About the Role
Corporate Pension Solutions (CPS) is seeking a Pricing Director to lead end-to-end pricing for bulk purchase annuities and other de-risking solutions. This role offers exposure to a wide variety of projects and is crucial for meeting ambitious new business targets.
Responsibilities
- Leading end-to-end pricing for BPAs and other de-risking solutions
- Integrating commercial, investment, longevity, reinsurance, balance sheet management, and structuring workstreams into pricing projects
- Supporting senior stakeholders with technical analysis, strategy, business planning, and ad hoc queries
- Supporting distribution and transaction management with client deliverables and relationship management
- Leading the development of new and enhanced modelling capability, including tech solutions
- Managing commercial outsourcing arrangements
- Leading the ongoing pricing development of novel bulk annuity transaction structures, reinsurance solutions, and new product lines
- Leading pricing projects in partnership with Treasury and Investment Office, Finance Strategy & Finance Reporting teams
- Providing study mentoring and development support to junior team members
- Opportunity for line management
Requirements
- Commercially minded Actuary with exceptional technical skills
- Experience of bulk annuity pricing, funded reinsurance, longevity reinsurance, or life insurance balance sheet management required
- Understanding of UK DB pensions valuable
- Understanding of Solvency II/UK for life insurance, in particular balance sheet construction, liability discounting, asset strategy & ALM valuable
- Experience of developing/structuring and pricing institutional insurance products valuable
- Understanding of non-standard capital and reinsurance structures valuable
- Ambitious and self-motivated with ability to work on own initiative/prioritize workload to strict deadlines
Skills
- Actuarial
- Pricing
- Bulk annuity pricing
- Funded reinsurance
- Longevity reinsurance
- Life insurance balance sheet management
- UK DB pensions
- Solvency II/UK for life insurance
- Balance sheet construction
- Liability discounting
- Asset strategy
- ALM
- Institutional insurance product development/structuring/pricing
- Non-standard capital and reinsurance structures
- Modelling capability development
- Commercial outsourcing management
Location
- London
- Edinburgh
Work Type
- Flexible working arrangements
Experience Level
- Manager / Expert
Education Level
- Actuary
Benefits
- Pension scheme of up to 18% (13% employer, 5% employee)
- Share Save and Share Incentive Plan
- Financial wellbeing and support services
- 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
- Opportunity to purchase up to five extra days of leave
- Time Off When You Need It policy
- Market-leading Inspiring Families policy with comprehensive support and paid parental leave (maternity, adoption, surrogacy, paternity)
- Private Healthcare
- Critical Illness cover
- Life Assurance
- Additional family options for Health & Protection cover
About the Company
- M&G has a heritage dating back more than 175 years with a long history of innovation in savings and investments.
- Combines asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.
- Operates through two distinct segments: Asset Management and Life.
- Focuses on giving everyone real confidence to put their money to work.
- Values telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity.
- Creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – across gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation and more – including neurodivergent individuals, career returners and those with military service experience.
- M&G is proud to be Level 3: Disability Confident Leader under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme.
- We welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions.
- We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process.
- All candidates have the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments when applying.
- If you need any additional support at any stage, please contact us at: careers@mandg.com
