Head of Pricing

As Head of Pricing, you will lead Apollo’s actuarial pricing function, setting its strategy and ensuring pricing plays an influential role in underwriting and portfolio decision-making across the business.

Reporting to the Chief Actuary, you will have overall leadership responsibility for a significant pricing function, leading through four senior pricing leaders responsible for specialist teams across the business.

This is a highly visible leadership role. You will set the direction for pricing at Apollo, develop and empower the senior pricing leadership team, and build strong relationships across underwriting, claims, actuarial and portfolio management. You will also represent the pricing function with senior stakeholders, the Board and relevant committees, ensuring technical pricing insight is translated into clear, commercially relevant decisions.

• →Set the strategy and direction for pricing across Apollo, ensuring the function is focused on the areas that create the greatest value for the business.
• →Build a strong and effective pricing leadership team, giving senior pricing leaders clear accountability and the autonomy to run their respective areas.
• →Strengthen the influence of pricing across the business, ensuring actuarial insight informs underwriting, portfolio and strategic decision-making.
• →Represent the pricing function at Board and committee level, communicating complex issues clearly and providing effective challenge and insight when decisions are being made.
• →Develop Apollo’s technical pricing capability, working with underwriting teams to ensure models, tools and approaches remain effective and aligned with Apollo’s Pricing Policy.
• →Shape the development of pricing MI and reporting, ensuring senior management and Lloyd’s have clear, relevant information to support decision-making.
• →Drive the continued evolution of the function, including exploring where AI can improve productivity, technical insight and reporting.

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• A qualified actuary with significant General Insurance pricing experience, ideally gained within the London Market or a similarly complex commercial insurance environment.
• Established leadership experience within a General Insurance pricing function, with responsibility for setting direction, developing senior colleagues and creating accountability across teams.
• Experience shaping pricing strategy and developing technical pricing capability across multiple products, portfolios or business areas.
• The credibility and communication skills to influence senior stakeholders, underwriters and actuarial colleagues, including at Board and committee level.
• Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to translate technical pricing insight into clear, practical business decisions.
• An ability to bring different teams and disciplines together, particularly across pricing, underwriting, claims and portfolio management.
• A forward-looking approach to pricing, including how technology and AI can improve capability, insight and ways of working.
• Sound judgement and integrity, with an understanding of the standards expected within a regulated insurance business.