Senior Data Analyst (12160)

Do you want to make a real difference to the lives of millions of customers? Put your seriously strong critical thinking and analytical skills to test, and do just that.  

As an insight-led, modern mutual we are driven to focus on the most impactful things that we can do to improve financial resilience for millions of customers, and in playing our part in moving fairly to a sustainable world. By joining the Royal London team, you’ll get to work on really interesting opportunities, involving complex data sets and using a modern tech stack.   

Over the next 12 months, we are looking to grow our Data Analysis practice and we are looking for colleagues to join us at all levels. Visit our recruitment site to see our current vacancies.   

Right now, we are looking for talent for the following teams:   

Senior Data Analysts in our Data & AI Strategy team to work with senior business stakeholders to conduct analysis of complex, multidimensional problems that will help us to identify and prioritise strategic opportunities for value. Successful candidates will need a strong track record of using their analytical skills, and applying robust statistical methods, to identify key value drivers and model potential scenarios to inform our decision making at a strategic level.  

Senior Data Analysts in our Data Solutions team to work with our team of data engineers, data scientists and senior business stakeholders to apply cutting edge analytics to turn our data into actionable customer and business insights.  Successful candidates will need strong analytical skills, curiosity to seek out the gems of insight within our data assets, and excellent business understanding and communications skills to bring those findings to life for our business.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with senior business stakeholders and technical subject matter experts to explore strategic opportunities for value, mining complex datasets using advanced analytical techniques to uncover trends, patterns, and insights that can inform strategic decision-making, prioritisation and increase our conviction in attainable value. 

• Articulate the value of an insight-led approach in business decision making through effective storytelling, by presenting your findings as actionable insights for senior leaders in a clear and concise manner to support strategic decision-making which will deliver real change.  

• Liaise with subject matter experts to identify data that is important and collaborate with colleagues to define effective approaches to deliver a path to value. 

• Ensure integrity and accuracy in all analyses, recommendations and evaluations. 

Experience: 

• Strategic thinker with a proven track record of analytical problem-solving using complex data and statistical methods to drive insight-led, strategic decision-making 

• An inquisitive mind, constantly looking at opportunities with curiosity, and confident in handling complexity and ambiguity  

• For the Data Strategy role, we are looking for colleagues who are skilled and experienced in statistical analysis and modelling, proficient in data wrangling and data feature engineering; experienced in relevant data technologies such as Azure, DataBricks, PowerBI, and coding languages such as Python, SQL ideally experience using Git to ensure a robust, versioned and traceable codebase 

• Strong influencing and communication skills, with the ability to convey complex messages and concepts to non-technical stakeholders 

• Willing to embrace new opportunities to learn, keen to champion and embrace opportunities for innovation  

• Desirable - an understanding and experience of behavioural science techniques 

• Desirable – motivation to coach and develop data analysis skills in others  

Why Join Us? 

• Be part of a team that is motivated by purpose and which values innovation and insight-led decision-making. 

• Work in a collaborative environment with opportunities for professional growth and development. 

• Enjoy working with a modern technology stack and gnarly business problems and data sets.

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.   

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits  

Inclusion, diversity and belonging 

We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.