Pricing Actuary (Motor) - Remote
TLDR
Join the Motor Pricing team to deliver technical pricing excellence and profitability steering across the UK and Rest of Europe while ensuring competitive scalability.
🧰 Who We Are
🚀 About the Team
You will join the Motor Pricing team, which supports Wakam’s partner portfolios by delivering technical pricing excellence and profitability steering.
The team works in close collaboration with stakeholders across Risk, Reinsurance, Data, Underwriting, and Partner Management, and plays a key role in ensuring our Motor business remains sustainable, competitive, and scalable across markets.
🎯 Your Mission
As a Motor Pricing Actuary, you will deliver pricing and portfolio analysis work across the UK & Rest of Europe scope (excluding France).
Your core objective is to secure profitability and strengthen technical portfolio management through robust pricing, performance monitoring, and actionable recommendations.
You will operate with a high level of autonomy, taking ownership of projects end-to-end — from analysis and recommendation to deliverables ready for committee review and implementation.
✏️ Your Responsibilities
End-to-End Pricing & Portfolio Projects
You will independently manage projects covering:
- New contract pricing: profitability analyses, scenario testing, and pricing recommendations tailored to partner needs and constraints.
- Optimisation of existing portfolios: performance diagnostics, identification of key drivers (mix effects, claims trends, inflation, drifts), pricing action proposals, and impact monitoring over time.
- Pricing tools & technical assets: maintenance and targeted improvements of datasets, models, scripts, and profitability reports, ensuring quality, consistency of definitions, and reproducibility.
- Partner reviews & committees: preparation of review packs and quantified analyses to support partner discussions and internal governance.
✅ Expected Deliverables
You will produce ready-to-use, auditable deliverables that can be used in governance settings and handed over smoothly, including:
- Pricing notes and recommendations
- Portfolio performance analyses and diagnostics
- Committee materials (slides + appendices)
- Quantified outputs (tables, scripts, queries) with light documentation enabling reuse and handover
🧠 What You Bring
You bring strong technical foundations and relevant market expertise, including:
- Proven expertise in Motor pricing, either in European markets and/or the UK
- Experience in Italy and/or Spain is a strong plus
- Experience with Akur8 is a strong plus
- Excellent actuarial and analytical skills, with the ability to produce robust, decision-grade analyses
- Ability to deliver committee-ready outputs, with structured narratives, clear assumptions, quantified impacts, and traceability
- Comfort working with stakeholders across Risk, Reinsurance, and Data, and translating technical work into actionable recommendations
✨ Who You Are
You are likely to thrive in this contractor role if you are:
- Highly autonomous, with a strong sense of ownership and delivery discipline
- Structured and rigorous, especially on auditability, consistency, and reproducibility
- Pragmatic and impact-oriented, focused on what truly drives profitability and can be implemented effectively
- Comfortable operating in a multi-stakeholder environment, and able to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
🏆 Hiring Process
Our hiring process is designed to be selective, transparent, and respectful of your time:
- Initial interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner
- Interview with our Pricing Lead Motor UK & Europe
- Technical Assessment (+presentation)
- Chief Interview with our Chief Underwriting Officer - Motor and Mobility
- Finale Interview with our People Partner
Benefits
Wakam From Anywhere program
True remote work flexibility with our Wakam From Anywhere (WFA) program - yes, we even have a teammate working from a sailboat!
Wakam builds innovative white-label insurance solutions through its proprietary Play&Plug® technology platform, catering to over 80 partners across Europe. As a leader in digital and embedded insurance operating in 32 countries, Wakam excels in providing seamless API-driven products that integrate easily into existing systems.