Senior Pricing Analyst

As a proud Kiwi-owned insurer, we pride ourselves in challenging status quo - and move fast to make things happen. We're here to create beautifully simple, rewarding experiences for our customers and communities, and we're working hard to protect the future of Aotearoa.

At its heart, insurance is about helping people through the unexpected. Doing what's right for our customers - especially in tough times - gives real purpose to our work.

**Your day-to-day would look like**

- Developing and maintaining pricing models using actuarial and statistical methods to support data-driven decision-making.
- Maintaining and optimizing data automation processes for Tower’s pricing and underwriting data.
- Monitoring portfolio performance and identifying pricing opportunities to enhance profitability and customer outcomes.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to align pricing strategies with broader business objectives.
- Leading pricing and rating projects or serving as the pricing lead in Agile squads to deliver enterprise-wide initiatives.
- Mentoring junior team members, offering technical guidance, conducting peer reviews, and sharing best practices.
- Writing, troubleshooting, and testing sophisticated code to support pricing and modelling functions.
- Managing data models, implementing risk controls, and ensuring robust testing governance and cross-team training.

**In your first 6-12 months, success will look like**:

- Establishing yourself as a go-to expert in pricing and rating, with strong stakeholder trust and engagement.
- Delivering enhancements to existing pricing models and contributing to the development of new ones.
- Improving automation and data workflows to increase efficiency and accuracy in pricing and underwriting.
- Identifying and executing pricing opportunities that positively impact portfolio performance and customer outcomes.
- Successfully leading or contributing to key pricing initiatives within Agile squads.
- Supporting the growth of junior team members through mentoring and technical leadership.
- Demonstrating strong coding capabilities and contributing to the robustness of pricing systems and governance frameworks.
- Embedding best practices across teams and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.

**To thrive in this role, you'll need**:

- A minimum of 4-5 years in a structured general insurance pricing role
- Progress toward actuarial certification preferred
- Prerequisite: Relevant tertiary qualification
- Desired: Tertiary qualification in either Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering or Mathematics
- Well versed in R (or Python).
- Geospatial skills in ArcGIS/QGIS would be a plus
- Exceptional analytical/data analysis skills
- Strong project management disciplines

**We invest in you.**

We're serious about looking after our people. Along with a competitive salary, we offer a bunch of perks and benefits to support you and celebrate the work you do:

- 26 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary carer and 4 weeks for partners
- A paid day off on your birthday, plus two extra annual leave days and the option to buy up to eight more
- Wellness leave - no need to justify your mental health day
- Career growth and internal progression opportunities
- Flexible working and a beautiful, modern office in Auckland
- Discounts on Tower insurance products
- Free life insurance (up to 4x your base salary)
- Retail discounts with top brands

**Ready to Apply?**

If this sounds like your kind of role, we'd love to hear from you.

We're looking for someone who's excited to help shape a new era of insurance - someone who's ready to make a real impact. If that's you, send us your CV and a cover letter that shows us what you're all about.