Employee Benefits Manager 12 Month FTC

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

Want to help shape benefits that make a real difference to people at Sky? As Employee Benefits Manager, you’ll join the Reward Centre of Excellence and play a central role in developing and delivering benefits that are competitive, sustainable, easy to use and support business performance. This is a broad, high-impact maternity cover role. You’ll combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, lead brilliant benefits communications, improve the digital employee experience and support Sky through significant business change. As a valued employee of Sky, you’ll benefit from discounts on Sky products, an excellent pension scheme and private healthcare.

What you’ll do

• Strategy & Insight: Develop and execute the UK & Ireland benefits and wellbeing strategy alongside the Head of Reward. Use data, market trends, and employee feedback to build commercial business cases and deliver a clear outcomes-based roadmap.
• Communications & Engagement: Own the multi-channel benefits engagement plan. Translate technical, pension, share plan, and wellbeing information into clear messaging, leading campaigns that drive take-up across frontline and desk-based teams.
• Platform & User Experience: Act as the product owner for the benefits platform, using analytics and feedback to improve user journeys. Manage annual enrolment cycles, vendor integrations, and explore digital tools/AI to enhance efficiency.
• Change & Transformation: Lead benefits due diligence, transition planning, and communications for organisational change, restructures, and M&A activities, partnering effectively with group counterparts (Comcast/NBCU).
• Delivery & Governance: Oversee day-to-day operations across healthcare, pensions, risk benefits, share plans, and salary sacrifice. Manage vendor performance, ensure regulatory/tax compliance, and handle complex queries alongside Legal, Tax, Finance, and Payroll.

What you’ll bring

Essential criteria:

• Qualifications & Expertise: Relevant professional qualification (or equivalent deep practical experience) across reward, benefits, pensions, HR, or project management.
• Core Benefits Knowledge: Broad understanding of employee benefits (health/wellbeing, pensions, salary sacrifice) alongside UK benefits compliance, payroll, employment tax, and data protection.
• Strategic & Operational Delivery: Substantial track record in a broad employee benefits role within a large or complex organisation , translating benefits strategy into measurable delivery plans.
• Communications & Stakeholder Management: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex topics into engaging employee communications across varied channels.
• Project & Provider Governance: Strong project, change management, and commercial capability, with experience managing competing priorities, senior stakeholders, and third-party advisers or providers.
• Analytical & Digital Capability: 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).

Desirable skills and experience:

• Advanced Qualifications: Additional formal qualifications in reward, pensions, project management, or communications.
• International & Corporate Change: Experience with international benefits, cross-group structures, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, or corporate separations.
• Platforms & User Experience: Hands-on experience with benefits technology, digital platform administration (annual cycles, testing), UX/content improvement, or product ownership.
• Insights & Measurement: Knowledge of employee listening, benefits benchmarking, campaign measurement, and platform analytics to demonstrate overall benefit value and engagement.

What Success Looks Like

• Strategic Impact: Delivery of an evidence-based benefits roadmap aligned with business goals.
• High Engagement: Clear, targeted communications that measurably increase benefit awareness and take-up.
• Seamless Operations: Flawless execution of annual enrolment, renewals, and change initiatives with well-managed risks.
• Optimised Experience: A modern, reliable benefits platform that simplifies navigation for all colleagues.

Benefits and perks

There’s one thing people can’t stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here’s a taster:

• Free Sky TV, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
• Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
• Private healthcare with mental health support
• Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
• Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect
• Sharesave and Tech schemes
• A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you’ll work

We’ve adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. The hybrid working expectations for this role are 3 days in the office per week.

Your office base

Osterley

Our Sky Group HQ. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and workspaces, there’s plenty of space to see your big ideas come to life. Here you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants and cafés. You can re-energise at our gym, catch the latest films at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Our Osterley Campus is just a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station, or you can get one of our free shuttle buses from Osterley, Gunnersbury and Ealing Broadway stations. Plus, there’s free on-site parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

Who we are

We’re Sky, a leading media and entertainment company who connect millions with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means you’ll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day. All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues and society.

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We’re a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.

To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position.