Operations Intern
Anywhere in France, Belgium, Spain
Process & Operations – Ops /
Internship /
Hybrid
🐼 Who we are
Never Alone with Alan. The health partner, who prevents, insures, and cares daily.
Our mission is a healthier humanity. For our members, getting extra happy years of life. For our companies: the best people return on investment.
We partner with 22,000 companies, more than 500,000 members and are at €350m+ ARR. We now operate in France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸 and Belgium 🇧🇪. The team is 580 people, and growing all over Europe.
🤘 How we do it ?
People joining Alan are always surprised and delighted by our innovative working method. We have a set of cultural values that guide our approach to work, such as:
- Members first. We put our members first, our team second, our shareholders third.
- Radical Transparency. We make all choices in writing and adopt a direct and honest style of communication.
- Personal & Team Growth. We are self-improving whilst helping others grow. We’re no ego-doers and we all edit the company.
- Distributed Ownership. We trust our colleagues to make the right choices. We are not afraid to fail fast individually to learn collectively in the long run.
- Fearless ambition. We shoot for the moon and work backwards. We focus on solving complex problems with simple principles far from ready made ideas.
⭐️ Operations at Alan ⭐️
Our Operations team guarantees the delivery at scale of our insurance and healthcare products, efficiently and delightfully. On a day-to-day basis, this means running, building and industrializing processes to deliver the vision and contributing to our strategy by bringing Ops perspective.
As we anchor our Insurance position in France, diversify our offering with health and well-being-related services and expand into an international platform, our operations are becoming very complex and our challenges ahead have never been as exciting!
Being an Ops at Alan means joining a team of 30+ talented, committed and passionate Ops experts from three different countries, with a lot of interactions with Engineering, Product, Care and many other teams at Alan.
⭐️ Mission ⭐️
🌍 For this role, you need to be based out of France, Belgium or Spain 🌍
The Operations Community’s core responsibilities is to build and strengthen our operational capabilities and scale our platform efficiently to handle a unique member and customer experience supporting fast growth while optimizing our performance and resources.
We want team members to deliver excellence and be ready to improve and disrupt the way we traditionally think about insurance or healthcare services, and truly re-engineer the experience we offer to our members.
The Operations intern core responsibilities are to :
* run our processes, related to Insurance or medical services
* ensure the day-to-day follow up and monitoring of our operations to enable them to scale at a fast pace
* define, build, implement and follow up improvement and mitigation plans
In details, we expect
Day-to-day business management :
* Assist in performing daily operations to support service delivery
* Learn and contribute to the development of monitoring schemes to track volumes, efficiency, SLAs, and identify risks and areas of improvement
* Provide support to internal team members, particularly the Care Team (assisting them in answering questions from members)
* Assist in performing controls on operations to ensure correct decisions are made and help identify training needs (internally as well as externally)
* Contribute with ideas to improve our processed and gain exposure to various aspects of the business and operations, working closely with experienced team members to learn and develop skills
Product and processes development support :
* Observe and share insights about operational challenges, and contribute ideas to the short, mid, and long-term strategy
* Assist in identifying and prioritizing initiatives to make processes and services more efficient, cost-effective, and delightful for members
* Collaborate with team members to support the development and improvements of the platform, focusing on efficiency, scalability, and member satisfaction
* Assist in conducting research and analysis to support data-driven decisions for product and process improvements
⭐️ Profile and competencies we are looking for ⭐️
- Strong in written and verbal communication in English, as well for French or Dutch
- Passionate about delivering top notch operations: not scared to get your hands dirty to dig into technical processes, making them clear and delightful for our operators and members
- A proactive attitude and the ability to seek guidance and learn from experienced team members as needed
- An analytical mindset and the ability to problem-solve, even without prior work experience
- Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment
- A fast learner: to learn new tools, technologies, and methodologies highly organised with exceptional follow-up skills
- Strongly accountable and are able to show empathy for fellow Alaners and members
- Mindful of product and member experience with high member centricity
- A no-ego doer: you want the best for your teammates and put the success of the company and the team before your own
- Adaptable: you show flexibility and a strong ability to adapt to variable situations
- Some exposure to or interest in the insurance or healthcare industry
- Basic SQL knowledge or a willingness to learn, which would enable you to become more autonomous when working with data during the internship
You would be a good fit for the role if you are:
It’s even better if you have:
As a few examples of how we put this value into action:
- We have an open salary & equity policy combined with a transparent career path: we base our people decisions on unbiased criteria
- We have flexible working hours and leave policy
- We trust people to work remotely (we are a "work from anywhere" company)
- We extend the length of parental leave and value this time as professional experience
- We respect our coworkers gender identity and use their names, pronouns and agreements regardless of their legal status
- We make tough decisions if we see discriminatory remarks
At Alan, we believe that being in good health is a basic need, and it starts with our employees. This is why Alaners are provided with a stimulating environment and perks ensuring they are happy, efficient and spend only high-quality time with co-workers.
Therefore, we offer:
- Fair rewards. Generous equity packages complement your base salary, for permanent contracts only.
- Flexible Office. Amazing office space at our HQ, sponsored co-working hubs or a full-remote experience with home office equipment sponsorship, we want you to live where you’re the happiest.
- All the tools you need. Top of the range equipment: Macbook Pro, keyboard, laptop stand, monitor, and Bose noise-canceling headphones.
- Flexible vacation policy and flexible working hours. Organize your time as you wish.
- Delightful healthcare insurance. Extremely comprehensive health insurance - 100% of the contribution covered by Alan for you and your family, for permanent contracts only.
- Transport. Country-specific commuter benefits.
- Learning & Training opportunities. A highly flexible Training policy free books and budget to attend and speak at conferences if the opportunity arises.
- Parental leave. Extended parental leave for all new parents, for permanent contracts only.
Important note: we hire people not roles.
After reading this job description, if you feel like you don’t have all the necessary prerequisites but that it matches where you are now or what you'd like to grow into in your next position, we encourage you to apply!
Not everybody will enter our recruitment process, but all, no matter how underrepresented, should feel free to apply as it can only bring learnings or success.
🔖 Check out our About Alan and Career pages, as well as our Medium, blog and Glassdoor page for more info.
