Team – Clinical Leadership Team
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality London or Bournemouth Office. Full time hours.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
- Healthcare analytics expertise
- Influential data leadership
- Commercial risk mindset
What this role is all about:
As our Lead Healthcare Analyst, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how we manage healthcare claims, understand risk and improve performance, turning complex data into clear, compelling insight that drives real impact across the business. You’ll be a recognised expert in healthcare and claims analytics, setting the standard for analytical excellence and owning high‑risk, high‑impact challenges that help guide the organisation forward with confidence. This is a hands‑on leadership role where advanced analytics meets influence - leading complex workstreams end‑to‑end, developing analysts, and partnering closely with clinical, operational and commercial teams to turn insight into action.
Key Actions
- Own specialist delivery within their domain, acting as the recognised subject‑matter expert for complex, high‑impact analytical work, and leading critical analytical components of projects where deep expertise is required
- Shape strategic understanding by delivering insight across claims fund performance, utilisation, clinical risk, provider benchmarking, and emerging trends
- Provide evidence‑based analysis to manage cost, utilisation, risk, and value while balancing sustainability, clinical appropriateness, and member experience
- Create, implement and lead end‑to‑end delivery of complex analytical workstreams from methodology design through to insight
- Define and evolve scalable analytical capability to produce timely, high‑quality analysis and clear narratives to support senior strategic, clinical, and commercial decision‑making
- Lead on the development and enhancement of dashboards, and analytical assets, supporting automation and scalable insight delivery
- Establish and uphold analytical standards and governance, ensuring outputs are accurate, consistent, transparent, and compliant with regulatory and organisational requirements
- Design and deliver advanced analytical models to forecast claims fund performance, identify emerging cost and utilisation risks, and support proactive fund management decisions
- Lead the development of advanced analytical techniques to detect anomalous claims behaviour, emerging fraud risks, and assurance issues, providing proactive intelligence to support prevention and investigation
- Partner with Health Commercial and Health Operations teams to deliver advanced analytical insight that supports claims fund performance, utilisation management, and financial sustainability
What do you need to thrive?
- Senior‑level experience in UK healthcare insurance, health claims, public health or clinical analytics, operating as a Senior or Lead Analyst and delivering complex analysis end‑to‑end
- Proven use of analytics to support commercial, clinical and operational decision‑making, with strong healthcare claims or commercial acumen
- Deep specialist expertise in clinical and/or fraud analytics, applied to complex, high‑impact healthcare or claims challenges
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to present and influence senior and non‑technical audiences using clear, compelling insight
- Experience applying advanced analytical techniques (e.g. statistical modelling, segmentation, forecasting, anomaly detection) to claims, utilisation or risk
- Proven ability to work cross‑functionally across clinical, operational and commercial teams to support claims management, risk, fraud/assurance and financial sustainability
- Experience using BI and visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau
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! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:
- 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.
We’re incredibly proud to be recognised for the culture we've created — recently being named one of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work 2026, and in 2024 we were delighted to be awarded Top 10 Places to Work in the Sunday Times Awards.
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. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives – they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We’re successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people – and because we care.
Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.
Ready to find out if we’re the right fit for you? We can’t wait.
Diversity & Inclusion
At Vitality, we’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Vitality’s approach to sustainability
Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid
If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.
