An excellent opportunity has arisen here at Aviva Personal Lines Underwriting (PLU) for a Lifestyle Pricing Consultant.

This role will provide you with an outstanding oversight of our business with the opportunity to engage with various stakeholders and to become a specialist in specific areas of pricing.

You would be working in a flexible environment with constant support on hand from members of the team who take pride in developing their colleagues!

What is Lifestyle PLU?

The Personal Lines Underwriting team (PLU) look after the pricing and underwriting for Aviva’s insurance products in the UK. This is mainly for the Travel, Mobile Phone, Creditor and Personal Accident products, but we’re continually looking to adapt to a changing world.

We use cutting edge analytical techniques to give customers a price and product they are satisfied with. This requires keen and detailed insight, expert risk management and collaboration with different teamwork. We have a huge range of skills and experience, and we’re keen to continue diversifying with people who think and see the world differently to make us stronger. We’re giving you the chance to create a real difference for the customers of the UK’s largest insurer.

Our people are responsible for building sophisticated models to assess risk and generate suitable prices for customers. Their work ranges from analysing new statistical models, building pricing structures, programming (SQL), creating reporting suites and creating suitable algorithms for new propositions. Communicating complex ideas simply and analysing a changing market are also essential if we are to succeed as a team.

Key Responsibilities

On a daily basis you’ll be providing analysis-based pricing recommendations or underwriting decisions to help deliver continual improvement to the accounts you’re working on and improving the customer experience. You will be central to the latest innovations, which support product development to grow sustainably. You will also work closely with colleagues from across the business to identify the right opportunities to achieve profitable growth and deliver the right outcomes for our customers.

Knowledge and Skills

We are looking for individuals with a wide variety of skills, behaviours and levels of experience. If you have all, or even some of the following we want to talk to you.

• Strong analytical, numerical and problem-solving skills

• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Attention to detail and ability to sense-check your work

• Ability to manage and prioritise given workload with business objectives

• Enthusiasm, self-confidence and an ability to learn and develop

• Degree in an analytical discipline or relevant qualifications (such as CII)

• Intermediate Excel skills

• Programming skills such as SQL, R or Python

• Strong stakeholder management

• Ability to work under pressure, both in isolation and with other areas of the business

What you will get

• Salary of between £24,000 and £30,000 depending on experienc

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow!

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues.

We want people who speak up, who take responsibility, and who make good decisions!

The way we do this is important too. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Ben Parker a call on 07833 239394 or send an email to ben.parker@aviva.com

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform