Project Analyst (Hybrid Working) in London

About The Role

Team - Enterprise R&D

Working Pattern - Hybrid - 2 days per week in the Vitality London Office. Full time, 37.5 hours per week. This enables faster and more effective advancement and deployment of the intellectual property underpinning Vitality’s Shared-Value Insurance proposition. The Strategic Projects Analyst sits within the Enterprise Strategic Support Office, supporting the Enterprise Executive to deliver against their strategic objectives in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment, while gaining meaningful exposure to senior leadership.

Key Actions

• Strategic Initiatives and Insights
• Identify and execute strategic projects such as finding innovative ways to apply AI to improve Enterprise ways of working.
• Perform analytical tasks and present findings to drive informed strategic decision making.
• Attend strategic meetings and participate in discussions to support executive level decision making.
• Support appropriate financial activities, including adhoc analysis and supporting the annual budget cycle process.
• Communication and Presentations
• Create compelling strategic narratives by translating technical workings of the Enterprise functions to share with key stakeholders and Executive Committees.
• Develop high-quality presentations and papers to communicate these narratives.
• Support the employee communications and engagement strategy for Enterprise including drafting communications, organising events and preparing the Enterprise Executive for employee engagements.
• Preparing and coordination of boards materials, creating, updating and reviewing dashboards, reviewing regular Enterprise reports.
• Administration
• Coordinate critical meetings such as Enterprise Executive Forum.
• Stakeholder management to follow up and drive actions with members of the forum.

What do you need to thrive?

• Experience in Insurance or Financial Services.
• Exceptional academic performance in an analytical or numerical degree.
• Demonstrated business and/or technical experience with a proven track record of innovation, entrepreneurship, delivery and performance, with the ability to translate strategic intent into tangible deliverables within quick turnaround time.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and research skills. Comfortable tackling complex challenges.
• Sophisticated written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop high-quality materials for executive levels internal and external audiences.
• Ability to handle change and navigate ambiguity.
• Strong organisational and administrative skills.
• High attention to detail and commitment to producing high-quality work.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Complete alignment to Vitality values and core purpose.
• Reliability, accountability and strong ownership of tasks.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel & PowerPoint in particular).
• Creative thinking and proven track record of the ability to operationalise innovation.

Desirable Skills

• Strong drive to exceed expectations.
• Qualified or part-qualified actuary with strong progress through actuarial exams.
• AI-fluent, with experience applying generative AI to solve practical business problems and deliver measurable value.
• Advanced SQL skills and strong proficiency in Python or R, with experience working with large and complex datasets.

So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes - A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance.
• A pension of up to 12% - We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary.
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance - With its own set of rewards and benefits.
• Life Assurance - Four times annual salary.
• These are just some of the many perks that we offer!
• Great career opportunities!
• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy. Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place. We’ve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1 - long before it became fashionable. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives - they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme.

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