Senior Actuarial Manager

The Actuary; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading group insurer in the UK is seeking a Senior Pricing Manager to oversee critical pricing frameworks. This visible role involves leading pricing reviews, monitoring trends, and ensuring robust governance. The ideal candidate is a qualified actuary with strong pricing experience, the ability to influence stakeholders, and a collaborative leadership style. This position offers the chance to shape strategy across group protection products within a well-regarded organization.

Qualifications

• Qualified actuary with strong post-qualification experience in insurance pricing.
• Experience in life and/or health insurance; group protection experience is beneficial.
• Solid knowledge of pricing methodologies and experience analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end pricing reviews across multiple group protection products.
• Own the monitoring of emerging experience, market and risk trends.
• Deliver annual investigations on claims experience and investment yield assumptions.
• Maintain strong pricing governance and controls.

Skills

Insurance pricing

Experience analysis

Stakeholder communication

Team management

Leadership

Education

Qualified actuary

Job description

Overview

Eames is partnering with a leading group insurer to appoint a Senior Pricing Manager on a fixed-term basis, covering a critical senior pricing role. This position offers significant visibility across the business, ownership of core pricing frameworks, and the chance to shape strategy across a broad group protection portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end pricing reviews across multiple group protection products, including experience analysis, assumption setting and peer/risk review oversight.
• Own the monitoring of emerging experience, market and risk trends, recommending pricing and basis changes in line with risk appetite.
• Deliver annual investigations covering claims experience, expenses, cost of capital and investment yield assumptions.
• Maintain strong pricing governance and controls, ensuring robustness, transparency and regulatory alignment (including Consumer Duty and fair value considerations).
• Act as a senior pricing representative at governance committees, preparing high-quality papers and presenting recommendations to executive audiences.
• Manage risk exposure across the portfolio, including accumulation and overseas lives.
• Line manage and mentor actuarial students and newly qualified actuaries, supporting both technical development and career progression.
• Drive continuous improvement in pricing processes, tools and ways of working.
• Build and maintain close working relationships with Financial Underwriting, Distribution, Marketing and other key partners.

About you

• Qualified actuary with strong post-qualification experience in insurance pricing.
• Background in life and/or health insurance; group protection experience beneficial but not essential.
• Solid technical grounding, with experience of experience analysis and pricing methodologies (GLM knowledge an advantage).
• Confident communicator, comfortable influencing senior stakeholders and contributing at committee level.
• Proven people manager with a collaborative leadership style and a passion for developing talent.
• Commercially minded, with the ability to balance technical rigour, risk management and customer outcomes.

This is an excellent opportunity for a senior pricing actuary looking to step into a visible leadership role, influence business-critical decisions, and gain exposure at the highest levels of a well-regarded insurer.

Eames Consulting is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.