Are you looking to progress your pensions career within a market-leading in-house pensions team? If you have experience in the management of trust-based UK occupational pension schemes; including overseeing governance activities and managing complex and material projects, we would like to hear from you. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on our UK pension schemes.

As an Assistant Pension Manager / Pension Scheme Secretary in the UK Pensions & Benefits team, you will support our trust-based defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes.

Job Responsibilities:

• Managing governance related activities and ensuring documentation and procedures are up to date, including; maintaining risk registers, business plans, and policies.
• Support the Trustee Boards in fulfilling their responsibilities, including providing support to the Pensions Manager in overseeing and coordinating projects as required.
• Act as a point of contact for advisers regarding ongoing activities, projects, correspondence, and member queries, including formal complaints.
• Assist in supervising the day-to-day provision of services by external providers, including administrators, actuaries, lawyers, investment consultants, and investment managers.
• Collaborate with other teams within HR and the Trustee to support employee engagement with their pension and other benefits.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience in providing secretarial and support services to trustee boards, with an understanding of both defined benefit and defined contribution schemes.
• Strong technical skills and broad knowledge of current UK pensions legislation and best governance practices.
• Analytical problem solver with the ability to make decisions based on a thorough understanding of relevant facts.
• Strong team player with excellent organisational skills, capable of managing varied and challenging priorities, taking ownership of projects, and being proactive and flexible.
• Relationship builder with strong influencing skills, effective communicator comfortable working at senior levels internally and externally.
• Strong focus on risk management.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• APMI qualified or working towards this qualification.