Description

Principal Pricing Analyst
Region: Midlands

Location: Stratford-upon-Avon

Contract type: Permanent

Reference number: CSDI04155

Working pattern: Full-time (Part-time hours considered)

Salary: £46,000 - £55,000 + 17.5% annual bonus + benefits package
Closing date: 10th September 2025

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Principal Pricing Analyst
   Join a people-focused, mutual organisation committed to fair and accurate pricing
   Benefit from a collaborative team environment and a varied workload
   Work from home 80% of the time, with the remaining 20% spent in Stratford-upon-Avon, where you can enjoy our welcoming and modern office setting
About the role
NFU Mutual’s award-winning Pricing Department are excited to offer a new opportunity for an experienced Principal Pricing Analyst to join our well-established team.
Based at our Head Office in Stratford-upon-Avon, with excellent flexibility to work from home, this role offers not only a varied and stimulating workload but also the chance to shape your career through tailored development opportunities.

As a Principal Analyst, you’ll play a key role in setting fair and competitive prices for our wide range of personal lines products with a focus on home and lifestyle offerings. From analysing market conditions and testing the feasibility of end prices, to identifying new ways to improve how we work, you’ll have real impact on both our customers and our business.

You’ll draw on your expertise in statistical pricing techniques, software skills and industry experience to strengthen the technical capability of our team, ensuring we continue to deliver accurate and transparent pricing.

Most importantly, you’ll be joining an organisation built on the ethos of putting people first. At NFU Mutual, we value our colleagues as much as our customers, and this is especially true within our Pricing function – a growing area of strategic importance. Here, you’ll be part of a collaborative hub of in-house expertise, working at the cutting edge of our customer proposition.
 
About you
You’ll bring proven experience in General Insurance pricing or in another sector e.g. pricing of fast-moving consumer goods, with a strong understanding of how to balance commercial outcomes with fair customer pricing. 
Online pricing experience would be highly valued, along with strong technical skills.

We’re looking for someone confident working with SQL (or SAS) and R, with Python being a welcome addition.
Proficiency in Radar is essential, as is experience in data analysis – particularly with large datasets, data quality and data manipulation. Strong modelling experience, ideally using Emblem or similar techniques, is also a must.

Alongside your technical expertise, you’ll bring the right personal qualities to thrive in this role. You’ll have an analytical mindset, commercial awareness and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear messages for a range of stakeholders. 

You’ll also be able to evidence the following:
   Strong communication and stakeholder management
   Confidence to present technical insights in a clear and accessible way
   Drive, tenacity and motivation to deliver results, whilst supporting the development of junior colleagues through coaching and mentoring.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique.  We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.   

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during  the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.
Benefits and Rewards
When you join our team,you can expecta supportive cultureandanattractive range ofrewards and benefitsincluding:

Salary in the range of £46,000 - £55,000 per annum depending on skill set and experience 
Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
£20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
Health and wellbeing plan- cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
Employee Volunteering - volunteerin the community for one day each year
Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
Life Assurance coverof 4 x salary
Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
Working at NFU Mutual
We’reone of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 yearswe’veput our customers at the heart of everything we do.Ourpeopleare just as important to us.

Wepride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction but also named us as the first UK-based company to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace for ten years in a row. We are also the only Insurer to feature in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of ‘Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK’, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.