Head of RSA Pricing & Price-to-Market

Allianz Partners is looking for a visionary pricing leader to shape the future of RSA pricing worldwide. As Senior Lead for RSA Pricing & Rating Engine Solutions, you will be the technical architect behind our global pricing strategy, driving innovation, advancing modelling capabilities, and building next‑generation rating engines for a highly diverse, multi‑market portfolio.

This is a strategic, high‑impact role, with direct visibility to executive stakeholders and a mandate to set the global direction for RSA pricing. Working closely with the dedicated RSA Data Team, you’ll focus on pricing intelligence: transforming external data ecosystems into competitive advantage, elevating modelling sophistication, and ensuring Allianz Partners remains a global leader in RSA risk pricing.

You will lead a team of 8+ pricing experts across markets, develop our modelling capability, and embed a culture of analytical excellence, innovation, and commercial impact.

What you do

Global Pricing Strategy & Market Positioning

• Own and define the global pricing strategy across all RSA products and geographies.
• Translate portfolio intelligence, market dynamics, and technical insights into competitive, sustainable tariffs.
• Lead technical competitor benchmarking to sharpen our market positioning.
• Collaborate with Regional Underwriting & Portfolio teams to align pricing with appetite, profitability targets, and commercial goals.
• Support RSA Smart Circle reviews and planning cycles, delivering clear and actionable pricing insights.
• Identify under‑/over‑priced segments and recommend corrective pricing actions that drive profitable growth.

Rating Engine Development & Advanced Modelling

• Lead the design, development, and continuous evolution of RSA rating engines using WTW Radar, Emblem, and other actuarial platforms.
• Apply GLMs, GBMs, Random Forests, neural networks, and clustering methodologies to model frequency, severity, segmentation, and rate relativities.
• Implement profit testing across the full P&L to ensure tariff adequacy.
• Uphold rigorous actuarial governance through model documentation, peer reviews, and version control.

External Data, Platforms & Pricing Innovation

• Identify and integrate high‑value external data sources: telematics, geo‑spatial/climate risk, socio-demo, medical cost data, claims benchmarks.
• Explore and evaluate AI-driven pricing ecosystems and emerging actuarial technologies.
• Co‑develop data requirements with the RSA Data team, ensuring pricing‑grade pipelines and granularity.
• Promote use of open‑source tools (Python, R), cloud ML platforms, and flexible modelling frameworks.
• Assess connected insurance capabilities, including IoT, real-time risk scoring, and embedded pricing APIs.

Tariff Implementation & Pricing Governance

• Manage the full tariff lifecycle from data preparation through modelling, rate sign-off, testing, and deployment.
• Establish global pricing governance standards, validation processes, and change management practices.
• Drive a centralised tariff review calendar aligned with performance cycles and market conditions.
• Partner with IT, Operations, and regional teams to ensure smooth deployment into systems.

Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead, coach, and inspire a global team of 8+ pricing professionals.
• Build modelling and data‑driven pricing capability across markets through training and knowledge-sharing.
• Foster a culture rooted in analytical rigour, innovation, and commercial focus.
• Support long-term talent development and succession planning within the RSA pricing community.

What you will bring

Experience & Background

• 10+ years in pricing, actuarial, or underwriting roles within P&C, assistance, or travel insurance.
• At least 3 years leading a pricing function with international team management.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying rating engines (Radar, Emblem, or equivalent).
• Proven track record integrating external datasets and third-party platforms into production models.
• Experience presenting pricing strategy to CRO, CFO, or Board-level stakeholders.

Technical & Modelling Skills

• Expert in GLM development and strong command of ML techniques (GBMs, Random Forests, neural networks).
• Advanced proficiency with WTW Radar and/or Emblem.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or R; familiarity with cloud ML platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with geo-spatial data, climate risk datasets, medical cost indices, telematics, and open APIs.
• Sound understanding of pricing optimisation, elasticity, CLV, and actuarial concepts such as profit testing and reinsurance structures.

Education

• Degree in Actuarial Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Economics, or similar field.
• Actuarial qualification (FIA, FCAS, or equivalent) or progress toward one is a strong plus.

What we offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey. We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

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Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.  

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust. 

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations. 

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Note: Having different strengths, experiences, perspectives and approaches is an integral part of Allianz‘ company culture. One means to achieve this is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.