IMO Analyst

The IMO Analyst plays a key role in supporting the Integration Management Office (IMO) by providing analytical, planning, and reporting support across the integration programme, and maintaining and developing close working relationships with integration workstream leads, including workstream and squad-level amigos. The role underpins the effective operation of the IMO by helping to maintain accurate, joined‑up plans and high‑quality management information that enables clear oversight and informed decision‑making, using the appropriate programme tooling and the Ageas agile change framework. This position operates on a hybrid working basis and will require travel within the UK as needed. Travel will be predominantly to Reigate, Eastleigh and London, with occasional visits to other Ageas or esure locations.

Main Responsibilities as an IMO Analyst

• Support the IMO in the development, maintenance, and ongoing update of integrated delivery plans, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment across all integration workstreams.
• Collaborate with integration workstream leads to drive plan updates, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and key activities are kept up to date, and providing appropriate challenge and support with resolution, where required.
• Support the identification and tracking of cross‑workstream dependencies, escalating potential conflicts, delays, or impacts to the Planning & Reporting Manager, managing these using the agreed programme tooling and processes, including the Ageas agile change framework.
• Track delivery progress against agreed milestones and plans, highlighting slippage, variances, and emerging issues, working proactively with integration workstream leads.
• Manage traceability from synergy benefits, into strategic milestones and associated delivery plans; supporting and maintaining traceability framework and ensuring that reporting is aligned to that framework.
• Maintain core IMO planning and reporting artefacts, including the integrated plan, milestones tracker, decision tickets, RAID log, and action trackers with the appropriate tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence).
• Support the production of regular IMO, Executive, and Board‑level reporting, including status dashboards, summaries, and supporting analysis, ensuring that integration workstreams follow the agreed governance frameworks, including the Ageas agile change framework, templates and cadence.
• Advocate and support the adoption of new ways of working and tooling across Ageas, including working in partnership with the QBR team.
• Ensure reporting inputs are accurate, timely, and consistent with IMO standards, templates and governance requirements.
• Provide ad‑hoc analysis and insight to support IMO leadership with decision‑making and issue resolution.

Skills and experience you need as an IMO Analyst

• Previous experience of working in a Programme Office and/or Change Team.
• Previous experience working in a large scale, complex transformation programme with agile ways of working.
• Knowledge of Jira or other similar workflow tools is essential.
• Knowledge of Confluence, including ability to configure and integrate with Jira content.
• Domain knowledge and experience across the Insurance value chain.
• Highly organised and strong attention to detail.
• Good communicator with strong interpersonal skills, including at senior levels.
• Strong written, analytical and numerical skills.
• Ability to manage and engage with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Highly proficient in the use of MS Excel.
• Strong skills in MS Office – Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Benefits

• Flexible Working – Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares.
• We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
• Supporting your Health – Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.
• Supporting your Wealth – 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
• Supporting you at Work – Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
• Supporting you and your Family – Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
• Benefits for Them – Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
• Get some Tech – Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
• Getting around – Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
• Supporting you back to work – Return to work programme after maternity leave.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve Top Employer status in the UK. We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers. As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone. We have a zero‑tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism. Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full‑time, part‑time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us. Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.