About the Role
This role is responsible for project planning and managing scheme transitions from contract negotiations through to the end of data cleanse. It involves collating and validating accurate data, agreeing processes and timescales with trustees and internal stakeholders, and ensuring client commitments are met. The role requires excellent stakeholder management and involves working on multiple transactions simultaneously, providing direction and support for the development of the Transition Consultant and Transition Support roles.
Responsibilities
- Project manage all transactions from exclusive appointment, or earlier if required, ensuring timely completion of all tasks in line with client and business expectations and hold client to account to deliver data and other items on time.
- Be responsible for obtaining, validating and checking data received during the data cleanse period to ensure smooth handover to the Implementation team.
- Communicate progress, issues and next steps to key stakeholders involved in the transaction, such as trustees and administrators.
- Support the Senior Business Development Manager with management of clients, including discussing how we can support them throughout their de-risking journey, and attendance at Trustee board meetings (where appropriate).
- Work with the DB Operations team to handle trustee queries during transition process, until schemes handed over to BAU, supporting the Implementation Managers with operational tasks such as payroll funding, member calculations and reinsurance reporting.
Requirements
- Experienced within the DB Pensions or the DB De-risking Market, with knowledge of buy-ins and buy outs or general de-risking.
- Experience of relationship management and/or project management.
- Able to 'Project Manage' transactions through to conclusion by effectively partnering with Scheme Trustees and EBCs.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel; with the ability to analyse and check data accordingly and efficiently whilst explaining issues to clients in a clear and appropriate manner.
- A strong negotiator, with good influencing skills, and the ability to handle conflicting priorities with internal and external stakeholders.
Skills
- Project management
- Relationship management
- Data validation
- Stakeholder management
- Microsoft Excel
- Negotiation
- Influencing
Location
- London
- Reigate
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- Project management qualifications desirable, e.g. Prince 2, Agile, APM
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance
- 25 days annual leave plus an additional day on us for your birthday
- Private medical cover
- Income protection
- Generous and highly achievable bonus scheme
- Opportunities to progress your career in-role and within the company
- Free access to the Headspace app
- 24/7 employee assistance helpline
- Trained physical and mental health first aiders
- Variety of employee funded benefits available via our online benefits portal
- Several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones
About the Company
- We help people achieve a better later life. That’s our purpose and it’s the reason we exist. We are a fast-growing company helping customers enjoy the retirement they deserve. We do this through a variety of market leading, award-winning products and services, delivered by a diverse team of over 1,400 purpose-led colleagues who genuinely put the customer at the heart of everything we do. This is a brilliant time to join our business. We are on an exciting growth journey to become the UK’s most loved retirement expert.
Equal Opportunity
- Valuing diversity of thought and fostering a sense of belonging is critical to our business success, driving innovation and balanced decision making. Our work on DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging) aims to deliver a brilliant employee experience underpinned by a sense of belonging, where our people feel proud to work at Just. We remain committed to our publicly disclosed HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter and Race at Work Charter targets and support a wide range of employee network and events, championing issues including intergenerational working, social mobility and neurodiversity.
