Pricing Practitioner - Darwin

Direct Line Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance firm in Manchester is seeking a professional to join their Pricing & Underwriting team. This role focuses on using data and technology to optimize pricing strategies. Candidates should have a strong grasp of general insurance pricing, proficiency in tools like Python and SQL, and an ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders. The position offers a hybrid work model and includes various employee benefits.

Benefits

50% off home, motor and pet insurance

Optional Health and Dental insurance

Up to 10% AIP Bonus

EV car scheme for leasing electric vehicles

Generous holidays

Buy as you earn share scheme

Employee discounts and cashback

Qualifications

• Commercially driven mindset for data-led decisions.
• Technical proficiency in data analysis tools.
• Understanding of end-to-end insurance pricing.
• Strong grasp of statistics and actuarial principles.
• Experience in communicating with senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of general insurance pricing.
• Problem-solving skills with actionable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Identify pricing opportunities across customer segments.
• Drive innovation in pricing with new features and tools.
• Monitor claims performance for accurate pricing.
• Build automated processes for operational effectiveness.

Skills

Data-led decision making

Python

SQL

Tableau

Statistics

Actuarial principles

Effective communication

Insurance pricing

Tools

Python

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Overview

This role sits at the heart of Darwin’s Pricing & Underwriting team, where you’ll help shape the future of insurance pricing with cutting-edge tools and a modern approach. We’ve built the kind of pricing infrastructure every pricing professional aspires to work with: a fast, flexible rating algorithm; Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) that enable fast, transparent, and controlled model development; and an operating model that gives complete autonomy to pricing professionals to dream up an idea and get it live.

If you're passionate about using data, tech, and creativity to push the boundaries of insurance pricing, we’d love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

• Identify pricing opportunities across customer segments and implement strategies to optimize profitability and market competitiveness.
• Drive innovation in pricing by developing and integrating new features, tools, and models to increase pricing sophistication.
• Monitor claims performance to ensure pricing remains accurately calibrated, responsive to inflation, and aligned with emerging trends.
• Build efficient, automated processes to enhance operational effectiveness and empower a high-performing, data-driven pricing team.

Our hybrid model offers a 'best of both worlds' approach. When you'll be in the office depends on your role and team, but colleagues spend at least 2 days a week in the office.

What you'll need

• Commercially driven mindset – you're motivated by delivering tangible business value through smart, data-led decisions.
• Technical proficiency – skilled in tools such as Python, SQL, Tableau, or similar, with the ability to extract insights from complex datasets.
• Pricing curiosity – a strong grasp of (or ambition to master) end-to-end insurance pricing, from data to deployment.
• Quantitative mindset – a solid foundation in statistics and actuarial principles, with the ability to apply them to real-world pricing challenges, including assessing second- and third-order effects to drive smarter, more sustainable decisions.
• Effective communicator – confident presenting ideas and insights to senior stakeholders across the business.
• Insurance industry knowledge – solid understanding of general insurance pricing, ideally with experience in motor insurance.
• Bias for action – a natural problem-solver who can break down complex ideas into clear, actionable steps, always keeping focus on delivering real, measurable outcomes.

Benefits

• 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus Green Flag breakdown cover
• Additional optional Health and Dental insurance
• Up to 10% AIP Bonus
• EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way
• Generous holidays
• Buy as you earn share scheme
• Employee discounts and cashback
• Plus, many more

Direct Line Group is an equal opportunity employer, and we think diversity of background and thinking is a big strength in our people. We're delighted to feature as one of the UK's Top 50 Inclusive Employers and are committed to making our business an inclusive place to work, where everyone can be themselves and succeed in their careers.

London, Glasgow, Leeds, Bristol, Manchester