Benefits Specialist

**_Ocado Group is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, age, or disability or union membership status._**

**About us**

**About the role**

We have an exciting opportunity for an International Benefits Specialist to join the Ocado Reward Team. In this role you will be responsible for the smooth running and set up of benefits and pensions (or similar investment programmes) across various Geographic Regions such as the UK, EMEA or AsiaPac.

Reporting into the Global Benefits Manager, you will be responsible for supporting brokering activities, benchmarking, advising on local trends or legislations that will impact your area, reporting on employee engagement, benefits education and process improvement and set up, as well as resolving employee benefit queries.

We work in an agile and autonomous environment with a strong emphasis on collaboration and knowledge sharing. This is a great time to join Ocado as we expand our cutting-edge online retail technology solutions across the globe where you will have a direct impact on delivering key project milestones for our reward strategy.

**You will be**:

- ** Supporting the Global Benefits Manager in developing and implementing benefit arrangements for your region/countries..**Oversee new benefit rollout including comms, process and stakeholder management.**Identify and resolve issues (sometimes complex), including providing support and guidance to employees on benefit related resolutions.**Collaborate with stakeholders to keep them informed of regional benefit activity and also when resolving larger escalations.**Be the first point of escalation resolution for benefits and pensions (where Benefits+, helpdesk or Group Ops are not set up in country).**Supporting benefits renewal in your region**-
**Assesses new and emerging benefits: Recommend new benefits, policies, programs and changes based on review of current benefits offerings, employee needs analysis, market trends, and global benefits strategy, aligning with the Benefits Manager and/or Benefits Head before recommendations are made.**Create (and keep up to date) benefit guides relevant to all employee life stages for our employees.**Contributes to improving the effectiveness of products and processes.**Keeps abreast of all relevant laws (e.g. Mercer/Aon portals, through brokers, benefit networks etc.), emerging regulations and trends in your region and communicates these to the Benefits Hub**

**We’re looking for**:
**Excellent knowledge of benefits and pensions gained through working in a Benefits specialist role (or similar) in a Reward, HR or Benefits capacity**Strong Benefits knowledge in geographic regions - UK mandatory, EMEA and Asia/Pacific experience would be highly desirable**Demonstrable experience of leading or supporting on market reviews, benchmarking, gap analysis and implementation of benefits/pensions**Experience in Vendor management and working with Benefit Providers/brokers/ Vendors**Knowledge of EMEA social security and Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) arrangements and Liabilities (for EMEA roles) is use**Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management experience**Ability to prioritise effectively and work autonomously**A solution-driven mindset with a strong passion for problem solving**

**What we offer you**

Our employee benefits are designed for you, we care about people and we’ve ensured we have a wealth of benefits that focus on your well-being. We regularly review our benefits to ensure we are supporting our employees appropriately.- 30 days ‘working from anywhere in the world’ policy- Wellbeing support through Apps such as Unmind and an Employee Assistance Programme- 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after 5 years service (plus optional holiday purchase)- Pension scheme (various options available including employer contribution matching up to 7%)- Private Medical Insurance- 22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once relevant service requirements complete)- Train Ticket loan (interest-free)- Cycle to Work Scheme- Free shuttle bus to and from Hatfield Train Station to the Hatfield offices- Free shuttle bus to and from Welwyn Garden City Train Station to the Welwyn Garden City offices- Opportunity to participate in Sharesave and Buy as You Earn share schemes-
- Income Protection (can be up to 50% of salary for 3 years) and Life Assurance (3 x annual salary)