Data Team Manager

Just Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Life assurance

25 days annual leave

Birthday day off

Private medical cover

Income protection

Bonus scheme

Headspace access

Employee benefits portal

Job summary

Just Group in London or Reigate (Hybrid 50%) is seeking a Data Team Lead to join our Implementation Service activities. The role focuses on high-calibre support for member data, data checks, and guidance on complex schemes, acting as the primary contact for TPAs and the Operational team.

The role requires coordinating daily needs of the Data Team, guiding new members, and ensuring timely data delivery for schemes in transition, with close collaboration across onboarding and DB teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Experience in data or implementation functions.
• Good knowledge of DB Pensions and the Life and Pensions industry.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Data team members, ensuring tasks are completed within agreed timeframes and to the highest quality.
• Provide training and guidance to team members, ensuring competence is developed.
• Plan and allocate work to build and maintain a data competency framework.
• Complete data tasks for schemes in transition, including payroll funding and member calculations.
• Collaborate with onboarding, TPAs, and Operational teams to onboard schemes smoothly.
• Drive team motivation, progression opportunities and development support.
• Oversee monthly funding for schemes in implementation and perform data analysis for MI.

Skills

Team management

Data analysis

Pensions knowledge

Stakeholder liaison

Job description

Location: London or Reigate (Hybrid 50%)

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35

Purpose

The Data Team lead is responsible for a specialist team within our Implementation Service activities. The team provide high calibre and proactive assistance to support the preparation and gathering of member data, supporting with data checks and providing guidance for more complex schemes working closely with transition, exclusivity and technical teams. Acting as the initial point of contact for all implementation queries from Third Party Administrator (TPA) and the Operational team

Providing checking and authorisation support for the broader data services to support the member and operational services area including, but not limited to, monthly funding and BAU data analysis.

About Just

We help people achieve a better later life. That’s our purpose and it’s the reason we exist. We are a fast-growing company helping customers enjoy the retirement they deserve. We do this through a variety of market leading, award-winning products and services, delivered by a diverse team of over 1,250 purpose-led colleagues who genuinely put the customer at the heart of everything we do.

This is a brilliant time to join our business. We are on an exciting growth journey to become the UK’s most loved retirement expert.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the Data team members, ensuring all tasks are completed within agreed timeframes and to the highest quality possible.
• Working alongside the Head of Buy-out & GMP Services, ensure the team have the relevant skills and knowledge to perform their activities through provision of relevant training
• Provide ongoing guidance to new Data team members measuring and signing off their competence levels accordingly as they progress.
• Through planning and allocation of work across the team ensure the:
• build and maintenance a competency framework for the Data functions
• completion of all data tasks for schemes in transition such as payroll funding, member calculations, working with others in DB as required
• Close collaboration with onboarding team to agree process, data sets and ultimately handover for each scheme to onboard.
• Drive team motivation and engagement providing clear progression opportunities and supporting the team with their development.

This role is pivotal to ensuring the DB team complete all scheme transitions within the agreed timeframes and will be actively working on all transacted business through to the early days of BAU administration.

The role will work very closely with all areas of the DB team throughout the implementation process. Day to day tasks will include, but not limited to, the following:

• Managing daily needs of the Data Team
• All aspects of data for new scheme implementations, working closely with others in the Onboarding team, our TPAs and the Operational teams
• Monthly funding for schemes in implementation
• Defined Benefit data analysis, raising and documenting issues and concerns as required
• MI collation and production on a weekly and monthly basis

What we're looking for

• Good knowledge of DB Pensions and more generally the Life and Pensions industry, with a good level of understanding of Corporate DB Pensions and how they differ from DC and individual annuitiesKnowledge of DB de-risking market, including an understanding of the DB Pension Scheme wind up
• Experience of working in data or implementation functions.

Desirable for the role

• Experience of working with pension scheme trustees
• Experience of working with non-standard processes and systems

Our behaviours

At Just you’ll have the opportunity to develop your career, whilst making a difference to the lives of those around you. You’ll be part of a company with a strong and distinctive culture - we’re ambitious, curious and collaborative – and every decision we make centres around being Just and delivering the best outcomes for our customers.

What’s in it for you

• A competitive salary, pension scheme and life assurance
• 25 days annual leave plus an additional day on us for your birthday
• Private medical cover and income protection, just in case
• A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme
• Opportunities to progress your career in-role and within the company
• Free access to the Headspace app, 24/7 employee assistance helpline and trained physical and mental health first aiders
• A variety of employee funded benefits available via our online benefits portal
• Plus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones

Valuing diversity of thought and fostering a sense of belonging is critical to our business success, driving innovation and balanced decision making. Our work on DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging) aims to deliver a brilliant employee experience underpinned by a sense of belonging, where our people feel proud to work at Just.

We remain committed to our publicly disclosed HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter and Race at Work Charter targets and support a wide range of employee network and events, championing issues including intergenerational working, social mobility and neurodiversity.