Head of Actuarial Market Trading

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Would you like to work for one of the UK’s leading Pet Insurance companies?

If so, you might be interested in our new Head of Actuarial Market Trading role working within our growing Pricing Team

Package: £100,000 per annum depending on experience, with excellent benefits

Location: We are flexible on the location for this role, it can be based fully remote in the UK (including a streamlined remote on-boarding process), hybrid or based within our office in Amesbury.

What you’ll get up to as Head of Actuarial Market Trading

As Head of Actuarial Market Trading, you will play a pivotal role in driving short‑term tactical pricing and trading decisions through close monitoring of market positions, competitor behaviour and portfolio performance. You will own pricing input into product selection, distribution and marketing strategy, translating technical, behavioural and commercial insight into clear target street prices and decision guardrails. The role will provide critical pricing support to FP&A, including ownership of the pricing technical account view, integration of forecast narratives, and delivery of executive‑level and monthly performance reporting across pricing and trading.

Working cross‑functionally, you will lead the continuous delivery of pricing and commercial change, ensuring agreed pricing and underwriting decisions are translated into clear rating engine requirements and technical change plans. You will support the development and governance of inflation assumptions, reserving‑for‑pricing, underwriting and loss‑ratio forecasting, reinsurance reporting, and behavioural and lifetime value models, producing high‑quality MI to support pricing decisions. The role also includes ownership of pricing decision forums and rate change approvals from a pricing perspective, line management of a small team of market analysts, and full compliance with FCA Conduct Rules.

What we look for in you

• Actuarial or pricing qualification (or equivalent experience) with strong insurance pricing expertise
• Solid grounding in technical pricing, reserving, forecasting and behavioural/customer modelling
• Experience in price optimisation, rate setting, fair value decision‑making and tactical trading
• Strong understanding of market dynamics, distribution economics and regulatory/customer outcomes
• Comfortable translating insight into clear MI, executive reporting and pricing decisions
• Experience with rating engines, pricing system change and end‑to‑end delivery
• Strong commercial judgement, balanced with analytical rigour and evidence‑based decision‑making
• Proven ability to lead stakeholders, own forums and communicate clearly at executive level
• Confident operating across strategy and hands‑on execution in a fast‑moving environment
• Able to drive change, remove blockers and convert ambiguity into action
• A collaborative leader who coaches others, encourages innovation and continuous improvement
• Operates with a strong risk, control and conduct mindset, escalating issues when required

Benefits of working with Animal Friends

We recognise that your hard work shouldn’t come without its perks, so here’s a little list of some of the things you can expect to get from us:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and we give you your birthday off
• 95% of our employee’s own pets, we’re able to provide up to 50% off insurance along with free access to our Vet consultation app JOII
• We believe looking after employees’ health is important, so we offer discount on gym membership, access to a Wellbeing hub, a health care cash plan and private medical insurance
• We like to celebrate success and recognise excellent employee performance; we will donate £3k to the charity of our employee of the quarter’s choice
• Most importantly, you`ll be working within a courageous, passionate and kind-hearted team

What Animal Friends is all about!

A large part of our success is due to our company values which are the foundation of how we work, we are courageous by continually looking for new ways to innovate our customers experience and the pet insurance industry. We are kind-hearted with animal welfare being important to us, we donate and support over 300 charities across the UK and worldwide, to date, we have donated over £5.5 million. And we are passionate about the support we provide to our customers helping them care for their pets.

Animal Friends Pet Insurance Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, religions, and sexual orientations. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

We offer accessibility help with application forms which is available via the jobs page of our website.

As an FCA regulated business, we require successful applicants to clear our pre-employment screening process which includes a credit check and references checks. Under the latest UK Right to Work regulations, we will require successful applicants to evidence their right to work in the UK, either in person, online, or digitally via a third party subject to circumstances.

Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled rather than the advertised closing date. Interviews will take place throughout this period; therefore, we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.