Aviva’s Individual Protection business is going through a period of significant growth with ambitious plans in the market. The Pricing and Reinsurance team play a key role in helping the business achieve this growth. We are constantly striving to do things better and deliver commercial and customer benefits in a dynamic environment.  We are developing innovative and market-leading pricing strategies through price optimisation and strategic use of reinsurance and are looking to broaden our pool of expertise to deliver on our ambitions.

You’ll bring with you a strong knowledge of the Protection market through experience working in a pricing or commercial role with a major insurer or reinsurer.  You’ll have strong analytical skills enabling you to get up to speed quickly and add constructive challenge to our developments and projects.  Collaboration is key to our success and you will work alongside other teams including Data Science, Distribution, Propositions and Underwriting.  You’ll take full ownership of pricing/reinsurance recommendations which you will present at our decision-making forum and other governance channels.

You will be a senior member of a highly engaged team and will provide training and informal mentoring to Trainees and Analysts within the team.  You’ll work within our robust risk and control framework and always keep our customers front of mind.

We are looking for the following skills, experience and qualifications:

• Qualified/Nearly Qualified Actuary

• Experience working a in pricing, commercial or data science/experience analysis role with an insurer or reinsurer

• Innovative with the ability to develop and challenge our existing pricing/reinsurance approaches

• Self-motivated, organised and independent with a track record for delivering small-scale projects on target and on time

• Excellent communication skills with ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external partners

• Experience of cashflow modelling an advantage

• Strong Excel skills expected, proficiency in R/Python or similar data science coding language an advantage but not essential

What will you get for this role?

• A competitive salary depending on skills, experience and qualifications

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take responsibility, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Daniela Krol a call on 0121 234 7660 or send an email to daniela.krol@aviva.com 

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.