Reward and Benefits Coordinator

Job Introduction

** At Saga we’re radically flexible which means our colleagues have total autonomy over where they work – home, hybrid or hub. This role has a hybrid element which means our team come together once a week in the office when we need to collaborate***

Our people are everything to us. The way they deliver exceptional experiences every day for our customers, for their colleagues. The way they own what they do. Their 'Why's it like that?' curiosity. How they always think of others and work together to get things done. For us, for you, make do will never do. Good enough? Not even close. Come and do the best work of your life alongside lovely colleagues. Come to Saga. 

And right now, you will support on a variety of day-to-day activities and our annual reward cycle. This role covers both the compensation side and benefits side of our Reward team. The role delivers key business support, being a first line of communication for all reward and benefits queries, engaging with both colleagues and external providers to deliver the best experience possible for our colleagues.  

Role Responsibility

• Day to day management of all reward and benefits queries - providing a high level of service for our colleagues, helping to create an exceptional colleague experience from the Reward team.
• Support on improving colleague experience on our benefit platform, understanding the platform and content, and leading in the system administration including maintaining colleague security permissions.
• Develop effective relationships both internally in the People Team and across the wider business and externally with our reward and benefit suppliers.
• Data auditing – ensuring our reward and benefit data is accurately recorded on our People Systems and liaising with relevant stakeholders to correct errors.
• Data administration – managing our weekly data administration for our benefits platform and external data uploads for benefit suppliers.
• Helping to drive development in our benefits platform, creating monthly MI dashboards to provide key insights into colleague activity.
• Support Reward Analyst on salary benchmarking, including reviewing job descriptions, using our benchmarking process to benchmark salaries, supporting on data and business partnering.
• Support the Team with annual and adhoc projects.
• Support the team to increase colleague experience with Reward and Benefits from the everyday to developing our processes and communications to improve colleague experience.
• Support in gathering external reward and benefit discovery insights.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience of working in a reward and benefits team.
• Experience in working within a support or administrative function
• Proficient in Microsoft packages in particular Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Handling sensitive data
• Excellent Communications skills
• Customer centric
• Stakeholder Management skills
• Attention to detail
• Flexible / Resilient to challenge and to fast paced environment

Our Saga Values:

• Precision Pace - Always owning and making things happen. 
• Empathy – Always aware of others. 
• Curiosity – Always asking why.
• Collaboration – Always one team, the Saga team!

Package Description

The standard benefits when you join Saga include: 

• Remote working available where possible

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays with the choice to buy a further 5 days annual leave per year 

• Free private medical insurance after 1 years' service 

• Workplace Pension 

• AXA Be Supported 

• A range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies

About the Company

Having spent our first 30 years focused on travel, Saga launched Saga Magazine and developed home and motor insurance and financial services in the 1980s. Private medical and pet insurance followed in the 1990s, along with the launch of our own cruise ship operation. The strength of the Saga brand provides the Group with the ability to develop in-house or partner with suppliers to offer our customers and members highly differentiated, competitively priced products which meet their evolving needs.

Saga exists to help our customers and members lead the life they want to lead. To succeed in this, we know that the most important thing to do is to listen to our customers and members. At the heart of our business model is our drive to know more about our customers’ wants and needs so we are best placed to serve them.

Applying this approach over the past 70 years has enabled us to become the UK's specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. The Saga brand has become one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic and is recognised for its high quality products and exceptional standards of service. These include cruises and holidays, insurance, personal finance and the Saga Magazine.

When you join Saga you will see that we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement.

We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better. Creating a culture in which everyone feels welcome and offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement is incredibly important to us. Fair consideration is given to applications from all applicants, including those with disabilities and those over who are over 50 as we are champions of age inclusivity.

We are an official Disability Confident Committed employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required.

We are a member of the 30% Club and partner with Women Ahead which offers us a fantastic opportunity to take part in a leading, global, cross-company, leadership mentoring scheme to champion female talent.

We are a signatory of the Armed Services Covenant and have received a Silver Award from the Employer Recognition Scheme. 

To all recruitment agencies: Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Any engagement with employees or provision of CVs to employees within Saga where you have not engaged with the Talent Acquisition Team will be considered speculative and Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.

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