Principal Pricing Development Analyst

Job Description

Principal Pricing Development Analyst

• Play a key role shaping pricing models and influencing business decisions within NFU Mutual’s Pricing Development teams
• Work across our full pricing lifecycle with opportunities to develop your expertise and mentor others
• Hybrid working on offer – spend up to 80% of your time working from home, with 20% of your time spent working at our Head Office 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.

As a Principal Pricing Development Analyst, you’ll take on a key technical position within our Head Office Pricing division, helping to drive innovation, explore new techniques and improve pricing performance.

Sitting within our Pricing Development team of around eight specialists, you’ll complete behavioural modelling, and research, development and innovation tasks across the full pricing lifecycle, acting as a technical expert, supporting the development and implementation of new pricing models and rating approaches that directly influence business outcomes.

You’ll design, build and continually improve models and analytics, using advanced statistical techniques and data science methods. At the same time, you’ll take ownership of model performance and monitoring, as well as quality control processes and data integrity, ensuring outputs remain accurate, compliant and effective for decision making.

This role will be aligned to our Stratford-upon-Avon offices – with the expectation that you will spend 20% of your time onsite, and up to 80% working from home.

About you

You’re an experienced Data Science and/or Modelling professional with strong technical expertise (ideally within Pricing) and a track record of delivering high quality analytical solutions within a corporate environment such as Financial Services. You’re confident leading complex work, influencing stakeholders & peers, and supporting others to develop, showcasing your own strong, learning mindset

So, to join NFU Mutual, you’ll bring:
• Proven experience in pricing and/or data science modelling within a corporate setting (ideally Financial Services / Insurance)
• Strong technical capability in data analysis and modelling, including tools such as SQL, Python or R
• Experience designing and developing models and translating outputs into clear business insights
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence decision making
• A proactive approach to problem solving, innovation and continuous improvement
• Inquisitive and creative nature, matched with the ability to adapt successfully to a range of situations and problems

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

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary of circa £55,000 depending on skill set and experience


• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% 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 2026 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 eleven 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 Companies 2026 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.