Benefits Specialist in City of London

Job description

Benefits Lead

Our client, a leading insurance and financial services organisation, is seeking a Reward Benefits Lead to join their Reward team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a benefits professional who enjoys shaping and managing employee benefits, working with stakeholders at all levels, and ensuring employees get the very best from their total reward package.

The Role

The Reward Benefits Lead will take ownership of the UK and international benefits offering, playing a central role in delivering a fair, competitive, and engaging benefits strategy. Key responsibilities include:

• Benefits Management: Manage the day-to-day delivery of UK and international employee benefits, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and employee satisfaction.
• Renewals & Vendor Management: Lead annual renewals across core benefits such as healthcare, pensions, life assurance, and risk benefits, working closely with insurers, brokers, and advisers to ensure cost-effective, high-quality solutions.
• Benefits Technology: Maintain and enhance the benefits portal, ensuring employees have clear and accessible information on their options.
• Data & Compliance: Provide accurate data to payroll and HR operations, ensuring compliance with internal governance and regulatory requirements within a financial services environment.
• Wellbeing & Engagement: Support the delivery of wellbeing initiatives and communications to drive awareness, understanding, and take-up of benefits.
• Global Coordination: Collaborate with international HR colleagues to align benefits offerings where possible, balancing local competitiveness with global consistency.
• Projects & Reporting: Contribute to wider Reward projects, such as reporting, benefits benchmarking, and market reviews.

The Candidate

The ideal candidate will bring a mix of technical benefits expertise and strong relationship management skills, including:

• Experience managing employee benefits, ideally within financial services, insurance, or a complex international environment.
• Strong understanding of benefits markets and providers, with experience managing external advisers and vendors.
• Organised and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, able to engage confidently with employees, HR colleagues, and external partners.
• A proactive, curious, and solutions-focused mindset, always looking for ways to enhance the employee experience.
• Knowledge of pensions, healthcare, risk benefits, and UK regulatory considerations is desirable.

Why This Role?

• This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and collaborative Reward team in a leading insurance firm. You’ll directly shape the benefits offering, ensuring employees across the UK and internationally are rewarded in ways that truly matter. In return, you’ll enjoy flexible working, exposure to a range of reward initiatives, and the chance to make a tangible impact on employee engagement.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

City of London

Type of Contract

Part-time jobs

Published at

09-10-2025

Profession type

Accountancy

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English