About The Role

Team – Project Services

Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth, Stockport or London office. Full time hours per week. Please note this is a 12 month FTC opportunity.

We are happy to discuss flexible working!

Top 3 skills needed for this role:

Stakeholder management
Requirements management
Excellent communication skills

What this role is all about:

The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for the production of Business Analysis artefacts throughout the Business Change lifecycle, utilising a range of techniques and methods to elicit, verify and trace the successful delivery of requirements. To provide analysis services during the ideation, initiation, design and shaping and delivery phases of business change initiatives. Also to contribute towards continuous improvement of the Business Analysis Practice through leading on improvement initiatives, reviewing other BA outputs and coaching more junior team members.

Key Actions

Be responsible for performing Ideation analysis (when required) for new change initiatives
Identify the organisational impact of proposed change initiatives
Be responsible for raising project level risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies to Project, Product and Portfolio managers, offering mitigating actions and taking ownership of individual items where appropriate
Work with Enterprise and Solution Architects to ensure designs meet functional and non-functional requirements
Support project teams to agree an appropriate approach to requirements management during the initiation phase of a project and progression into Delivery
Ensure the traceability of requirements to solutions at a Project / initiative level
Estimate time required for deliverables applicable to self and/or others robustly and realistically for planning purposes
Proactively identify and lead delivery of a number of Business Analysis Practice improvement initiatives
Peer review the outputs of other Business analysts, offering constructive feedback where applicable and ensuring that in-house analysis standards are adhered to
Encourage and support project team peers to align to change management protocols and processes
Align to change management protocols and processes when conducting analysis activity

What do you need to thrive?

Experience working with stakeholders at all levels within an organisation
Has a close link to wider industry practices & the Business Analyst profession
Experience working within complex matrix management environment
Experience producing a range of analysis artefacts
Has coached others in the proficient use of analysis artefacts
Experience working in Agile and Waterfall change environments
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
Ability to multitask in an effective and organised manner
Evidence of identifying opportunities to continually improve ways of working
Excellent understanding of business analysis approaches and methodologies

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.

About Us

We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!

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.

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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.

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