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D&G (Domestic & General) is an ambitious data and technology-powered business. Customer, Business and People Data are essential, to build trust in critical data to make better, faster decisions.
About the role
We are looking for a versatile Pricing manager to lead a team of data scientist and analysts to deliver business and customer value through the use of cutting-edge techniques. Spotting opportunities and working across multiple areas of the business to help us deliver the key business goals. This person will have the ability to manage a team of highly technical individuals, as well as strategically deliver business projects across areas such as pricing optimisation, model performance evaluation, pricing related business indicators and adhoc analysis.
Responsibilities
- Be a key contributor to the pricing strategy across multiple business areas.
- Lead a team of data scientists and analysts to achieve the business’ objectives across multiple use cases such as pricing optimisation, models and analysis.
- Influence the evolution and continuous improvement of the company’s predictive modelling and machine learning techniques to deliver high impact solutions.
- Work as part of companywide collaborative squads, ensuring data driven decisions, with the use of predictive analytics.
- Be able to analyse, communicate and explain data science use across multiple projects in a way that will influence key stakeholders from across the business.
- Where necessary monitor performance, profitability, and competitor behaviour to help hit business targets.
- Ensure that recommendations result in customers being treated fairly.
- Be an advocate for data driven decisions and decision science across internal and external stakeholders, being a thought leader for decision science.
Requirements
- Excellent relationship management.
- Innovative and pragmatic problem solver.
- Find opportunities to enhance the business through data and data science practices.
- In-depth statistical skills, with the ability to criticise, review and sign-off models to then be deployed live.
- Ability to translate between both technical and non-technical colleagues and become a bridge between more traditional areas of business, driving them to be more sophisticated.
- Understanding and ability to actively implement statistical tests and analyses, scripting, and automation techniques for efficient model implementations.
- Use of AWS or Databricks to help guide the team in building pipelines and models for data science, ensuring best practices.
- Excellent at data wrangling and ability to analyse data where required.
- Ability to understand multiple domains and how to implement data science into them.
- Strong understanding of domains such as pricing and statistics as well as the key drivers of performance within the financial services sector.
- Data driven, customer level strategic decision/data science techniques.
- Proficient in Machine Learning models.
- Experience managing teams.
We offer lots of great benefits! Some of which include:
- Competitive salary and annual discretionary bonus
- 25 days annual leave plus bank/public holidays, as well as an annual option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave
- Training opportunities as well as clearly defined career progression
- Health cash plan – employer funded cover to enable you to claim money back on essential healthcare costs, including dental, optical, physiotherapy and many more. Cover also includes unlimited access to a 24/7 virtual GP service
- Attractive company pension scheme
- Life assurance – employer funded cover of 4x basic salary
- Dedicated online benefit portal offering access to saving and lending facilities, financial wellbeing and support services
- Salary Finance – access to savings and borrowing through payroll
- Car Leasing – access to a carbon neutral salary sacrifice car leasing scheme, with an all-inclusive monthly cost covering all charge, taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance on a range of brand new vehicles
- Travel Loans – interest free loans to help spread the cost of annual travel tickets
- Cycle to Work – tax efficient bike and cycling equipment worth up to £1,000
- Health & Wellbeing – discounted gym membership, online virtual workout sessions, online culinary classes
- OnHand – Giving you the opportunity to be an Eco & Social volunteer via a handy app. Volunteer individually or in groups to get involved in Youth Mentoring, Food Poverty, Homelessness & Elderly help
- Employee Assistance Programme – specialist advice and support on issues such as finance, relationships, illness and family issues
- Free Domestic & General protection plan – one free plan each year with access to discounted rates of up to 50% on additional plans, including referrals for family and friends
- Employee discounts – access to discounted Sky TV and broadband packages, together with a range of discounts for 100s of online and high street retailers
Domestic & General are an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.
Please note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes criminal record checks.
At Domestic & General, we are proud of our 100-year legacy and excited about our future growth plans. We are expanding our horizons, entering new markets and territories internationally and we need your expertise to help us on the journey.
