Programme Analyst

Programme Analyst 

Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Eastleigh, Glasgow, Leatherhead, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Perth, Sheffield, Worthing, York

Salary: from £45,000 + bonus + excellent benefits

Turn AI programme data into better decisions

Aviva's Chief AI Office sits at the centre of an enterprise-wide transformation spanning markets, functions and customer journeys. It connects strategy with delivery, adoption and governance, helping the business apply AI faster, more safely and with clearer evidence of value. You'll join while the function is taking shape, helping establish how Aviva moves from individual AI opportunities to responsible, measurable change at scale.

Good programme decisions depend on accurate information, clear analysis and visible evidence of value. In this AI portfolio analyst opportunity, you'll create the integrated view that helps leaders understand progress, investment, benefits, dependencies and risk across Aviva's AI transformation.

A bit about the job:

As a Programme Analyst, you’ll be the operational anchor of Aviva’s transformation, acting as the glue across teams to track progress, surface key insights and remove blockers. Your day-to-day will be rooted in delivering core programme reporting and robust project governance, turning complex delivery data into crystal-clear executive dashboards and reliable benefits tracking. Working closely with the Head of AI Programme Delivery, Domain Leads, Finance, CIO and the wider Chief AI Office, you’ll champion a culture of identifying and mitigating risks, providing the rigorous decision support needed to back our mission with traceable evidence. 

You'll be responsible for:

• Building and improving dashboards covering portfolio health, milestones, dependencies, risk, investment and benefits
• Maintaining the integrated programme plan and identifying critical-path movement and emerging delivery pressure
• Producing concise progress reports and governance materials for programme leaders and senior stakeholders
• Tracking forecast and realised benefits, costs and evidence of value across the portfolio
• Analysing trends, variances and root causes, turning data into practical options and recommendations
• Improving data quality, simplifying controls and automating repeatable reporting where it adds value.
• Measured on: Timely benefit realization, cost discipline, as well as contribution to team goals such as speed of AI deployment (from idea to production), enterprise AI portfolio compliance level with risk standards, enterprise AI adoption

You'll bring experience in many of these areas:

• Experience in a programme analyst, PMO, portfolio reporting or enterprise delivery role
• Strong programme-controls capability across plans, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions and actions
• Experience producing dashboards, governance packs and concise reporting for senior stakeholders
• Analytical skills across trends, variance, benefits, investment and value tracking
• The confidence to challenge incomplete information and secure high-quality inputs from busy stakeholders
• Experience in a complex transformation, financial services or regulated environment would be useful.

Why Aviva?

AI is already making a difference across Aviva through areas such as claims summarisation, medical underwriting, customer service and fraud detection. The Chief AI Office is creating a reliable enterprise view of the investment, delivery, benefits, dependencies and risk behind that activity.

Across a business serving more than 25 million customers globally, your analysis will help leaders prioritise attention, test confidence in benefits and intervene where delivery, dependencies or evidence are off track.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• National Salary from £45,000 + bonus + excellent benefits (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity 10% of annual salary - Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s

• Generous pension scheme eg if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14%

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Harjot Kaur a call on +44 7353138456 or send an email to harjot.kaur@aviva.com