Reward Associate

We rise to challenges together

Reward Associate
 

Location: Spalding

Business Area: HR - Reward
Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm

Why join us?

We’re ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it’s exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together.

About the role

We’re proud to offer you a career with real scope for development. To reward your hard work and ambition as a talented Reward Associate with plenty of support and opportunity. And empower you to drive your own success and create a career you can be proud of too.

In this busy and exciting role, you will manage all aspects of administration with regards to the Group Reward team, with a particular focus on the ‘MyReward’ benefit platform for both salaried and weekly paid colleagues.

This will include updating the system with starters and leavers and the impact on associated benefits; supporting with the annual benefit renewal process for salaried colleagues and assisting with communications to employees to drive awareness and understanding.

Role Accountabilities

• Accountable for the MyReward system and associated day to day management as well as weekly and monthly uploads; new starter windows; updating of benefit information on a periodic basis; and general system administration
• Lead for the management of the annual benefit window including the associated colleague communications and user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Ensuring flexible benefit details and costs are provided for salary sacrifice and payroll deduction purposes and ensuring benefits are accurately assigned in MyReward
• Managing the subsequent enrolment to the various benefits i.e. private medical insurance; health assessments; life assurance; health cash plan etc through liaising with the external providers and our insurance benefit broker
• Subject matter expert for the Death in Service (DIS) process, working with site contacts and the Trustee Directors to ensure life assurance payments are made to beneficiaries in a timely fashion
• Provide support and administration relating to the annual pay and bonus review processes and updating MyReward as required. Uploading of Loyalty Bonus information on an annual basis to those in the plan.  Preparation of data for mail merge purposes as required
• Take a role in the promotion and communications of new and existing benefits to help raise awareness of the benefit offer
• Contributing to Reward projects and initiatives both as a member of team but also to enable learning and development
• Acting as the main contact for the Group Reward shared inbox, dealing with queries in a timely manner and escalating as appropriate
• Provide management information and reporting for Reward KPIs on a quarterly basis as well as any ad hoc reporting required
• Raising and receipting purchase orders in support of the management of the different Reward, Corporate and Overseas budgets.  Annual recharges for the relevant benefit costs including Private Medical Insurance, Group Life Assurance, Group Income Protection and Personal Accident Insurance.  Monthly Recharges include Executive Health Screening.

About you

Skills & Experience:

• Ideally experience working with systems
• Excellent numerical skills and strong analytical, data analysis and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) and experience of engaging with a variety of stakeholders, both internal and external
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills

Knowledge:

• A level of understanding of benefits would be ideal
• To hold (or be working towards) a level 3 CIPD HR qualification is preferred
• A good working knowledge of Microsoft 365, including Excel and PowerPoint, plus a strong general systems orientation.

Attributes:

• The ability to build credibility and rapport, build effective working relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to cope with pressure e.g. short submission deadlines for information
• Enthusiasm and self-motivation, with the ability to work flexibly to support a range of projects with different priorities and timescales
• Ability to work on own initiative and unsupervised
• Positive outlook and approach with a desire to learn and develop

What you’ll receive

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You’ll enjoy:

• Life Assurance (1 x salary)
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)
• Private medical insurance (after 5 years’ service)
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Discount & cashback platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free health check
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Free car parking – Site dependant

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re the biggest name you’ve never heard of. You’ve probably eaten our food. You just didn’t realise it. Because as global leaders in the fresh prepared food industry, we create innovative products, including meals, soups, dips, salads, desserts, pizzas and breads for our customers in the UK, US and China. We’re ambitious. We're full of ideas and we're ready for more people to join us who share our passion for quality – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

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