Jobs at Hastings Direct

Own UK corporate tax compliance, reporting, tax calculations, tax authority enquiries, and advisory projects including transfer pricing, financing, restructurings, and controlled foreign companies. Improve and automate tax processes using Workday Financials and Copilot, support tax risk mitigation, manage auditors, and lead the development of a tax graduate while advising business teams and external stakeholders.

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.

Leads a team of Data Scientists and shapes data science strategy across the insurance business. Develops and deploys machine learning, statistical, and predictive models across the full lifecycle, including experimentation, production deployment, monitoring, and optimization. Partners with engineering, technology, and senior stakeholders to identify commercial opportunities, evaluate data sources, govern models, and translate technical outputs into actionable business insights.

Design and develop scalable email design systems, responsive email templates, reusable components, patterns, and documentation for CRM, lifecycle, promotional, service, and transactional communications. Ensure work follows brand standards, accessibility requirements, email client constraints, and modern design-system practices. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams while applying expertise in Figma, visual design, HTML email considerations, and CRM or marketing automation platforms.

Owns claims product prioritization, user stories, acceptance criteria, testing, backlog management, sprint planning, and delivery of transformation initiatives. The role partners with business stakeholders, delivery leads, and project teams, documents and communicates requirements, supports operational acceptance testing, and develops expertise in the Guidewire platform. It requires Agile experience, systems process design knowledge, multitasking across projects, and the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.

Supports motor claims commercial strategy by analyzing claims inflation, market movements, performance trends, and claims behavior. The role develops management information and data visualizations, engages internal and external experts, monitors claims performance, identifies emerging risks, and supports initiatives to improve claims outcomes. Strong analytical, commercial, claims-management, insurance-pricing, and stakeholder collaboration skills are required.

Develop and optimise personal-loan pricing and trading strategies, automate pricing execution, identify pricing factors with modelling teams, and maintain management information for performance monitoring. The role provides analysis to senior leadership, supports regulatory compliance and fair customer outcomes, and acts as a commercial subject-matter expert while guiding supporting analysts. Strong SQL and experience with price comparison websites and risk-based lending pricing are essential.

Lead strategic market-modeling projects from discovery through live pricing implementation. Develop and improve advanced statistical and machine-learning models, ensure model governance and fair customer outcomes, and collaborate with pricing, underwriting, data, and ML engineering teams. The role also involves autonomous project management, coaching junior colleagues, communicating complex analysis clearly, and identifying opportunities to improve model accuracy, competitiveness, profitability, and growth.

Leads the development, deployment, governance, and optimisation of motor insurance risk pricing models and strategies. Oversees statistical and machine learning modelling, pricing performance monitoring, regulatory compliance, and end-to-end pricing initiatives. Partners with underwriting, finance, retail, and analytics teams while communicating recommendations to senior leadership. Manages and develops pricing managers and analysts, providing technical guidance, coaching, and career support.

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

Owns end-to-end digital experimentation and conversion optimisation, including roadmap management, hypothesis development, test planning, stakeholder sign-off, measurement, analysis, and recommendations. The role uses qualitative and quantitative data, user research, web analytics, competitor insights, and A/B testing to improve ecommerce journeys, support new propositions and MVPs, and drive commercial performance.

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 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.

Build and maintain machine learning pipelines for market pricing, productionise Python models and data science workflows, and improve testing, deployment, monitoring, versioning, documentation, and governance. Investigate data, model, and pipeline issues; automate manual processes; and collaborate with Pricing, Data Science, Data Engineering, ML Engineering, and governance teams in a regulated environment.

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.

Lead end-to-end pricing analysis and deployment for alternative pricing; explore new datasets, propose pricing changes, monitor performance metrics, and support junior analysts. Innovate pricing solutions using SQL and Python to improve risk assessment and profitability in UK motor insurance.