Health Pricing Team Lead

About the role

The Health Pricing Team Lead delivers accurate, well-governed and commercially sound actuarial pricing work. As the principal technical and delivery partner to the Health Pricing Officer, the role coordinates the team, reviews outputs, develops capability and escalates material risks or decisions needing officer approval. It combines actuarial work, quality review, project coordination and people development.

Key responsibilities

• Lead pricing activities for new health products, enhancements, repricing and portfolio actions, and review premium rates, benefit structures, assumptions and profitability results with Product, Distribution, Finance, Risk and Operations.
• Partner with Experience Study and Health Analytics to turn claims, persistency, utilization and expense experience into pricing and repricing options, and monitor performance against expectations.
• Ensure pricing follows company policies, Corporate Pricing Standards and regulatory expectations, perform peer review of models and assumptions, and keep audit-ready pricing records.
• Contribute actuarial insight across product development, prepare pricing recommendations for governance forums, and support responses to auditor and regulator queries.
• Coach team members, build tools and templates, and act as delegate for the Health Pricing Officer on agreed operational matters.
• Support annual and periodic planning, and provide management reporting and ad-hoc analysis to the Health Pricing Officer.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance or a related discipline; postgraduate degree an advantage.
• Associate actuarial qualification or meaningful progress toward fellowship; fellowship an advantage.
• At least 7 years of actuarial experience, including hands-on health pricing product development, repricing or portfolio management.
• Experience leading projects and reviewing other actuaries; prior people-management experience an advantage.

Required skills

• Actuarial pricing concepts, profitability measures, financial reporting and individual health or life insurance products.
• Ability to structure analysis, recommend solutions and explain conclusions in plain language.
• Stakeholder management, planning and communication, with the confidence to challenge and escalate appropriately.

Working arrangement is hybrid. Manulife describes itself as an international financial services provider and an equal opportunity employer.