Simply Business is hiring a
Head of Pricing

Summary

The job is for a Head of Pricing on a fixed term contract until January 2025. The role involves leading a team, implementing pricing strategies, interfacing with various business sections, and contributing to company goals. The ideal candidate should be an expert in price optimization, analytics, regression analysis, and machine learning, comfortable dealing with complex data, decisive, a great people manager, and aligned with the company's social, environmental, and DEI goals.

Requirements

• An expert in price optimisation, analytics, regression analysis, and machine learning. You understand how these techniques can be applied to the economics of an online business
• Comfortable dealing with complex data and ambiguity. You can identify what is important, what could be wrong, and get solutions in place quickly
• Decisive and drives commercial value, rather than just technical development
• A great people manager with demonstrated success in team building, mentoring, coaching, and performance management

Responsibilities

• Lead, nurture, and develop a well established and hardworking team
• Build upon and extend the existing infrastructure so that cutting edge pricing and analytics practices are implemented throughout our commercial business
• Look after commission pricing. You’ll interface with insurance product, partnerships, new tactics, and pretty much every strategic part of the business
• Work closely with a cross-section of the business in assessing and implementing changes
• Communicate results, create and galvanise the vision for the team and broader business
• Actively contribute to company social, environmental and DEI goals

Benefits

• Remote working - you can balance working remotely and connecting with colleagues in the office
• Mental health and wellbeing resources - access to counselling and technology to support your mental health
• Flexible parental leave - we pay six months full pay to the primary caregiver, and four weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver
• Paid sabbatical - two weeks off when you’ve been here five years and four weeks off when you’ve been here 10, 15 and 20 years
• A dedicated learning platform - the platform lets you balance both work and life goals (including management and leadership programme)
• Life event leave - an extra day of leave every two years for whatever you want: moving house, welcoming a new pet, or your birthday
• Competitive salary - based upon your experience and the market we’re in from day one
• Annual bonus - the potential to earn a bonus based on business performance
• Pension - we match what you put into your pension up to five percent
• BUPA Private Medical Insurance. covering Pre-existing medical conditions
• Health cash plan - we reimburse your everyday medical expenses
• Holiday entitlement - 25 days leave, plus bank holidays (you can also use your flexible benefits to get up to five days more!)
• Life assurance - four times your basic salary
• Flexible benefits scheme - an allocated allowance to use each year on things like critical illness cover, dental insurance. , travel insurance. , up to five days extra holiday. , and gym membership