Jobs at Hastings Direct

Lead commercial execution for third-party claims, driving data-led trading improvements, managing supplier contracts and commercial performance, mitigating risk, and coaching junior team members to optimise indemnity spend.

Lead a team of Risk Pricing Analysts to improve risk pricing models, integrate new data and techniques, run pricing projects, develop pricing tools, coach analysts, and ensure fair customer outcomes and regulatory training compliance.

The Senior Data Scientist will build predictive models, optimize pricing strategies, engage with stakeholders, and drive innovation in data analytics at Hastings Direct.

The Pricing Manager will oversee a team of analysts to drive value through data insights in multi-product households, collaborating across departments to implement strategies that benefit customers.

The Risk Pricing Manager will develop and optimize pricing strategies for multicar and multiple product households, ensuring profit growth and effective risk assessment. Key responsibilities include enhancing pricing models, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and improving customer outcomes through data-driven insights.

The Footprint Manager analyzes portfolio risk, collaborates with pricing and underwriting teams, and provides insights to improve pricing strategies and model effectiveness.

Lead development and deployment of predictive pricing models and rating factors for insurance. Identify, analyse and monetise new data sources, build ML solutions from EDA to production, and work cross-functionally to deliver commercial outcomes and maintain model performance post-deployment.

Responsible for leading quality assurance across underwriting lines, improving testing strategies with automation, and mentoring QA teams to enhance delivery quality and efficiency.

The Pricing Manager will optimize and develop pricing strategies using data analysis, ensure compliance, and provide insights to management.

Lead development and optimisation of telematics-driven pricing models. Use telematics data to influence pricing, manage risk spread, reduce customer prices, collaborate with stakeholders, document governance, and manage a small team of analysts while exploring new modelling techniques and data sources.

The Java Developer will create new features for policy administration and claims handling, while also integrating new systems and documenting work according to standards.

Research and analyse evolving vehicle technology and UK car parc data to inform vehicle underwriting decisions. Develop data-driven insights, propose terms/excess rules, collaborate cross-functionally, and communicate statistical findings to stakeholders using analytical tools.

Lead QA insight, reporting and automation strategy for a regulated insurance business. Define governance, interpretation standards and requirements for QA reporting, drive risk-based assurance and targeting, identify automation and AI/text/speech analytics opportunities, and provide senior strategic QA leadership to improve customer outcome monitoring and assurance effectiveness.

Lead BAU and strategic pricing implementation projects: gather requirements, design optimized solutions, develop and test pricing algorithms (Python/SQL), manage pre-release activities, document pipelines, provide data-driven insights, mentor and recruit pricing engineers, and drive process improvements.

Design, build and deploy machine learning models and novel telematics-based features to predict claims, fraud and risk KPIs. Collaborate with ML Engineers to productionize and monitor models, present findings to commercial and operational stakeholders, and contribute to team best practices and technology exploration.

As a Data Scientist, you will develop ML models for predicting claims and risk, deploy solutions, monitor performance, and present insights.