Group Head of Property Pricing

About the role

This is a strategic opportunity to play a key role in shaping and embedding best ‑ in ‑ class technical pricing across our global Property portfolio. You'll lead the development and continuous enhancement of pricing models, ensuring they are robust, commercially relevant, and fully integrated into underwriting decision ‑ making . Working closely with underwriting, portfolio management, and data teams, you'll provide insight and challenge on pricing performance to drive profitability and optimisation. You'll also contribute to ongoing pricing transformation, strengthening tools, governance, and frameworks, while collaborating across our global pricing community to balance consistency with local market needs. About QBE At QBE, we get to the heart of what matters for our customers . And we do it all with a human touch. We're an international insurer with more than 13,000 people working across 26 countries - which means we're big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact. It's an exciting time. We're building momentum towards our vision to become the most consistent and innovative risk partner . What if you could have a positive impact - at work and in the world? As part of the QBE team, you'll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind. Your new role: Provide leadership and oversight to ensure the Group Property technical pricing framework is delivered consistently across divisions, aligned with Group Pricing Standards and return-on-capital objectives . Develop and maintain the Group Property technical pricing framework , with a strong emphasis on enhancing the quality of technical pricing and building confidence in technical rate adequacy as a strategic enabler for portfolio management and decision-making. Lead and develop an offshore team responsible for sourcing, transforming, and validating divisional data, and for building non-Catastrophe Property peril models using appropriate modelling techniques in collaboration with divisional pricing teams. Work closely with the Catastrophe Modelling team to integrate Cat model outputs including allocated reinsurance costs and capital costs to produce a comprehensive total technical price. Oversee deployment of pricing tools into underwriting workflows, ensuring solutions meet underwriter requirements and meanin gfully support risk selection and pricing decisions. Monitor and challenge pricing performance , including rate change and rate adequacy, and provide actionable insights to support portfolio optimisation and profitability targets. Collaborate with underwriting, portfolio management, product committee, and claims to improve data quality , enhance pricing insight, and ensure consistent application of technical pricing. Represent global pricing community in Property product committees and provide technical expertise to support data driven decisions. Contribute to pricing transformation initiatives , including tool enhancement , infrastructure improvements, and adoption of new methodologies and technologies. Provide leadership and e ngage with the global pricing community to align Group and Divisional teams, balancing standardisation with local market requirements and divisional needs. Contribute to the development and execution of the Global Pricing Strategy. Lead the ongoing evolution of the Property pricing operating model , including prioritisation, delivery cadence, and effective alignment across Group, offshore and divisional pricing teams to support scalable pricing solution delivery. Having the right to work in the UK is a requirement for this role. QBE may consider sponsorship at its discretion. About You Strong experience in insurance pricing, with a focus on Property or Specialty lines, ideally within commercial or large corporate portfolios Deep understanding of end ‑ to ‑ end pricing, including model development, deployment, and ongoing performance monitoring Experience working with pricing tools and integrating models into underwriting systems and workflows Exposure to global or cross ‑ regional pricing initiatives, with an appreciation of balancing standardisation and local market requirements Commercially minded with the ability to challenge and influence stakeholders, bringing the confidence to balance technical rigour with practical decision ‑ making Collaborative approach, with experience working across underwriting, portfolio management and data teams to drive consistent and effective pricing outcomes