Strategy Associate

Job Description:

Strategy Associate

London, Staines or Manchester

Permanent

£48k - £55k DOE and location + fantastic benefits

Hybrid up to 4 days WFH

37.5 hours per week

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

The role

As Strategy Associate you will have the opportunity to influence the future of Bupa. Working with BGIUK CEO, Chief Transformation Officer, Director of Strategy and Transformation and the Head of Strategy, you’ll help to shape our strategy and play a key role in supporting decision making at the Executive Team and Board level.

You’ll help us make health happen by

• Carrying out bespoke research and analysis to support strategic planning work, producing high-quality written outputs and briefing senior team members
• Contributing to the development of materials for Bupa’s key executive forums – including creating reports to support Executive and Board discussions and supporting the development and review of strategic planning activity for example three year business plans
• Act as a key conduit between the BGIUK CEO office and Transformation Office providing day-today support and advice, helping to plan Executive Team meetings, senior executive visits and liaising with stakeholders to develop content for ET discussions
• Administer and manage strategy development programmes
• Building relationships across Bupa to support effective collaborative working
• Play a role in team management and administration, helping to maintain key team filing structures, project archives, tools and templates and organise team meetings, catch-ups and events

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to provide clear and insightful messages, translating complex topics in simple, clear and data-led narrative
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to develop clear business insights
• Excellent people skills to build strong stakeholder relationships, influence senior stakeholders, and collaborate widely across the business
• Proven research and analysis skills and experience of using online and bespoke data sources
• Experience in strategy consulting or management consulting and healthcare is beneficial

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Strategy, Change & Transformation

Locations:

Nationwide