Hire insurance pricing talent you can't find on the market.
Trained junior pricing analysts, deployed into your team and backed by us for the whole contract.
Losing capability, margin and momentum because the pricing talent pipeline is broken? You're not alone, and it isn't fixed by searching harder. Pathfinders™ by FlarePeople is the UK's only recruit-train-deploy programme built for insurance pricing. We find people with the aptitude for pricing in the pools conventional hiring misses, train them for ten weeks, and deploy them into your team as junior analysts who are ready to work. If any of the six challenges we hear from pricing leaders sound like yours, this is the page for you.
How long until your next hire is truly useful?
Put in your own numbers and see roughly how many months of pricing capacity you'd get back with Pathfinders™.
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A recruiter introduces you to someone and the relationship usually ends there. We build the analyst. Every Pathfinder has completed the Pathfinders Academy before they reach you: pricing tools, methods and business context, taught by practising pricing experts on realistic pricing data. Then we stay close for the whole contract, with mentoring, check-ins and ongoing development. It's a scalable, end-to-end talent solution for your pricing team, now and for the next intake.
The Pathfinders™ Academy in action.
Pathfinders™
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What you get.
A trained analyst, not a CV
Every Pathfinder has completed the 10-week Academy before they join you.
Pricing-specific from day one
GLMs, Radar, Python, SQL and MI, taught on realistic pricing data in an insurance context.
An initial contract, typically 24 months
With the option to take them on permanently at the end, with no transfer fee.
Support that doesn't stop at placement
Check-ins, mentoring and ongoing development from the FlarePeople team.
Training shaped to your tools
Parts of the Academy can be tailored to your processes, tools and objectives.
A pipeline, not a one-off
Plan follow-on intakes so vacancies stop being emergencies.
How this differs from hiring a pricing analyst using traditional recruitment.
Traditional recruitment
- What you get
- An introduction to one person
- Time to value
- 3-4 month search, no guarantee
- After they start
- Relationship usually ends
- Making it permanent
- New fee to hire elsewhere
Pathfinders™
- What you get
- A trained, supported, deployable analyst
- Time to value
- Defined 10-week academy
- After they start
- Mentoring, check-ins and reporting throughout
- Making it permanent
- Convert with no transfer fee
Pathfinders™ are deployed on an initial contract, typically 24 months, after which you can take them on permanently with no transfer fee.
Hear from recent Pathfinders.
Every Pathfinder we've trained is now working as a pricing analyst with a UK insurer. Hear what they made of the Academy and their first months in a pricing team.
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Questions about hiring Pathfinders.
What is a Pathfinder?
A Pathfinder is a junior insurance pricing analyst trained and placed by FlarePeople. They are selected for aptitude rather than experience, complete the 10-week Pathfinders Academy (pricing tools, methods, governance and insurance context), and then join a UK insurer's pricing team on an initial contract, typically 24 months, with FlarePeople's support throughout. At the end of the contract you can take them on permanently.
How long is the contract and what happens at the end?
Pathfinders are deployed on an initial contract, typically 24 months. At the end you can take them on permanently, with no transfer fee, or we talk about what you need next. By the end of the contract the Pathfinder knows your lines, your tools and your governance, which is the point of the model.
Can we shape the training to our tools and processes?
Yes. The core Academy is fixed, because the fundamentals of pricing do not change from one insurer to the next, but parts of it can be tailored to your tools, processes and objectives so the Pathfinder arrives ready for your environment rather than a generic one.
How is this different from hiring a contractor?
A contractor sells you experience by the day and leaves with it. A Pathfinder is trained for your team, supported by us throughout the contract and designed to become a permanent member of it. You are building capability that stays, not renting it. The comparison on the how-it-works page sets this against traditional recruitment and graduate schemes.
What does it cost?
It depends on how many Pathfinders you need, how much of the training is tailored to you, and when you need them to start. Every proposal is built around your goals, so the quickest way to a number is a discovery call with Anthony.