Lead Healthcare Analyst
Hackajob
IT
bournemouth, uk
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
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
- 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
- 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
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