I am an analytical and influential Pricing and Portfolio Executive Leader, utilising data, actuarial, technical, business and leadership skills to improve business performance and value across Insurance, Banking and Energy sectors. I innovate to make doing business with an organisation easier for customers. I have led senior teams of up to 10 and held responsibility for portfolios of $2.2bn. I am motivated by being able to directly influence financial results which I can see and point to. I use data to drive actionable and tangible insights, identify opportunities for business improvement and deliver value. I find and link good people together, collaborating with them to deliver the result.My career highlights include running a successful campaign at Westpac resulting in 500+ new customers with impressive transactional balance uplift, directly influencing and guiding monitoring tool builds plus improving profitability for multiple portfolios at QBE, implementing many tactical and technical price changes at QBE with significant uplift and executing price optimisation for NRMA at IAG.As a leader who wants to see people succeed, I have led and developed capable, diverse teams. Genuine, honest, open and transparent, I take time to listen to team members to coach and develop them. I know how to treat people well and work together well. I have enjoyed seeing my team members receive promotions.My approach is led by trusting the process; If we fail we learn from it and can tweak for next time. Most of the time we succeed - we can learn from that and make it better next time too. Others describe me as reliable, accountable - taking responsibility for what I do. I’m passionate about making a difference to how things operate; increasing revenue, optimising performance, gaining efficiencies, synthesising processes and being innovative to make it easier for customers. My areas of expertise include:- Executive Leadership- Data and Insights- Actuarial Pricing Framework - Portfolio Management - Analytics- Performance Monitoring and Dashboards- Portfolio and Price Optimisation - Profitability Reviews - Technical and Financial Modelling - Performance Management- Board Paper Writing and Delivery- Process Improvement- Risk Management and Governance- Stakeholder Management - Project Management
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Head Of Portfolio Management - CommercialQbe Insurance Apr 2023 - PresentSydney, New South Wales, AustraliaI led the portfolio management function looking after 8 Commercial portfolios including Property, Liability, Commercial Motor, Marine, Aviation, Financial Lines, Accident and Health plus Workers Compensation. I identified performance drivers, understood markets and customers and knew the segments to target. Using data/analysis and monitoring tools I derived tactical actions to achieve strategic goals and the agreed annual budget. I delivered quarterly performance reporting for all 8 commercial portfolios.I received great feedback from QBE Group as the division with the highest quality performance reporting with Liability portfolio deep dive report being the highlight. I also increased insights to improve portfolio performance, undertaking a stocktake on existing monitoring dashboards to identify data and gaps in all portfolios. I collaborated with Actuarial to prioritise monitoring builds. -
Senior Pricing ManagerQbe Insurance Jun 2018 - Apr 2023Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaAs Senior Pricing Manager, I set up the technical and book price for the Business Packages and Commercial Motor portfolio. As the trusted advisor to the business I implemented actionable insights, set pricing strategies, tracked performance through portfolio monitoring, technical modelling, budgeting and running various projects.I controlled exposure growth with balanced pricing, in response to concerns for Far North Queensland exposure in the Business Packages book. I established a cross functional working group to investigate, formed hypotheses and provided a response. I implemented price changes across multiple regions and setup monitoring to check the exposure growth overtime.I improved the annual auditing review score for the team, governance, documentation and structure for each price change, and reduced key person risks. I created and implemented a price change framework, creating price modelling and price change documentation, enforced peer review for all price changes, and enforced price change awareness and communication to stakeholders to obtain timely sign-off with price change information. -
Balance Sheet Optimisation ManagerWestpac Group Dec 2017 - Jun 2018Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaAs Balance Sheet Optimisation Manager, I provided strategic advice on the Westpac Business Bank’s balance sheet position focusing on liquidity, funding and capital management. My advice ultimately drove pricing and portfolio optimisation decisions of individual products to meet overall targets of the business bank. -
Senior Portfolio And Pricing ManagerWestpac Group Aug 2016 - Nov 2017Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaI owned the end-to-end management of pricing and P&L of the payments portfolio within the Business Bank of Westpac Group. I built the right foundation for the payments business using industry best practices on fundamental portfolio management. I utilized data, reports and analytics to generate and execute business strategies to meet P&L targets and business requirements. I managed the end-to-end acquisition and retention strategies plus strategic pricing initiatives. Identifying market awareness was key, I partnered with marketing and used the remaining marketing spend to execute the first ever end to end St George Group above the line and below the line campaign for the payments portfolio. I delivered brochures and digital displays to branches and influenced and setup the first outbound team to run campaigns and retention initiatives using existing resources and budget. We gained 500+ new customers with very impressive transactional balance growth. -
Business Optimisation LeadIag Oct 2015 - Aug 2016Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaI led end to end management of pricing and P&L for the SGIC and SGIO insurance book. I analysed data, monitored key metrics, conducted deep dives into the business, gained competitor and customer insights, conducted market research and built strong relationships with various stakeholders to understand key performance drivers and achieve the budget together. I managed the end to end process of different campaigns and projects to drive the SGIC/O business in line with the overall IAG strategic goal. I signed off all price changes, initiated customer segment strategies and set the yearly budget.I developed more accurate ways to forecast P&L metrics and simplified the process, collaborating and reviewing with various stakeholders to lock down the reforecasts and annual budgets. -
Senior Pricing AnalystIag Oct 2013 - Oct 2015Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaI led price changes via price optimisation (profit vs. volume) for leading insurance brands (NRMA, RACV, SGIC and SGIO), pricing innovations (e.g. personalised excess levels), and various ad hoc analytical and reporting projects. I managed and trained junior members of the team.We over-achieved the budget, accomplishing sound pricing optimisation for all brands with an ideal balance in both profit and volume. I executed, reviewed and improved the price optimisation process. Testing and applying learnings, we made changes and engaged with stakeholders. We also improved the process to reduce project delivery time and resources by at least 50%.
Peter Yang Education Details
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Actuary -
Actuarial Studies -
Applied Finance
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Peter Yang attended Actuaries Institute, Macquarie University, Macquarie University.
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