Group Head of Property Pricing

Full-time employee role based in New York, NY with a hybrid work arrangement.

Salary range: $210,000–$315,000. Actual offer will reflect role complexity, location, and candidate’s education and experience.

About the role

This position provides leadership in developing and implementing the Group Property technical pricing framework, ensuring alignment with Group Pricing Standards and return-on-capital objectives. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders, lead an offshore team, and drive pricing transformation initiatives to enhance portfolio management and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight to ensure the Group Property technical pricing framework is delivered consistently across divisions, aligned with Group Pricing Standards and return-on-capital objectives.
• Develop and maintain the Group Property technical pricing framework, emphasizing technical pricing quality and confidence in rate adequacy as a strategic enabler for portfolio management.
• Lead and develop an offshore team responsible for sourcing, transforming, and validating divisional data, and for building non-Catastrophe Property peril models in collaboration with divisional pricing teams.
• Work closely with the Catastrophe Modelling team to integrate Cat model outputs, including allocated reinsurance and capital costs, to produce a comprehensive total technical price.
• Oversee deployment of pricing tools into underwriting workflows, ensuring solutions meet underwriter requirements and support risk selection and pricing decisions.
• Monitor and challenge pricing performance, including rate change and adequacy, and provide actionable insights to support portfolio optimization and profitability targets.
• Collaborate with underwriting, portfolio management, product committee, and claims to improve data quality, enhance pricing insight, and ensure consistent application of technical pricing.
• Represent the global pricing community in Property product committees and provide technical expertise to support data-driven decisions.
• Contribute to pricing transformation initiatives, including tool enhancement, infrastructure improvements, and adoption of new methodologies and technologies.
• Engage with the global pricing community to align Group and Divisional teams, balancing standardization with local market requirements and divisional needs.
• Lead the ongoing evolution of the Property pricing operating model, including prioritization, delivery cadence, and alignment across Group, offshore, and divisional pricing teams.

Requirements

• Strong experience in insurance pricing, with a focus on Property or Specialty lines, ideally within commercial or large corporate portfolios.
• Deep understanding of end-to-end pricing, including model development, deployment, and ongoing performance monitoring.
• Experience working with pricing tools and integrating models into underwriting systems and workflows.
• Exposure to global or cross-regional pricing initiatives, with an appreciation of balancing standardization and local market requirements.
• Commercially minded with the ability to challenge and influence stakeholders, balancing technical rigor with practical decision-making.
• Collaborative approach, with experience working across underwriting, portfolio management, and data teams to drive consistent and effective pricing outcomes.

Qualifications

• Relevant industry qualifications.
• Qualified Actuary with extensive business experience working as a Pricing Actuary.
• Preferred work experience includes delivering pricing tools and developing leading-edge pricing techniques.

Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangement (mix of home and office).
• 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender-equal basis.
• Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%.
• Well-being program including holistic wellbeing coaching, gym membership, confidential counseling, and financial/legal advice.
• Tuition reimbursement for professional certifications and continuing education.
• Employee networks and community initiatives.

Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Coaching for success
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Influencing
• Intentional collaboration
• Managing performance
• Navigating ambiguity
• Portfolio Management
• Price Modelling
• Pricing Strategies
• Risk Management
• Strategic Thinking
• Team Management
• Working Independently