Benefits and Reward Specialist

  • Permanent contract
  • Hybrid
  • Job number: 245533
  • £52,620 - £66,907
  • E.ON UK Ltd

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Benefits and Reward Specialist

Job description

Here's what you'll be doing

Salary - £52,620 - £66,907 plus excellent employee benefits

Location- Trinity House (Nottingham - Hybrid working)

Permanent Role

At E.ON UK, we're driving the energy transition to make energy affordable and sustainable for all. As we evolve, so does how we reward, recognise, and support our people.

We seek an experienced Reward & Benefits Specialist to join our high-performing Reward team. This role suits a detail-oriented, tenacious individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to make a real impact by shaping our reward experience during business transformation.

Reporting to the Reward & Performance Lead Consultant and collaborating with Colleague Services, you will own E.ON UK's benefits offering—managing, enhancing, and delivering our employee benefits portfolio. You'll ensure it supports our Employee Value Proposition (EVP), attracts and retains talent, and delivers an engaging colleague experience, while contributing to the broader reward agenda.

You should have proven experience influencing stakeholders, managing projects, and delivering reward initiatives—especially in benefits management, implementation, and engagement. Candidates with backgrounds in employee benefits, reward advisory, communications, marketing, or contract management are welcome.

Main responsibilities of the role

As a Reward & Benefits Specialist, you'll:

  • Act as a benefits subject matter expert, using your knowledge of benefits and reward processes, governance, legislation and market practice to identify opportunities and bring innovative ideas that enhance E.ON’s reward offering and Employee Value Proposition.
  • Own the delivery of E.ON UK's employee benefits portfolio, managing supplier relationships, contracts and performance, while partnering with Payroll, Internal Communications, Pensions, Procurement, People Partners and suppliers to deliver an excellent colleague experience.
  • Act as escalation point for complex queries, and work with stakeholders and providers, to ensure our benefits remain competitive, cost-effective, compliant and aligned with colleague needs and business priorities.
  • Lead the end-to-end delivery of the annual benefits enrolment cycle, including supplier negotiations, contract renewals, system readiness, communications and stakeholder coordination, ensuring a seamless and engaging experience for colleagues.
  • Drive year-round benefits engagement through creative, inclusive communications and campaigns that enhance our Employee Value Proposition. Use colleague insight and feedback to continually improve the reward experience, delivering impactful content and events across a range of channels to increase awareness, understanding and participation.
  • Identify opportunities to digitalise and simplify processes, improve ways of working and enhance the colleague reward experience.
  • Manage the complexity of delivering reward and benefits across a diverse colleague population, including field-based, contact centre and office teams. Use a range of HR systems, digital platforms and communication channels to ensure reward information is accessible, engaging and relevant for all colleagues.
  • Ensure benefits governance, policies and processes remain robust, compliant and aligned with regulatory requirements and business risk appetite.
  • Analyse and interpret benefits and reward data, generating actionable insights that inform recommendations, enhance colleague engagement and evolve our wider reward offering.
  • Manage benefit budgets, monitoring monthly spend, forecasting costs and supporting effective financial control. Act as the escalation point for supplier invoicing queries.
  • Contribute to the wider reward landscape, supporting activities such as reward MI and insight, benchmarking, job evaluation and annual reward activities, as req

What we need from you

At E.ON UK, we're driving the energy transition to make energy affordable and sustainable for all. As we evolve, so does how we reward, recognise, and support our people.

We seek an experienced Reward & Benefits Specialist to join our high-performing Reward team. This role suits a detail-oriented, tenacious individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to make a real impact by shaping our reward experience during business transformation.

Reporting to the Reward & Performance Lead Consultant and collaborating with Colleague Services, you will own E.ON UK's benefits offering—managing, enhancing, and delivering our employee benefits portfolio. You'll ensure it supports our Employee Value Proposition (EVP), attracts and retains talent, and delivers an engaging colleague experience, while contributing to the broader reward agenda.

You should have proven experience influencing stakeholders, managing projects, and delivering reward initiatives—especially in benefits management, implementation, and engagement. Candidates with backgrounds in employee benefits, reward advisory, communications, marketing, or contract management are welcome.

At E.ON, we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace where everyone can thrive. However you identify, and whatever your background, we welcome your application. We value the unique perspectives that each individual brings - because a sustainable future needs all of us. We aim to make our recruitment process accessible to all. Visit our Application Support page if you need adjustments or support.

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Application process

1
Online Application
2
Interview
3
Contract and Onboarding

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