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Requirements
Must:
- PhD. or masters in statistics, data science, or equivalent field, or degree with relevant experience
- Previous experience within data science
- Experience in insurance pricing and modelling
- Detailed technical knowledge of GLMs, Elastic Nets, GBMs, GAMs, Random Forests, Neural Networks, and clustering techniques
- Knowledge of statistics and distributions commonly used in insurance
- Experience in programming languages (e.g. Python, PySpark, R, SAS, SQL)
- Proficient at communicating results concisely, both verbally and in writing
- Motivated by technical excellence
- Driven to deliver iterative improvements in a timely fashion
- Team player
- Self-motivated with a drive to learn and develop
- Logical thinker with a professional and positive attitude
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of cutting-edge, bespoke machine learning predictive models, including risk pricing and classification and regression models
- Identify and create data solutions that create value
- Work collaboratively with the pricing and machine learning teams to provide insight across the business
- Enable improvements to products, prices, and processes, giving Markerstudy a critical advantage
- Identify and create solutions leveraging vast data assets to improve underwriting performance
- Develop and test modelling improvements for pricing models, particularly in motor
- Be the technical lead in developing predictive models solving business challenges through analyses or bespoke modelling
- Prototype ML solutions before handing them to the ML team for implementation
- Conduct focused research and development to address business challenges
- Collaborate with teams to analyze and identify improvements to risk modelling and business challenges
- Use a wide range of data science and statistical techniques
- Research and leverage new and existing internal and/or external data sources
- Communicate results to key decision makers across the business
- Assist in deployment and monitoring efforts for efficient implementation of solutions created
Description
At Markerstudy Group, we are a rapidly growing company in the insurance sector, committed to developing innovative solutions across various insurance lines by leveraging vast data assets and state-of-the-art processing capabilities. We are a leading provider of private insurance in the UK, insuring around 5% of private cars, 20% of commercial vehicles, and over 30% of motorcycles, with total premium levels of approximately £1 billion. Our company works with household names like Tesco, Sainsburys, and Lloyds Bank. We offer hybrid working opportunities from our locations in Manchester or Haywards Heath.
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