Pricing Testing Consultant:
- Be part of a people-focused company that offers a collaborative, supportive environment and a varied workload.
- Take on a role that blends technical expertise with people leadership, giving you the opportunity to shape processes and mentor a growing team.
- Enjoy 80% home working, with access to excellent facilities when working from our Stratford-upon-Avon office.
About the role:
This is an exciting opportunity to take on a role that combines technical expertise with people leadership.
As part of the Testing and Assurance team, you will play a key role in ensuring the quality and reliability of pricing algorithms before they are deployed into live production, while also leading and motivating team members to deliver accurate and consistent outputs.
You’ll help set and maintain assurance standards, review the work of colleagues, and carry out testing to make sure outputs are robust and error-free. Alongside your technical responsibilities, you’ll manage day-to-day workflows, delegate tasks, and provide guidance and mentoring to junior team members.
The role also involves working closely with the wider Pricing department, Underwriting and IT to ensure testing practices are properly represented across projects, as well as driving continuous improvement by refining processes and keeping up to date with industry developments.
About you:
We’re looking for someone who brings a strong foundation in testing, ideally within a pricing and underwriting environment who has exposure to business-focused testing teams. You’ll combine a structured, methodical approach with the curiosity and drive to challenge processes and contribute to continuous improvement.
People management experience, whether through direct line management or through coaching and mentoring, will be an essential pre-requisite as you’ll be guiding others and supporting their development. Strong communication and relationship-building skills are also key, alongside the ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders across the business.
You’ll be confident in translating complex information into clear and straightforward messages, and have the influence needed to ensure testing best practice is both understood and adopted.
You’ll also be comfortable planning and prioritising your own workload, with a proactive mindset and the flexibility to adapt as priorities shift. Experience with test automation software would be an advantage, as would exposure to structured improvement methodologies.
In summary of the main essential attributes:
- Testing experience within a business-focused testing team, ideally in Pricing or Underwriting, is essential.
- Experience coaching, mentoring, or managing people, with the ability to bring out the best in others.
- Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to influence and translate technical detail into simple, actionable insight.
At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.
We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.
We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.
Benefits and Rewards:
- Up to £60,000 + 17.5% annual bonus + benefits package
- Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
- A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
- Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
- £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
- Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
- Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
- Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
- Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
- Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
- Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
- Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility
Working at NFU Mutual:
We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us.
We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction but also named us as the first UK-based company to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace for ten years in a row. We are also the only Insurer to feature in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of ‘Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK’, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.
