Lead Specialist

4 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Wood Mackenzie Full time

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve - providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

**Job Description**:
As a member of the Reward Centre of Excellence within the Wood Mackenzie Human Resources team, the Lead Specialist, Reward will have responsibility for the seamless and efficient management of employee benefits in the UK, Europe, Middle East and APAC.

Initially, the role will have a primary focus on the centralization of employee benefits in Wood Mackenzie, as it separates from its parent company in 2023. A strong project management focus on a seamless transition of offerings is expected, particularly in the UK where benefits and platforms are highly integrated with the parent organization. The role holder will be technically capable, and familiar in navigating the implementation of a benefits platform, partnering with third party suppliers, IT colleagues and other stakeholders to achieve a seamless deployment. In working to establish a standalone environment, the role holder will conduct a wider review of benefits across EMEA and APAC, with a view to creating a regular cadence of offering review, reocmmendation and renewal in partnership with appropriate internal stakeholders.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Support employee benefit offerings through the life cycle from data collection, implementation, systems management, policy renewals, annual enrolment and BAU
- Drive increased rigour in the central management of regional benefits, ensuring an improved cycle of review and renewals
- Act as primary interface with brokers and providers, escalating and collaboratively resolving any issues as required
- Partner closely with the HR People Services team to ensure smooth transactional support for employee benefits, including education to assist in query resolution
- Handle case escalations and support employees, HR and the business in understanding local benefits plans
- Take ownership of benefit delivery processes to ensure all stakeholders understand roles and responsibilities
- Complete regular reporting requirements and ensure seamless interface with Payroll and HRIS teams as required
- Work with brokers to negotiate appropriate commercial terms in recommending a competitive employee package by location
- Partner with the Internal Communications team to ensure appropriate levels of employee awareness, promotion and engagement on benefits matters
- Work with third party suppliers for benefits benchmarking data and be the SME within the wider HR community to promote understanding of local and regional practices to support development/ growth of business units as well as M&A activity
- Input and support on ad-hoc projects, including potential M&A integration

**Deliverables**
- Seamless transition of Wood Mackenzie EMEA & APAC benefits to BAU state, following separation from Verisk
- Effective project management of, and active participation in, seamless transition to Wood Mackenzie Darwin benefits platform for annual open enrolment window
- Centralised view of all EMEA & APAC benefits, with an associated calendar for review and renewal
- Clear recommendations to HR Leadership regarding any commercial changes to plans, or new benefits to adopt
- Effective partnership with HR People Services, Payroll and Finance to ensure seamless transactional support for EMEA & APAC benefits

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**Qualifications**:

- Experience in benefits administration across the range including retirement plans, insurances such as private medical or risk insurances
- Good understanding of Benefits and HR policies and practices within the UK is essential; experience of international benefits is highly desirable
- Project management skills and ability to work independently and execute key deliverables
- Strong technical capability, with previous experience of implementing a benefits platform
- Soft skills: Investigative, keen to learn and find new solutions and open to change
- Great communication skills both with internal and external stakeholders
- Strong team work and collaboration skills
- Strong Microsoft Office Suite skills especially in Excel (data management, pivot tables, vlookups)
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