- Location
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Department
- Pricing
- Seniority
- Director
- Source
- Greenhouse
Description
Who we are
Apollo, a Skyward Group company, is an innovation-inspired insurance platform operating at Lloyd’s of London, delivering data-driven and creative solutions across a broad range of risks.
Our name reflects our origins. Inspired by one of our founding investors, Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, the business was built with the same pioneering mindset. Alongside Jim Hays, Neil set out to create a different kind of Lloyd’s platform, focused, agile and built around people.
Since launch in 2009, we have grown into a diversified insurance group offering products across Property, Casualty, Marine, Energy and Transportation, Specialty and Reinsurance, alongside Smart Follow and digital and embedded risk programmes. Our experience and unique ecosystem give Platform Partners the best chance of success, from navigating the Lloyd’s new entrant process through to the delivery of their long-term strategy.
With a team of more than 300 professionals, we continue to grow with purpose, combining underwriting excellence, innovation and collaboration to enable a more resilient and sustainable world.
Your Role
As Head of Pricing, you will lead Apollo’s actuarial pricing function, setting its strategy and ensuring pricing plays an influential role in underwriting and portfolio decision-making across the business.
Reporting to the Chief Actuary, you will have overall leadership responsibility for a significant pricing function, leading through four senior pricing leaders responsible for specialist teams across the business.
This is a highly visible leadership role. You will set the direction for pricing at Apollo, develop and empower the senior pricing leadership team, and build strong relationships across underwriting, claims, actuarial and portfolio management. You will also represent the pricing function with senior stakeholders, the Board and relevant committees, ensuring technical pricing insight is translated into clear, commercially relevant decisions.
What you will do
- Set the strategy and direction for pricing across Apollo, ensuring the function is focused on the areas that create the greatest value for the business.
- Build a strong and effective pricing leadership team, giving senior pricing leaders clear accountability and the autonomy to run their respective areas.
- Strengthen the influence of pricing across the business, ensuring actuarial insight informs underwriting, portfolio and strategic decision-making.
- Represent the pricing function at Board and committee level, communicating complex issues clearly and providing effective challenge and insight when decisions are being made.
- Develop Apollo’s technical pricing capability, working with underwriting teams to ensure models, tools and approaches remain effective and aligned with Apollo’s Pricing Policy.
- Shape the development of pricing MI and reporting, ensuring senior management and Lloyd’s have clear, relevant information to support decision-making.
- Drive the continued evolution of the function, including exploring where AI can improve productivity, technical insight and reporting.
What we are looking for
- A qualified actuary with significant General Insurance pricing experience, ideally gained within the London Market or a similarly complex commercial insurance environment.
- Established leadership experience within a General Insurance pricing function, with responsibility for setting direction, developing senior colleagues and creating accountability across teams.
- Experience shaping pricing strategy and developing technical pricing capability across multiple products, portfolios or business areas.
- The credibility and communication skills to influence senior stakeholders, underwriters and actuarial colleagues, including at Board and committee level.
- Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to translate technical pricing insight into clear, practical business decisions.
- An ability to bring different teams and disciplines together, particularly across pricing, underwriting, claims and portfolio management.
- A forward-looking approach to pricing, including how technology and AI can improve capability, insight and ways of working.
- Sound judgement and integrity, with an understanding of the standards expected within a regulated insurance business.
What you’ll get in return
We offer a competitive and thoughtfully designed reward package that reflects the value of our people. This includes a fair and attractive salary, discretionary bonus, and a comprehensive benefits package - including 31 days’ annual leave, a non-contributory pension and private medical insurance.
Our commitment to inclusion
At Apollo, people are at the heart of everything we do. We are a diverse, growing team of empowered experts who bring collaboration, innovation and data-driven thinking to every relationship and every risk.
We believe diversity and inclusion go far beyond targets. They are essential to understanding the global communities we serve and to making better decisions. That’s why we are committed to developing diverse talent at every level and creating an environment where different perspectives are genuinely valued, supported and celebrated.
We also run a programme of events, training and initiatives designed to recognise both the challenges and opportunities that come with building an inclusive workplace.
Hybrid & flexible working
Flexible and hybrid working are fully embraced at Apollo. We do not believe in presenteeism. Instead, we trust our people to work in ways that allow them to perform at their best, balancing professional responsibilities with personal commitments.
Supporting your application
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