Senior Actuarial Manager, Pricing

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December 10 Who are we? We’re a specialist employee benefits provider, striving to create healthy, happy workplaces. As part of the international Unum Group, we’re on a collective mission to help the working world thrive. The role What will you be doing? ○ Lead the setting of central pricing bases and agree product terms across

Unum’s Group Income Protection, Group Life, Group Dependants and Group Critical Illness products. ○ Own and deliver pricing reviews, annual experience investigations, and recommendations for changes to pricing assumptions, ensuring appropriate peer and risk reviews are completed. ○ Monitor emerging risk trends, new money rates, expenses and cost of capital, recommending pricing adjustments where needed to keep our approach commercially robust and within risk appetite. ○ Play a key role in pricing governance, preparing clear reports and presenting recommendations to senior forums including the

Pricing Governance Group, Strategic Revenue Price Group and other committees. ○ Work closely with key partners across Financial Underwriting, Distribution, Marketing and DT&T, helping to translate pricing insight into practical commercial decisions. ○ Consider the impact of pricing recommendations on vulnerable customers, fair value, Conduct Risk, Consumer Duty and wider

Solvency II governance requirements. ○ Maintain strong controls across pricing processes, while proactively identifying opportunities to improve ways of working within the team. ○ Support pricing and risk selection strategic initiatives, helping shape the future direction of pricing capability across the business. ○ Provide line management, technical guidance and coaching to actuarial students and newly qualified actuaries, supporting their development and contribution to the team.

What will you bring? ○ You’ll be a qualified actuary with strong post-qualification experience, ideally gained within life, health or protection insurance. ○ You’ll bring strong pricing experience, with the technical confidence to review assumptions, investigate experience and make sound recommendations in a complex commercial environment. ○ You’ll have a degree-level education, ideally 2:1 or above, in a subject with significant mathematical or statistical content. ○ You’ll be highly numerate, comfortable working with data and pricing models, and confident using IT tools to support analysis and decision-making. ○ You’ll have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise reports and present technical recommendations to senior audiences. ○ You’ll be able to balance technical rigour with commercial judgement, managing competing priorities and delivering high-quality work under pressure. ○ You’ll bring curiosity and external market awareness, applying new ideas and industry insight to help improve pricing approaches and business outcomes. ○ You’ll have the leadership capability to coach, guide and develop actuarial colleagues, supporting both technical growth and career progression.

Location Hybrid working. 3 days in office, 2 days from home. From office locations in Dorking, London or Basingstoke. (Dorking location preferred for office days) Benefits ○ Bonus ○ Pension ○ Life assurance ○ Income protection ○ Private medical insurance ○ Health and wellbeing support ○ Holiday allowance ○ Electric vehicle scheme Why join us? At Unum, we’ve created a workplace where people feel supported to progress and grow, and can see their ambitions coming to life.

As a part of our commitment to creating an inclusive workplace , we actively encourage applications from those with disabilities and those with long-term health conditions. If you meet the essential criteria for the role and choose to opt in to the scheme during your application, you will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected] .

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.

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Unum UK