Job Description:
Head of Underwriting and Pricing
Full time (37.5hrs per week)
Hybrid Working Options
Dublin, Ireland
Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.
Role Overview
The Head of Pricing and Underwriting for Bupa Global DAC is responsible for managing pricing and underwriting for business. The role holder will work closely with the Executives as well as with the wider the Bupa Global Pricing Function.
The role holder will fulfil the Central Bank of Ireland regulatory requirements for PCF-18 Head of Underwriting and be subject to associated regulatory requirements such as the Senior Executive Accountability Regime, Individual Accountability Framework Conduct Standards and Fitness and Probity Standards.
You’ll help us make health happen by:
1. Business partnering to CEO, Finance Director and Sales Director in terms of participation in all commercial pricing decisions and proactive support for wider commercial initiatives.
2. Chair the Underwriting and Pricing Committee and be a member of the Executive Committee.
3. Identifying financial performance issues related to premiums within Bupa and institute relevant corrective actions.
4. Actively being involved in the setting of the annual operating plan for Bupa with explicit co-ownership of key assumptions regarding customer volumes, revenue, and loss ratios.
5. Ensuring that all reports and deliveries are compliant with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries ‘Technical Actuarial Standards.
6. Representing the Pricing and Underwriting team in core governance committees and meetings as appropriate (including In Life, New Product Pricing Committee).
7. Delivering market leading pricing and underwriting solutions by applying strategic thinking and creative problem solving.
8. Communicating complex issues simply and clearly to all levels of the organisation.
Key Skills needed for this role:
9. Experience of making change happen (ideas into actions into results)
10. Ability to work with ambiguity and uncertainty –often driven by incomplete / uncertain data
11. A proactive mindset, challenging requirements, seeing things from a customer angle and exploring new directions from results of analyses
12. Strong communication and influencing skills and experience in presenting complex issues simply and clearly
13. Excellent in presenting all types of information including complex data and strategic recommendations at all levels of an organisation
14. Proven success in influencing at Director levels and achieving change in a complex business
15. Experience of managing a demanding workload and tight deadlines
16. Excellent planning and organisational skills and project management experience
17. Experience of insurance pricing
18. Experience of general insurance or health insurance
19. Experience of commercial decision making
20. An appreciation of actuarial, medical and statistical issues relating to pricing
Bupa
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.