Benefits Specialist - Performance and Reward

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If you’re looking for a career that will unlock new opportunities, join HSBC and experience the possibilities. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and Rewards that will take you further.

We have an excellent skilled Benefits Specialist to join our established Performance & Reward team. You’ll contribute to the further development and implementation of benefit design and policy ensuring we remain an  employer of choice.

Human Resources leads the implementation of the Group’s people strategy in line with business objectives. We facilitate talent management, succession planning and employee mobility while defining and overseeing frameworks that support employee performance management, reward, learning and development, resourcing and engagement.  

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role you will:

• Support benefit policy design and seek opportunities to introduce operational efficiencies across the team.
• Assess the effectiveness of benefit policies and processes and pro-actively recommend new and innovative approaches and solutions.
• Provide expertise to review and interpret the results of market benchmarking, be able to summarise key market trends for stakeholders in P&R and broader HR and consider how the results should be applied to local benefit strategy.
• Provide expert guidance on requests for information on benefit policies, processes and procedures.
• Support with the design and project implementation of the entire P&R benefits agenda. With particular focus on:
  • Health and Insured benefits
  • Broader benefits, including leave policies 

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

•    Deep benefits domain experience, evidenced through contributing to the strategic development of benefit policy and supporting the end to end delivery. 
•    Skilled project and stakeholder management, with excellent communication skills producing well written business cases/proposals.
•    Comfortable working in an environment with competing priorities and a fast pace.
•    Agile mindset, data literate, with the ability to support a broad benefits portfolio with an action orientated approach (focus on outcomes and results). 
•    Experience of delivering Benefits and Pensions in a large, global matrixed organisation with internal delivery partners (e.g. HR Operations).
•    Ideally an understanding of pensions and/or Merger and Acquisitions (M&A) from a benefits perspective.

This role is based in: London or Birmingham with hybrid working.

Opening up a world of opportunity.

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our recruitment processes are accessible to everyone -  no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.

We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse.

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