Pricing Manager - Travel

Admiral is currently recruiting for a Pricing Manager within our Travel Insurance department. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to step into a key leadership role at a pivotal stage of growth. Our Travel business is expanding rapidly, pricing approaches are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and the team is growing both in size and expertise. This role follows a hybrid model, with a requirement to be in our Cardiff office once a week .

At Admiral, Pricing has always been a fundamental cornerstone of our success. While the wider travel industry remains relatively simple in its pricing approach, often relying on basic tools and limited data, we have a unique opportunity to lead the way. By leveraging Admiral’s group-wide pricing capabilities, we aim to build more advanced, data-driven pricing strategies and create a sustainable competitive advantage.

We’re looking for an ambitious and forward-thinking pricing leader who is passionate about challenging the status quo within the travel insurance space. You’ll lead one of our key pricing pillars, managing a team of analysts while shaping rating structures, exploring new data sources, strengthening controls, and driving innovation across pricing.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously enhance pricing and rating structures to improve performance
• Drive competitive advantage through smarter rate change management, data use and risk selection
• Identify and deliver strategic pricing opportunities to support sustainable growth
• Use modelling and market insights to inform pricing decisions and forecast impact
• Analyse large loss trends and embed insights into pricing strategy
• Ensure pricing decisions meet regulatory requirements, including fair pricing practices
• Oversee end-to-end rate changes, ensuring accurate implementation and strong governance
• Improve data quality and insight to support better decision-making
• Coordinate prioritisation, delivery and monitoring of pricing changes
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure alignment and effective delivery
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing pricing team

Experience & Skills

• Proven leadership experience within Insurance Pricing, demonstrated experience
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to manage workload effectively for both yourself and your team, delivering high-quality outputs
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Strong analytical and numerical skills with excellent attention to detail
• Experience building business cases and evaluating pricing strategies
• Degree (2:1 or above) in a numerate subject (e.g. Mathematics, Engineering, Economics)
• Experience with programming tools such as SAS, SQL, BigQuery or similar (training provided)
• Self-motivated with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset

Essential Criteria

• Proven experience Insurance Pricing, including development and optimisation of pricing or rating structures
• Proven leadership experience, managing and developing pricing teams
• Strong analytical capability, with experience using data, modelling and insight to drive pricing decisions
• Experience with pricing tools and programming languages (e.g. SAS, SQL, BigQuery) and a numerate degree (2:1 or above)

This is not an exhaustive list, but it highlights the key responsibilities and what success in this role looks like.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

Disability Confident Leader

As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we’ll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process.

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