Pensions Technical Specialist Leatherhead 2023

Unilever UK Pensions (UUKP) provides support to both the Company and the trustee boards of each of its three UK and Ireland pension funds:

• Unilever UK Pension Fund
• Uniac
• Irish DB Compartment of Unilever Pension Plan

In addition, UUKP oversees a series of pensioner liaison activities including 8 regional pensioner groups, a programme of pensioner lunches and a pensioner visitors’ scheme under the banner of the Unilever Pensioners Association.

The UK’s main pension fund (UUKPF) currently has approximately 6,000 active members (employees), 30,000 deferred members (ex-employees who have yet to draw their pension) and 40,000 pensioners. Whilst the day to day administration function for all three member groups of the UUKPF has been outsourced to Capita, responsibility for Technical Support, Member Communications and Financial Education, Finance and Administration for senior Unilever managers / directors remains within UUKP, as does responsibility for pensioner liaison and pensioner welfare through the Unilever Pensioners Association (UPA).

Responsibilities

Communications

Supporting the Pensions Communication Manager with the strategic and operational management of all areas of communication to the circa 75,000 members of the UUKPF and other pension arrangements overseen by UUKP. Including:

• The development, implementation and regular review of the pension communication strategy.
• Assisting with the delivery of the rolling communications plan.
• Developing relationships with the third-party communication providers.
• Assisting with developing and implementing the digital communication channels for the Fund, working with appropriate third-party providers. This includes websites and appropriate financial tools to assist members.
• Assisting with periodic review of member administration letters.
• Ensuring records of all mass communication and samples of member standard communications are maintained.

Financial education programme

• Assisting with the delivery and development of the financial education programme for employees across all Unilever UK sites.

Member counselling and site liaison

Accountable for relationship between UUKP and local sites as follows and/or to provide the following:

• Critical link to local HR and Communication leads either to cascade information and to be first point of contact for local pension or financial education issues.
• Facilitates support to local sites, example in relation to restructuring, outsourcing and M&A activity.
• Delivery of member counselling activities either on a group or individual basis.

UPA / UPC/ Pensioner Liaison

Assisting with delivery of Unilever funded pensioner activities:

• Main point of contact for venues for pensioner lunches.
• Hosting pensioner lunches.
• Purchase birthday vouchers for UPA members (per annum spend) and managing their distribution by a 3rd party supplier.
• Assist with “management” of regional groups and act as support for each Committee.
• Maintain regular contact with each of the 11 regional group committees. Attendance at each of the regional groups’ AGMs and one of their committee meetings each year.
• Managing risk of inappropriate comments appearing in any regional group publication by checking copy content prior to release.
• Ensuring timely and cost-effective despatch of quarterly newsletters, fliers, excursion details and AGM invitations by the AST to the regional group members.
• Ownership of the scheme administration for approximately 120 volunteer visitors.
• Ensure smooth running of the scheme and to answer any queries the visitors may have.

All about you

• A desire to undertake a communication focussed role.
• Pensions and/or HR/ Reward communications background.
• Looking to develop into an all-round communications practitioner.
• Willingness to work with pensioner groups.
• An understanding of delivering a financial education programme.
• Most likely worked in an in-house pension admin and/or communication support role and now looking to progress.
• In-house experience preferred but not essential.

About Unilever

Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’

Location

In September 2020, Unilever announced the intention to build a new sustainable campus site in Kingston, London to house the employees who currently work in 100 Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars, Lever House in Kingston, Unilever House in Leatherhead and Graze in Richmond. We are creating our own Unilever sustainable, agile work environment, purposefully bringing us together in our own Unilever ecosystem. The campus is due to be completed in early 2025 and will consist of two interconnected buildings, as well as landscaped surrounding areas.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, free gym, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.

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