Benefits Strategy & Platform Lead

Sky; Hounslow; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free Sky TV

Pension with up to 9% employer

Private healthcare

Aviva Digital GP

Productivity discounts

Sharesave and Tech schemes

Sky VIP rewards

Job summary

Sky is seeking an Employee Benefits Manager (maternity cover) to shape UK & Ireland benefits strategy and delivery. You will lead communications, own the benefits platform, and guide change initiatives across the organisation, partnering with Legal, Tax, Finance, and Payroll.

You’ll combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, driving engagement and a modern, user-friendly benefits experience for Sky colleagues.

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification (or equivalent deep practical experience) across reward, benefits, pensions, HR, or project management.
• Broad understanding of employee benefits (health/wellbeing, pensions, salary sacrifice) alongside UK benefits compliance, payroll, employment tax, and data protection.
• Substantial track record in a broad employee benefits role within a large or complex organisation, translating benefits strategy into measurable delivery plans.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex topics into engaging employee communications across varied channels.
• Strong project, change management, and commercial capability, with experience managing competing priorities, senior stakeholders, and third-party advisers or providers.
• Strong analytical skills using financial, employee, and market data, alongside proficiency in Microsoft 365 (Excel, PowerPoint) and the responsible use of AI tools (e.g., Copilot).

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the UK & Ireland benefits and wellbeing strategy with the Head of Reward.
• Own multi-channel benefits engagement campaigns to drive take-up.
• Act as product owner for the benefits platform and manage annual enrolment cycles.
• Lead due diligence, transition planning, and comms for organisational change and M&A activities.
• Oversee day-to-day healthcare, pensions, and salary sacrifice operations; manage vendor performance and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Analytics

Microsoft 365

Tools

AI tools (Copilot)

Pensions & benefits platforms

Job description

Sky is seeking an Employee Benefits Manager (maternity cover) to shape UK & Ireland benefits strategy and delivery. You will lead communications, own the benefits platform, and guide change initiatives across the organisation, partnering with Legal, Tax, Finance, and Payroll.

You’ll combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, driving engagement and a modern, user-friendly benefits experience for Sky colleagues.