# Head of Pricing - Zego Insurance

**Company**: Zego Insurance
**Location**: Gibraltar
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Category**: Insurance
**Industry**: Insurance

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## Description

## Purpose of the Role

As Head of Pricing - Insurance at Zego, you will lead the insurer's technical view of the models that drive pricing. This includes actuarial risk models, demand and market models, and predictive models used for pricing and underwriting decisions.

## Key Responsibilities

- Lead the insurer's technical view across the full model landscape: actuarial risk models, demand models, market and optimisation models.

- Bring an actuarial view to all modelling approaches, including AI-driven models.

- Independently validate actuarial risk models, joining projects from the start and owning validation end-to-end.

- Review, validate, and challenge pricing and underwriting proposals across personal and commercial lines.

- Contribute to portfolio management and insights.

- Support the insurer's position with co-insurance partners.

- Mentor and coach junior actuarial colleagues.

- Help build processes, governance, and tooling, including AI.

## Requirements for Success

- Qualified actuary or equivalent track record with at least ten years of hands-on modelling experience.

- Deep experience with classic actuarial risk modelling: GLMs built in Emblem, Akur8, or equivalent, with practical Python experience.

- Exposure to newer modelling approaches, such as GBMs and machine learning methods.

- Experience with UK motor pricing and ideally other lines of business.

- Experience with newly launched portfolios or portfolios with limited history.

- Experience with telematics products and their pricing.

- Strong judgement on model trustworthiness.

- Comfort working in a small team with high influence and direct access to decision-making.

## What We Offer

- Market-competitive salary

- Annual performance bonus

- Share options

- Private medical insurance

- Pension, generous holiday, and £1,000 a year for transport or learning

- Cutting-edge systems and tools

## Skills

### Required
- actuarial risk modelling
- GLM
- GAM
- GBM
- machine learning
- Python
- UK motor pricing
- telematics products

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