Head of Healthcare Analytics

About The RoleTeam - Risk Intelligence & Ops MIWorking Pattern - Hybrid - 2 days per week in either of our London or Bournemouth Vitality Offices. Full time hours. We are happy to discuss flexible working!Top 3 skills needed for this role:

• Advanced Healthcare Analytics Expertise
• Leadership & Stakeholder Influence
• Clinical Risk, Claims Fund, or Healthcare Performance Knowledge

What this role is all aboutThe Head of Healthcare Analytics leads Vitality's analytics strategy, ensuring high-quality, trusted insight to support claims fund management, clinical risk oversight and service improvement. You will guide healthcare analytics priorities, lead a high-performing team, and turn complex clinical and claims data into clear, actionable insight for operational, clinical, commercial and strategic decisions.Key ActionsLead analytics across:

• Claims fund performance and utilisation
• Clinical and population risk adjustment
• Trend analysis
• Provider benchmarking
• Care pathway optimisation

Support claims fund management by:

• Producing clear insight on trends, cost pressures and utilisation
• Driving value improvement through optimisation and reimbursement design
• Ensuring accurate and trusted analytics for senior leaders
• Delivering analysis to support strategic, clinical and commercial decisions
• Using analytics to identify fraud risks and unusual claims patterns
• Leading complex projects with strong cross-functional alignment
• Building effective stakeholder relationships across key functions
• Overseeing MI, dashboards, tools and model development
• Developing a high-performing analytics team
• Maintaining governance, accuracy and regulatory compliance

What you need to thrive

• Experience in UK health insurance, public health or health analytics
• Strong analytical judgement and ability to simplify complexity
• Proven leadership and team development skills
• Confident stakeholder engagement and influencing
• Collaborative leadership style with clear direction-setting
• Ability to deliver high-quality outputs at pace
• Skills in advanced analytics, modelling and modern data tools

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

To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page.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.About The CompanyWe'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. Diversity & InclusionAt 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 sustainabilityVitality 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.If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early.