Ascentia Partners

Slightly late to the afterparty here but a massive thank you to Jeremy Keating at Price Writers and all the speakers, attendees and sponsors. A great event with some really diverse discussions and presentations and most importantly, a fantastic opportunity for pricing people to meet and connect. Outside of the value of the event and excellent training package behind that, I'm very grateful to be involved in helping to support the industry and play a part in building/bringing together a real community within pricing. There are a lot of great annual events and conferences but nothing as laser focused on pricing specifically as this. Watch out for an update on next year's event and please do reach out to Jeremy or I if you're keen to attend, or even better, to get involved! Thanks again to everyone who came and/or took part. See you again next year!

A little belated but I'd like to take a moment to celebrate that Ascentia Partners celebrated our first birthday on 26th June! This is a major milestone for us and absolutely would not have been possible without the continued support of our clients, candidates and of course our awesome team. A massive shout out to Shannen Riley, Minas Aghopian, Oliver Street, Louise Blair, Ash Knight and Siobhan Dunn - what a fantastic first year in terms of not only performance, but the incredible culture that we've collectively developed here. Super excited to see what we achieve in our second year (and beyond!) and look forward to celebrating each of your successes on that journey! Thanks to all who have supported and trusted the business and our team over the last year and we very much look forward to our continued partnership moving forwards.

📈 Head of Behaviour Modelling - £120k - Remote Really interesting role here from a Pricing & Data Science, developing the strategy and leading implementation of customer behaviour modelling for a rapidly expanding PL insurer. Ideally looking for a well experienced individual from a PL pricing background with a good standard of DS literacy and most importantly, a curious mindset to help develop new and advanced models and identify use cases for customer data. Get in touch - anthony@ascentia.partners

Portfolio Pricing Analyst - £55k - London (1 day per week) Excellent role here with a great manager and really interesting business - an analytical and commercially focused role which would see you driving performance of a growing home insurance portfolio, with exposure to modelling and DS work also. Would suit an analyst with 2+ years of experience looking to have more responsibility over pricing decisions and a very visible role in a fast paced environment. Get in touch for more info - anthony@ascentia.partners

What a fantastic day yesterday at the JCB Golf Club, grateful to have spent a fun day there with some of our clients (thanks Ash Knight) and even more grateful for the fair weather! Definitely one to tick off the list for you keen golfers out there!

Excited to share some fantastic updates here at Ascentia Partners this week! Firstly a huge warm welcome to... Louise Blair - Louise joins the team as a Senior Consultant focusing on personal lines Pricing, Analytics and Actuarial. Really looking forward to the value that Louise can deliver to our clients and candidates in these areas as our GI function goes from strength to strength. Oliver Street - Ollie joins the business as our Director of Human Capital, Employee Benefits & Reward. Having known Ollie for many years now, I'm super pleased to have him onboard as we expand into this dynamic global market! Some highlights from Q1: 🚀 Over 30 people across Pricing, Data, Analytics and Underwriting placed into exciting new roles 📈 Quarterly target exceeded and well on track for annual target, enabling us to reinvest heavily into our people and techology 💡 Our Data & Analytics reach expanding into the Gaming & Betting and Retail spaces 🎓 Melanie Sedgley on-board to help develop our HR & People strategy 🎉 Events planned for September in partnership with Price Writers 🤝 A number of exciting new client partnerships agreed - watch this space! Looking forward to seeing what the rest of 2024 has in store!

🚗 🏠 Pricing Lead - £120k - Risk Pricing (Home or Motor) - London Hybrid This is with a fast growing business that I have done a lot of work with over the last 6 years, lots of expansion here within both home and motor as well as new product launches on the horizon. This role would suit a very strong technical individual (individual contributor role, no line management attached) from a risk pricing background and who'd be interested in leading substantial sophistication projects. Great bunch of people and culture here - get in touch for more info. Anthony@ascentia.partners

Pricing Deployment Lead - FTC (6-12m) up to £100k - Remote Looking to identify an experienced individual with strong experience in Radar pricing deployment & implementation. Open to candidates from either a pure pricing or pure development background, this role would see you leading delivery of and project managing a substantial pricing transformation project for a rapidly growing PL proposition. anthony@ascentia.partners

🐶 New Exclusive Pricing Lead role - £90k - Flexible Hybrid - Pet focus Brand new role, first pricing hire for a well established but growing business in the pet insurance space. Retail pricing focus and joining the business at a very key stage of their pricing and data sophistication journey. This would be an excellent role for somebody looking to move into a lead role within a small business where they can play a larger role in the ongoing growth of a product, clear track to progress to Head of Function as the team and business grows. Get in touch for more info - anthony@ascentia.partners

Fully remote role - Senior Pricing Analyst - £65k Motor retail & optimisation focus, new role as a result of expansion and some really interesting sophistication plans/projects. Less common to see fully remote opportunities in the current market but very much a remote first approach here. Great culture and strong team/leadership. Reach out for more info - anthony@ascentia.partners