General information

Job Title
Underwriting Analyst
Ref #
9305
Location
Reigate
Department
Pricing (TU)
Business Area
Pricing
Working time
Full-Time
Date Published
04-07-2025

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary – Salary is from £33,040+ annual bonus & benefits
Work Level – 1
Permanent role
Location – Reigate (blended working)
Office Attendance- Our roles are hybrid, however you need to travel to our Reigate office 2 days per week for this role.
Closing Date for applications 18th July at 5pm.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

Opportunity

We’re recruiting for an Underwriting Analyst to join our Insurance and Money Services team on a permanent contract. Please note this role is known as Pricing Analyst - Protect (South) in Tesco Underwriting.

In this technical and specialised role, you’ll support the insurance business by analysing underwriting trends, building predictive models, monitoring the performance of the business, and identifying areas of opportunity for footprint growth and profitability.

The Role

• Building models and utilising Data Science tools to provide insight into insurance risk.
• Delivering high quality data analytical activities to support underwriting changes and business opportunities.
• Underwriting Automation - carrying out allocated research and analysis to support the development, testing, and improvement of automated underwriting processes and systems; recommending new functionalities and/or improvements that reduce cost and/or enhance underwriting effectiveness.
• Proactively researching and implementing the use of new statistical analyses, machine learning and automation to improve processes.
• Communicating the results of the modelling and analytical work effectively in non-technical language to peers and stakeholders.
• Keeping knowledge and skills up to date and driving your own personal development.

We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

We need you to have (min experience)

• A strong record of education attainment with a degree in numerical subject - ideally a 2.1 classification.
• Highly computer literate; able to use Excel and other common data analysis and data processing/modelling software.
• Strong appetite and ability to research new modelling techniques using a range of tools including R and Python.
• Good organisational skills; able to deliver tasks within agreed timescales. Ability to work as part of a team; fostering positive relationships and providing mutual support and guidance.
• Highly customer centric; focused on the delivery of high levels of customer service.
• Some knowledge or interest of the UK personal lines insurance market.

 And if you have any of these, even better.

• Proven ability to solve business problems and overcoming obstacles to find effective business solutions.
• Ability to explain complex analysis clearly, avoiding the use of jargon and acronyms and able to communicate the material financial implications of modelling and analysis decisions.
• Appropriately balance statistical accuracy with financial materiality.
• Able to apply judgement where data may be sparse or insufficient in quality or where considerable uncertainty surrounds the range of potential outcomes.
• Self-motivated, able to work with minimum supervision.

What’s in it for you?

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to £2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Green Car Leasing Scheme.
• Critical Illness cover.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

We also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.

Interviews commencing July 2025.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centres are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!
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