Team – Group Operations
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth, London or Stockport Office. Full time hours per week.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
1. Stakeholder management
2. Requirements management
3. Excellent communication skills
What this role is all about:
We’re looking for a Senior Business Analyst to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering business-critical projects across Vitality on a 12-month FTC. Sitting at the heart of our Business Change function, you’ll work across the full project lifecycle - turning early ideas into clearly defined, well-scoped requirements, supporting solution design with architects, and ensuring what’s delivered meets both business needs and customer outcomes. You’ll assess the impact of proposed changes, manage risks and dependencies, and maintain clear traceability from requirement through to solution. Alongside delivery, you’ll help strengthen how we do analysis at Vitality - championing best practice, improving ways of working and supporting the development of other analysts.
Key Actions
4. Lead ideation analysis (where required) for new change initiatives
5. Identify and assess the organisational impact of proposed changes
6. Raise and manage project-level risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, providing mitigations and owning items where appropriate
7. Collaborate with Enterprise and Solution Architects to ensure designs meet functional and non-functional requirements
8. Define and support the approach to requirements management from initiation through to delivery
9. Ensure end-to-end traceability of requirements across projects and initiatives
10. Provide realistic, robust estimates for analysis deliverables for planning purposes
11. Act as an escalation point for business analysis activities during delivery
12. Proactively identify and lead continuous improvement initiatives within the Business Analysis Practice
13. Peer review BA outputs, providing constructive feedback and ensuring alignment to internal standards
14. Coach and support junior team members where required
15. Adhere to change management protocols in all analysis activity
16. Encourage and support project teams to follow change management processes
What do you need to thrive?
17. Experience engaging stakeholders at all levels across the organisation
18. Strong connection to industry best practice and the Business Analysis profession
19. Experience operating within complex matrix environments
20. Proven track record in producing a range of analysis artefacts
21. Experienced in coaching others on the effective use of analysis artefacts
22. Background working across both Agile and Waterfall environments
23. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
24. Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
25. Demonstrated ability to identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities
26. Strong understanding of business analysis approaches and methodologies
So, what’s in it for you?
27. Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
28. A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
29. Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
30. 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:
31. Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been
32. Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
33. Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work
34. Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
35. Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
36. Give you the space to try, fail and learn
37. Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
38. Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
39. Be there for you when you need us
40. 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.