DC Pensions Projects Specialist

Are you a self-motivated professional who is eager to contribute towards the success of projects delivery? Join us as a DC Pensions Projects Specialist supporting our LifeSight DC Master Trust in Redhill, with hybrid working.

You’ll play a key role in delivering a varied portfolio of projects, from BAU initiatives to business-critical client projects. Working across teams, you’ll represent the Administration function and help ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and to a high standard. Reporting to the Projects Team Leader, this is a great opportunity to take ownership, build your project expertise and contribute to the continued success of LifeSight.

The Role 

Project Delivery Support

• Taking responsibility for specific projects from end-to-end from gathering requirements to testing and rollout, with a keen eye to detail ensuring smooth and on time delivery.
• Liaising with other stakeholders as appropriate to ensure that requirements are well defined and understood to deliver the requested task. 
• Interpret client, team or business requirements in relation to their practical impact.
• Understanding the impact of change projects on our systems, teams and processes.
• Building and maintaining technical, procedural, process and client knowledge.
• Checking and challenging work performed by colleagues on team as appropriate and making sure that the requested work has been undertaken on time and to a high standard of quality. 
• Able to provide clear and constructive feedback when reviewing others work.
• Ensuring accuracy of time recording, estimates and billable work in line with the LS charging structure
• Working in a collaborative manner within a high-pressure environment to develop key relationships.
• Constant pursuit of improving team velocity and efficiency, allowing effective planning and diagnostics for the team.
• Participating in, contributing to or leading daily stand ups / huddles, team meetings and retrospectives and communicating effectively to team and leads.
• Escalating blockers, issues or concerns to Team Leads, as appropriate. 
• Providing regular updates to the Projects Portfolio Lead on any project work assigned to your ownership to aid stakeholder management and project status reporting.
• Coaching and mentoring other team members, building training materials and assisting with team growth.
• Being a point of reference for the LifeSight Administration team on technical issues, non-standard cases and project related queries

What U’ll bring

• Experience of dealing with DC occupational pension schemes or Master Trusts.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to organise and prioritise workloads for both yourself, and others. 
• Able to grasp new concepts quickly, demonstrating understanding of the implications of technical issues on business and client requirements and / or operations. 
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Keen eye to detail with ability to test changes against requirements and produce clear and high-quality test evidence. 
• Ability to influence, network and collaborate with stakeholders. 
• Self-motivated with the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and manage changing priorities. 
• Takes responsibility for assigned work including delegation and oversight in order to meet all project milestones. 
• Demonstrating a ‘can-do’ attitude, overcoming problems as they arise and maintaining high levels of performance when dealing with difficult and challenging work. 
• Able to present proposals by way of high-level solutions to end users and/or stakeholders. 
• Able to work to a high level of accuracy.

What We Offer

Enjoy a benefits package designed to help you thrive, both professionally and personally. You'll receive 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day to relax and recharge. Our comprehensive health and wellbeing offering includes private healthcare, life insurance, group income protection, and regular health assessments, all giving you peace of mind. Secure your future with our defined contribution pension scheme, featuring matched contributions up to 10% from the company.

We support your growth and balance with hybrid working options, access to an employee assistance programme, and a fully paid volunteer day to make a difference in your community. On top of these, you can opt into a variety of additional perks including an electric vehicle car scheme, share scheme, cycle-to-work programme, dental and optical cover, critical illness protection, and much more. Start making the most of your career and wellbeing with a range of benefits tailored for you.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We’re committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email [email protected]