Who are we?
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".
⌖ The Mission
The goal is to act as a technical expert on pan-European tenders.
Reporting to the Head of Pre-sales within the Product & Pricing office, you'll also be involved in the early stages of the insurance product creation process. Your role involves modeling algorithms and conducting pricing approaches to understand and measure the risks associated with potential new business ventures for the company.
Supporting your Head of Pricing, your role includes:
- Ensuring technical studies for responses to tenders.
- Conducting risk analysis and pricing studies for the creation of new various non-life insurance products.
- Presenting study results to the Head of Product and validation committees.
- Participating in studies for the revaluation and recovery of portfolios requiring specific follow-up in direct collaboration with sales teams.
- Supporting the sales department for client presentations or reassessment actions.
- Defining technical guidelines/recommendations for the creation/evolution of products and designing management tools and methods.
✯ The Profile we are looking at
To excel in this role, you should have the following qualifications and qualities:
- Actuarial background on P&C business, providing you with the expertise needed for this role.
- Relevant experience, including a prior involvement in non-life Insurance pricing.
- Relevant skills and a keen interest in modeling and pricing analyses.
- Proficient in programming languages such as R, Python, and SAS.
- Proficiency in English is essential for effective communication, both spoken and written.
- Enjoying collaborative work with a strong emphasis on a project-oriented approach.
- Impact-driven with a focus on improving processes and insights.
- Enjoy problem-solving and critical thinking.
- Curious/inquisitive mind.
- Strong analytical and synthesis abilities.
- High level of organisation, attention to detail and accuracy.
Interview process
- Screening interview with Talent recruiter
- Technical interview with pricing team members
- Manager interview with Head of Pricing
- HR interview with Head of Talent or VP People & Culture
Positive energy, agility, and team spirit are essential to support Wakam in its hyper-growth!
You have the Wakam mindset? Join us!
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!
What we are looking for ?
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.
