R&D Actuarial Analyst NEW

Vitality

hackajob is collaborating with Vitality to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Team – Enterprise R&D

Working Pattern – Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality London Office. Full time, 37.5 hours per week.

We are happy to discuss flexible working!

Top 3 skills needed for this role:

• Demonstrated data driven insight
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Product and behavioural thinking experience

What this role is all about

The role will support research, idea generation and product development across the Vitality Programme, our health and wellbeing behaviour change programme. In this role, you’ll use analytical thinking and creativity to develop new products from concept to implementation. You’ll turn data on member behaviour, engagement and performance into impactful, wellness-focused propositions. Working with digital product and marketing teams, you’ll help bring ideas to life for our members. This role suits a well-rounded actuarial analyst who is curious about behaviour, passionate about wellness, confident with stakeholders and motivated by seeing their analysis drive real outcomes.

Key Actions

• Analyse member behaviour, engagement and programme performance to inform product and proposition decisions
• Extract and analyse data from multiple sources using SQL
• Support pricing, evaluation and impact assessment of Vitality products and benefits
• Apply actuarial techniques to assess impacts on mortality, morbidity and persistency
• Translate analysis into clear insights and product ideas
• Produce and present high-quality materials for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Build business cases, product specifications and monitoring frameworks
• Conduct research into wellness, behaviour change and competitors
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, digital, marketing, data science and clinical teams
• Contribute across the end-to-end product lifecycle from concept to implementation, including specification and delivery
• Support development of new ideas and propositions aligned to business strategy

What do you need to thrive?

• Part qualified actuary with strong progress through professional exams
• Proven experience using SQL to extract, manipulate and analyse complex datasets
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Experience supporting pricing, product evaluation or actuarial analysis
• Understanding of key actuarial concepts including mortality, morbidity and persistency
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non technical audiences
• Strong collaborative mindset, with experience working cross functionally with product, digital or marketing teams
• Curiosity, initiative and a drive to see analysis translated into real product outcomes
• Experience with Python or R for data analysis

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.