Head of Analytics (Healthcare, Insurance)

Robert Walters is supporting a leading UK insurance business with the appointment of a senior analytics leader to shape insight across its healthcare portfolio.

This is a high-profile role for someone who can combine technical analytics, commercial judgement and leadership. You will oversee insight across claims activity, clinical trends, provider performance and healthcare utilisation, helping senior stakeholders make better decisions around cost, quality and customer outcomes.

The role would suit someone from private medical insurance, healthcare analytics, public health, claims analytics, clinical data, actuarial insight or another regulated data environment.

• Lead analytical work across healthcare costs, claims trends, treatment pathways and provider performance
• Turn complex clinical and claims datasets into clear insight for senior decision-makers
• Develop MI, dashboards, models and automated reporting to improve visibility of key trends
• Support better decision-making around claims spend, clinical risk and service quality
• Identify unusual claims patterns, leakage risks and opportunities for improved intervention
• Partner with clinical, commercial, operational, pricing and actuarial stakeholders
• Lead, coach and develop a small specialist analytics team
• Maintain strong standards around data quality, governance and reporting accuracy

• Experience in healthcare insurance, claims analytics, health data, public health or a similarly complex analytical setting
• Strong analytical judgement and the ability to explain complex findings clearly
• People leadership experience within an analytics, MI or data function
• Confident stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Strong technical capability across SQL, BI tools, modelling or advanced analytics
• Ability to balance commercial performance, clinical quality and customer/member outcomes

• Annual bonus scheme
• Pension contribution up to 12%
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Hybrid working 2 days in office
• Broad wider benefits package

This is a strong opportunity for an analytics leader who wants to influence healthcare strategy, improve claims performance and build a trusted insight function within a respected UK insurance brand.

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