Wakam is a B2B2C insurance company that creates white-label insurance solutions via its Play&Plug® technology platform for more than 150 distribution partners. We provide most of our insurance products through API, and hosts white label insurance solutions via our Play&Plug technology platform.
With a footprint spanning 32 countries and revenue of more than €900 million in 2023, mostly generated outside France, Wakam is the European leader in digital and embedded insurance.
Strongly committed to social responsibility, Wakam is a mission-driven company dedicated to “enabling transparent and impactful insurance".
Job Description
Join Wakam's Underwriting leadership team as a key player responsible for product and pricing strategies across the UK and Europe. Reporting directly to the Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), you will lead a team of two experienced professionals to deliver cutting-edge pricing solutions and portfolio management practices.
This Paris-based role offers flexibility, with the opportunity for hybrid work arrangements.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership:
- Report directly to the Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) and lead the creation and delivery of our pricing analytics strategy.
- Mentor and guide the team, ensuring they achieve industry best practices in portfolio management and pricing.
Technical Excellence:
- Collaborate with pricing and underwriting teams to develop a robust portfolio management framework.
- Support the CUO by developing and presenting Monthly Underwriting Performance Reviews.
- Work with key stakeholders across underwriting, pricing, reserving, finance, and reinsurance teams to drive cross-functional initiatives.
- Execute our pricing model strategy, focusing on Predictive Loss Ratios and price optimization.
Innovation & Development:
- Spearhead the development of our new pricing engine in collaboration with the Digital Team.
- Engage with Pricing teams and Line of Business Heads to identify and solve issues through advanced analytics, such as technical forecasting and exposure accumulation.
- Collect and analyze data from partners via insurance and non-insurance databases.
✯ Profile requirements
- Proven experience in P&C insurance pricing, with expertise in portfolio management.
- Strong skills in traditional pricing tools (EMBLEM, AKUR8) and open-source programming (Python, R).
- Exposure to machine learning models and data visualization (PowerBI, Tableau).
- Strong leadership and team management experience.
- Fluency in English; French is a plus.
Recruitment Process
- Interview with Talent Acquisition Expert
- Technical & fit interview with VP Underwriting
- Fit interview with Chief Underwriting Officer Global or UK
- HR culture fit interview with Head of Talent
To help you get a complete picture of our hiring process and Wakam's work culture, please visit our dedicated page : Interviews at Wakam.
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More about us
Our culture? Free to impact. A culture where everything is possible, where all ideas are taken into consideration, where everyone has an impact on the transformation of insurance! Hungry for freedom? Thirsty for autonomy? If you are adventurous and like challenges, then the Wakam adventure might be made for you!
Discover on our website who we really are with the 11 cultural markers that so well describe us!
Mindset compatibility with our ‘Free to Impact’ culture:
- Think big
- Biased for action
- Curious and eager to learn
- Can say no and find solutions
- Aims for the moon (but please don’t stick on the moon)
- And above all: have fun working together 🤜🤛 !
- Wakam is not based on a hierarchy but on a methodology where everyone finds their role and knows their objectives.
- With a flat hierarchical system and a highly collaborative operating model, Wakam is an extremely agile and transparent company.
- Every last Friday of the month, it's Free.day @Wakam, a day without meetings to take a step aside and dedicate ourselves to skills sponsorship or other activities (because we are curious, I remind you).
- Full-remote is a reality at Wakam (there is even one Wakamee who works from his sailing boat ⛵) with our Wakam From Anywhere (WFA) program.
- Last but not least : we are nice and we have fun! (you'll find out by yourself 😉)
At Wakam, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to your recruiter.
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What We Do
Wakam is a B2B2C insurance company that creates white-label insurance solutions via its Play&Plug® technology platform for more than 150 distribution partners and over 8 million policyholders. With a foothold in 32 countries and a 2021 turnover of €455 million, the majority of which was generated outside France, Wakam is the European leader in digital and embedded insurance. The company has been growing rapidly for more than seven years. Led by Olivier Jaillon, Wakam is a Mission-driven company since 2021, its corporate purpose is "enabling transparent and impactful insurance". We have a strong corporate culture built around 11 cultural markers that promote collaboration, curiosity, learning, open-mindedness and innovation
