Senior Pricing Governance Manager

Senior Pricing Governance Manager

Location – Leicester or Bexhill / Hybrid

Welcome to Hastings Direct – From our Group HR Director Pam Angel

We’re a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become The Best and Biggest in the UK market. We’ve made huge investments in our data and tech capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4Cs culture. We’re proud of the journey we’re on as a company and know that our continued success will rely on the contribution of our talented colleagues.

We provide insurance for over three million customers, but we know there’s even bigger opportunity out there. The fact you’re now reading this job advert means we’ve tempted you to find out more about #lifeatHD – we really hope you like what you see, and you’ll join us to share in the success of the exciting chapter that lies ahead.

Team overview

Our Retail Pricing team are responsible for developing and delivering Hastings’ street pricing strategy, which drives commercial performance whilst ensuring fair customer outcomes. Our team is made up of a diverse range of pricing, data science and analytics experts with experience from multiple industries.

A career in Pricing at Hastings will be varied! While the core of what we do is about giving our customers a fairer price by identifying opportunities to improve how we assess risk, it’s the way that we work that makes the job exciting. It’s essential for us to find new ideas and perspectives and that enables us to drive change – a real advantage of a career with us is that you will own and oversee projects from inception to launch.

You’ll need to have demonstrable experience in:

• Managing and developing a strong team of Pricing Governance Analysts and/or Senior Pricing Governance Analysts.
• Leading Risk Management within Pricing, including appropriate oversight for BAU and change activity. Ensuring risks are identified and assessed ensuring the appropriate level of oversight, documenting the required controls, ensuring Pricing staff at all levels are able to identify risks in their daily roles and help create a good risk and governance culture.
• Owning Fair Value Assessments and Regulatory Requirements, ensuring they are completed to a high standard and on a timely basis.
• Reviewing ad hoc data analysis to provide an understanding of risks faced and drive the closure of Risk events and other Governance related queries.
• Built strong relationships with departments outside pricing and other key stakeholders engaged in working with Pricing, ensuring that risk events and projects are completed smoothly and in a timely manner.

Essential skills we would love you to have:

• You are a strong communicator, and enjoy articulating problems concisely to key stakeholders at various levels.
• You have strong numerical skills to understand Pricing impacts and outcomes, and the ability to find creative solutions to support the business in the effective management of Risks and issues.
• You have a proactive mindset and ability to use initiative to identify and investigate areas of concern.
• You have a great understanding of various regulators’ expectations and industry trends

The interview process – Update as per interview requirements

Our interview process involves the below:

• Recruiter screening call
• 1st round – introduction call with hiring leader
• 2nd round – technical interview with hiring leader
• final round – introduction with hiring leaders leader

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive – what this means to you is if you’re applying for a job with us, you’ll have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment journey. We also welcome applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS).For more information on the DCS, please visit our inclusive business page on our careers website Diversity, inclusion, equality and fairness with Hastings Direct | Hastings Direct Careers

Regrettably we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

Benefits: in addition to a competitive salary and £5k car allowance you will also receive…

Flexible working - we champion a flexible hybrid working approach – please speak to your recruiter to discuss in more detail

Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus

Physical wellbeing – as a Band 4 colleague, Hastings pay for you to receive private medical Insurance (also known as PMI). This gives you flexibility and convenience to see a specialist or consultant and allows you to decide when and where you will be seen

Financial wellbeing – as well as providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%, we are proud to provide you with an award winning package which includes – discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support

Mental wellbeing programme – we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme available 24/7, our own in-house mental health first aiders, support groups and a dedicated team to make sure we are covering your needs

There’s more! – 27 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your weeks, access to our health care cash back plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, Cycle to work and tech schemes, discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year and much more ….

Join us and you’ll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community. As one of our colleagues, you’ll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we’ll give you all the support, training and development you need. Our 4Cs principles are simple: we believe by creating the right culture for our colleagues and giving them the right tools to do their job, we’ll deliver good outcomes for every customer, helping us to grow the company profitably and sustainably and allowing us to invest in the communities we serve.

Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status. Please also note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes credit and criminal record checks.

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