Market Pricing Actuary

We are currently recruiting for a Market Pricing Actuary for our Pricing & Underwriting Department.

Reporting to the Market Pricing Manager, your role will be to support the pricing function within AXA Ireland to achieve overall financial target for all classes of business / channels / territories written by AXA Ireland.

The ideal candidate will have a strong blend of technical, business acumen and communication skills, with the ability to work closely with stakeholders across the business to achieve AXA’s account priorities.

At AXA, diversity and inclusion means empowering people to be 100% themselves at work. At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, either at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

Responsibilities;

• Responsible for tactical-pricing performance of allocated account / product.

• Implement and maintain tactical pricing and premium optimisation routines to maximise portfolio value.

• Ensure that pricing actions are aligned to overall AXA account targets and strategic financial plan.

• Abide by AXA customer fairness expectations and all applicable regulations.

• Makes pricing recommendations to ensure profitability, and effectively communicates these recommendations to the business.

• Monitor performance of rating actions and overall account KPIs against expectations and identify solutions as required.

• Assist with mentoring, leading and developing more junior staff.

• Represents Pricing team on cross-functional projects within AXA Ireland.

• Participate in projects between pricing departments in other AXA entities.

• Is flexible within the role and prepared to undertake other duties as assigned by line manager from time to time.

• Will have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in actuarial / pricing / data science related work. Experience in non-life personal lines pricing is preferred.

• Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland or equivalent body or data science background with demonstrated commercial acumen.

• Highly motivated individual with a proven track record of delivering work with a high level of quality, and within agreed timescales.

• Excellent understanding of Market Pricing processes; propensity modelling, price elasticity, premium optimisation, fair pricing, account management etc.

• High level of competency in SAS, R and/or other programming language.

• High level of competency in Microsoft Office suite.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to work collaboratively with others and influence at all levels of the organisation.

• Awareness of the overall compliance to Health & Safety, IT Security and all legislation/compliance in Actuarial function.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorized to work in Ireland and/or the United Kingdom.

This recruitment campaign may be used to support permanent, temporary and/or extension for any upcoming similar positions within the next 6 months.

Would you like to wake up every day driven and inspired by our noble mission and to work together as one global team to empower people to live a better life? Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry. We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things.
In a fast-evolving world and with a presence in 64 countries, our 166,000 employees and exclusive distributors anticipate change to offer services and solutions tailored to the current and future needs of our 103 million customers.

Proud to be part of the AXA Group, at AXA Ireland our values are at the heart of everything we do. We work together as One AXA, embracing our differences to make our teams great. We believe integrity, courage and our customer-first approach is what makes us a great place to work. AXA is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from across all communities.

One of the best things about joining AXA is our rewards package. At AXA Ireland, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package reflects that. You can expect to receive:

•    Competitive salary with annual review
•    Annual company & performance-based bonus
•    Contributory pension scheme (up to 10% employer contributions)
•    Life Assurance
•    Generous annual leave plus Bank Holidays
•    AXA employee discounts
•    Education support and plenty of learning opportunities.

AXA is proud to support the needs of our employees and as such understands everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities. We are therefore happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, should this be a requirement for you.

At AXA, we want to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for and to achieve this ambition, we need the best talent to come and work for us. We look for candidates with the right skills and values to join us and selection is based on a fair and equal process. As a financial services company, all successful candidates will require employment checks, so we can ensure regulatory compliance.

We’re proud to be committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all backgrounds. 

AXA Ireland dac consider applicants on the basis of skills, experience & qualifications and without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, disability or any other legally protected status.