EME Benefits Manager

Pension and Benefits Manager at Barclays

Join the Pension and Benefits team at Barclays, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring our employee benefits are well managed globally. Your key responsibilities will include managing benefit policies, overseeing third-party delivery, ensuring compliance with governance measures, and supervising supplier performance. Additionally, you will support pension and benefit plans governance in Europe and the Middle East and contribute to project activities such as scheme design reviews.

Role Responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Developing, implementing, and delivering retirement plans and benefits programs aligned to organizational strategy, including resolving escalated issues from colleagues and leaders.
• Ensuring retirement plans and benefits programs comply with internal governance and external regulations, staying updated with legislative changes.
• Educating employees and managers on available retirement and benefit options, like retirement and health insurance solutions.
• Conducting market research and developing appropriate retirement and benefits strategies and compliance measures.
• Managing and engaging external vendors to administer and deliver retirement and benefits services and provide necessary counsel.
• Overseeing cost elements relevant to retirement and benefits plans, ensuring costs align with budgets and any funding requirements are met.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and ensure operational effectiveness by collaborating closely with other business divisions.
• Lead a team in performing complex tasks, deliver results impacting the business, set objectives, and coach employees towards achieving those objectives.
• If in a leadership role, demonstrate leadership behaviors: L - Listen, E - Energize, A - Align, D - Develop others.
• As an individual contributor, lead collaborative assignments, guide team members, and identify new directions for tasks and projects.
• Consult on complex issues, advising People Leaders to resolve escalated issues and develop new policies in support of control and governance.
• Mitigate risk and strengthen controls in relation to tasks performed.
• Engage in complex data analysis from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex or sensitive information effectively, and influence stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.

Colleague Values and Mindset

All colleagues are expected to embody the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship - our guiding principles for doing what's right. Additionally, they should demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - Empower, Challenge, and Drive - our operational approach to behavior.