Manager| Individual Pricing

MLC Life Insurance. We have been protecting Australians for over 130 years. We respect the role we play in providing peace of mind for our customers, and we never lose sight of it.


Our Purpose

MLC Life Insurance is one of Australia’s leading life insurance specialists and a member of the Nippon Life Insurance Group, one of the world’s leading insurers. We are guided by our simple purpose: ‘A Promise for Life’. We provide almost 1 million Australians with reassurance that they and their loved ones will be supported when they need it most. It’s a promise that provides peace of mind and helps them sleep at night.

Our purpose is supported by Our Values of Do What’s Right, Deliver Together, Make it Simple, Own it and Aim High. It’s how we work together and behave every day in every interaction with our customers, partners and each other that defines who we are.


Our Strategy

Our strategy puts our customers at the centre of our ambition to be Australia’s leading and most trusted life insurer. It is through the commitment, energy and talent of everyone at MLC Life Insurance, working together, that we make a positive contribution to the lives of our customers. To support all of us to be at their best every day, we offer a flexible, hybrid work environment centred on development, wellbeing, recognition and contribution.

With more than 1300 people nationally, we believe our success is built on the unique contribution of our people. Diversity and Inclusion is core to what we believe in and who we are. We aspire for everyone at MLC Life Insurance to feel valued and respected for who they are.


The Role

We have an opportunity to join our Individual Pricing and Insurance Sustainability team as a Manager, Individual Pricing. This role can be based in our Melbourne or North Sydney office combined with a hybrid work from home model.

The role sits within a fast paced and passionate pricing team who deliver value-add work to various stakeholders within the business.

Your key focus will be to support the Individual Pricing Team by providing robust pricing analysis and recommendations to support strategic initiatives, managing ad-hoc pricing requests, contributing to strategic reviews of reinsurance covering our Individual Life portfolio and generally supporting the Pricing Team to deliver our strategy.

Your responsibilities include:

Leading Individual Life pricing initiatives by overseeing project plans and performing peer review of technical work prepared by analysts and actuaries within the team.
Preparing pricing reports and recommendations for senior management.
Providing input into the assumption setting and review process, in conjunction with the Head of Individual Pricing and the Appointed Actuary.
Championing process improvement and best practice within the pricing process.
Collaborating with reinsurers.
Contribute to the resolution of incidents.
Developing team members to build technical pricing expertise, commercial acumen, and stakeholder engagement ability.


About You

FIAA or equivalent with a minimum of 7 years’ Actuarial experience in the Australian life insurance industry. Pricing experience is highly regarded.
Strong understanding of the Australian life insurance industry and individual risk products.
Ability to plan, scope and manage projects including engaging relevant stakeholders.
Proven experience building convincing business cases.
Proven experience identifying issues, recommending solutions and working collaboratively with teams to solve problems.
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Understanding of complex business issues and the ability to explain them
Ability to prioritise multiple complex tasks appropriately by using effective time management skills
Experience in Prophet, Microsoft Excel and VBA, databases and SQL, R and/or Python.

Why Choose Us?

At MLC Life Insurance, you will have the opportunity to:

enjoy flexible, hybrid work options and an inclusive environment where everyone is respected and valued for who they are and their unique contribution
embrace a culture of customer centricity and an ambition to be Australia’s leading, most trusted Life Insurer
access a range of benefits including competitive salary, lifestyle leave, two days volunteer leave every year, recognition of service milestones; and
wellness and lifestyle offerings including access to Uprise – our Digital Wellbeing Program, as well as discounts on a variety of lifestyle and entertainment products and services.

Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including Federal Police Checks, Employment checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and Bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates, however they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the position.


Primary Location: AU-NSW-North Sydney
Work Locations: Level 6, 177 Pacific Hwy Level 6 177 Pacific Hwy North Sydney 2060
Job: Business Enablement
Organization: MLC Limited
Schedule: Permanent
Employee Status: Group Level 4
Full-time
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Job Posting: 21-Aug-2024, 5:52:14 PM