Lead Pricing Analyst

Job Description

Lead Pricing Analyst

• Lead and influence pricing development – take ownership of complex analyses, refine models, and guide junior colleagues to build technical capability across the team.


• Deliver real impact across the pricing lifecycle, shape model design, improve rating logic, and contribute to decisions that drive business outcomes. Use your expertise to contribute to NFU Mutual’s largest transformation programme.

• Hybrid role with 80% homeworking and 20% in Stratford-upon-Avon.

About the role

Working in Pricing at NFU Mutual feels genuinely different. With a clear focus on customers rather than shareholders, the team’s work has real impact, supporting local communities, protecting livelihoods, and helping our UK‑wide Agency Network deliver exceptional service. Our Pricing team is central to how we support our customers, and its role is becoming even more crucial. The team is now at the heart of one of NFU Mutual’s most significant transformation programmes, shaping how pricing will operate in the future to ensure fair, insight‑driven outcomes.

To deliver this transformation, the team is expanding and creating exciting opportunities to join at a pivotal moment. This is a rare chance to influence a high‑profile, business‑wide initiative where your work will be visible, valued and acted on. By working closely with colleagues across the business, you’ll play an important role in shaping NFU Mutual’s future. Beyond the transformation, you’ll join a Pricing team committed to continuous improvement, offering ongoing opportunities to grow, add value and make a real difference. If you want to drive meaningful transformation while developing your own career, now is the ideal time to join us.

We are seeking a Lead Pricing Analyst to join our Pricing function, responsible for developing and delivering pricing models and analyses. This role blends technical expertise with coaching, stakeholder engagement, and project management. You will conduct complex pricing analyses, enhance models and rating algorithms, and ensure rigorous quality control. The role also involves clearly communicating findings to support business decisions, coaching team members to strengthen technical skills, and building effective working relationships with Underwriting and Pricing colleagues. Additionally, you will prepare detailed reports, implement process improvements, and independently lead projects to achieve agreed outcomes, all while contributing to the continuous development of high-quality pricing solutions.

About you

You will also bring

Essential:

• Track record of technical model development and end-to-end analysis.


• Strong numerical and analytical skills, including data cleaning and query writing (e.g., SQL, SAS, Python).


• Ability to communicate technical outputs clearly to a range of stakeholders.


• Experience coaching or mentoring junior colleagues and supporting team capability development.


• Proven ability to work independently, managing multiple projects or tasks concurrently.

Desirable:

• Experience in a pricing team.


• Experience building GLM loss cost or demand models in Emblem.


• Conducting one-way analyses, MI reviews, or variance analyses.


• Up-to-date knowledge of pricing best practice in general insurance.


• Experience in end-to-end pricing delivery, including cross-team collaboration.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

• Salary up to £40,000 depending on experience


• Annual bonus (up to 10% of salary)


• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution


• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme


• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities


• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets


• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs


• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more


• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance


• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year


• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme


• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary


• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.


• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for ten consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.