Pensions and Benefits Lead

Job Description

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

The Pensions and Benefits Lead ensures the operations of Vodafone’s pension and benefits arrangements run efficiently and effectively for our members and employees, working closely with our providers to manage delivery.
They also support the Head of Pensions and Benefits in designing and implementing employee benefits, benchmarking benefit design where appropriate and working with brokers, insurers and our flexible benefits provider to implement any changes efficiently.

• Oversee the day‑to‑day running of pensions and benefits, ensuring suppliers, advisers and platforms deliver a reliable, high‑quality service that meets agreed standards and governance requirements.
• Support the Trustee Board’s and its committees as part of the Executive Management Team, ensuring statutory duties, governance processes, reporting and member communications are delivered accurately, on time and in line with regulatory expectations.
• Lead the design, review and implementation of benefits using external benchmarking to shape benefit design and working with brokers, insurers and flexible benefits providers to deliver changes efficiently.
• Lead pensions and benefits change projects with strong end‑to‑end planning, bringing the right people into discussions early, managing delivery disciplines and dependencies, and ensuring changes are implemented efficiently with clear, sustainable outcomes.

Who you are

• Highly organised and self‑motivated, comfortable managing multiple priorities and delivering work to a high standard in a complex environment.
• A clear and confident communicator, able to write high‑quality papers and communications for Trustee Boards, senior stakeholders and employees.
• Strong project management skills, with experience planning, coordinating and delivering change projects efficiently and with clear outcomes.
• Experience in pensions is beneficial, with the ability to work confidently with advisers, providers and governance bodies.
• Proven pensions experience
• APMI desirable but not essential.

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What's in it for you

• Yearly bonus: 10%
• Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
• Charity days: 5 days/year
• Maternity leave: 52 weeks: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
• Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
• Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
• Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.