Team – Data and Information Services
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth Office. Full time, 35 hours per week.
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
- Problem Solving with a Curious Mindset
- Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Interest in Data Analysis and how data is Structured
What this role is all about:
This role sits between business and data, helping shape how data is used to support decisions, improve processes, and deliver better outcomes across Vitality UK.
You’ll work with stakeholders to understand problems, ask the right questions, and translate business needs into clear data requirements and solutions. You’ll gain hands-on experience across the full lifecycle, from early discovery through to delivery. Focusing on building your skills in data analysis, requirements, testing, and how data is structured and used to generate insight.
We welcome applicants at all stages of their career. Whether you’re a recent graduate, self taught, or bringing hands on experience. If you’re passionate about data and keen to grow, we’d love to hear from you.
Key Actions
- Support the design and delivery of data solutions by working with stakeholders to understand business needs and helping translate them into clearly documented data requirements.
- Lead and support requirements gathering activities using techniques such as workshops, brainstorming sessions, interviews, modelling and more. You'll be capturing key information and turn it into clear, structured documentation which evolves with the needs of the business.
- Assist in assessing the impact of changes to existing data assets and ensure consistency across outputs.
- Work closely with data engineers and technical teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood and implemented correctly within data flows and systems.
- Work closely with stakeholders across the Vitality Group, contributing to projects from the very beginning through to delivery, and communicating clearly to keep everyone aligned.
- Assist with building business cases, helping to define what’s in scope and ensuring that each request for data asset has a clear purpose and is genuinely achievable.
- Support data validation and testing activities, ensuring outputs align with business logic, data definitions, and expected outcomes, ensuring any issues or gaps are highlighted.
- Assist with the set-up and ongoing maintenance of automated outputs, helping to monitor for issues and ensure information is delivered accurately and on time.
- Collaborate with other Information Analysts to provide first‑line support for data queries, helping to diagnose issues and understand their impact
- Develop a solid grounding in how Vitality works, its data, business processes and analytics community, so you can support meaningful change and help ensure data developments land effectively.
What do you need to thrive?
- Keen interests in business and technology, and particularly regarding data, analysis and software development
- Basic understanding of how data is structured and used, including how it flows through systems.
- Foundational experience using SQL to interrogate data, validate outputs, and support problem solving
- Foundational understanding of visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI)
- Investigative, analytical and logical problem-solving skills
- Strong knowledge of general software – in particular Word, PowerPoint
- Excel knowledge, including macros, pivots, complex formula, graphical summarisation & reporting
- Ability to quickly learn new skills
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.