Junior Risk Pricing Analyst

Risk Pricing Analyst

Company Overview:

​​​​We are an agile, data and digitally focused general insurance provider offering services across car, van, bike and home within UK insurance markets. We have strong relationships with all major price comparison websites, a cost-effective digital business model and a focus on customer retention. In short, we’re built for the way that customers buy general insurance, and we offer straightforward products and service.
It's our attitude and the way we run our business that makes us different. All of our actions are based on our 4Cs ways of working which means we focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community.​​​​​​​

Our Hastings strategy sets out our focus areas, goals and measures to achieve our vision of being the UK's best and biggest digital insurer. Central to our strategy is providing great value insurance in the most simple and straightforward way.

Day to day:

The successful candidate will be treated as a full-time graduate member of the team;

• Attend daily sub-team meetings where they can see the progress of other pricing projects
• Share any updates and get support and advice on their own projects that will be assigned to them.
• Under the instruction of a Senior Pricing Analyst, the successful candidate will take ownership of some of our day-to-day processes that enable us to trade competitively in the insurance markets, with the aim being to have completed a piece of pricing analysis that will have been approved and delivered into the live pricing algorithm, by the end of their internship.

Training and support:

The successful candidate will undergo the full induction that all one of our Graduate hires would, meaning coaching on the following before being deployed onto a mixture of task and project-based work;

• Insurance market principles
• Specifics on the markets that Hastings operate and trade within
• General pricing principles
• Data manipulation and analysis techniques
• Impact analysis & feedback implementation
• Underpinned by SQL and Python coaching

You will also have weekly 1:1 meetings with your manager who will also act as a mentor and regular check-ins with your early career colleagues to ensure you are getting the support you need.

What you’ll have:

However far we delve into the data, we feel it’s important to keep sight of the bigger picture; we’re looking for people who are comfortable and confident with numerical and statistical information, that are able to explain what they are seeing with a range of detail.

We want you to take the initiative, be accountable and honest for the approaches you take and most importantly be passionate about the work you do.

What we’d love you to have:

We’d love it if you knew your way around an analytical programming environment, whether that be Python, R, SQL or any other language/toolkit that you use to find solutions.

Whilst the technical skills to yield results are a vital element of your skillset, we get excited when we see you get excited, so we understand some people may not apply for roles unless they tick every box however if you are excited helping us achieve our goal of becoming UK’s best and biggest digital insurer we would love to hear from you.

At Hastings Direct, we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, we encourage you to be open with us. Our recruitment team is here to provide the support you need to ensure a fair and accessible experience for all.

Job posting end date:

17/04/2025