Lead Consultant

Benefex Limited; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in the online reward and benefits sector is seeking a Lead Platform Delivery Consultant to join their dynamic team. In this role, you will be instrumental in driving the success of global customer implementations, ensuring they receive maximum value from the platform. Your expertise in employee benefits solutions and technical design will be pivotal as you collaborate with diverse stakeholders to deliver tailored solutions. With a commitment to exceptional employee experiences, this forward-thinking company offers a flexible work environment and a comprehensive benefits package, making it an exciting opportunity for growth and impact.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Birthday off

Two half-day wellbeing days

Healthcare cash plan

Employee Assistance Plan

Income Protection

Referral bonuses

Enhanced parental leave

Work from Anywhere policy

Monthly allowance for personal use

Qualifications

• Experience in implementing B2B HR SaaS solutions is highly desirable.
• Proven track record in top-level decision making affecting entire projects.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of global customers, ensuring their success with our platform.
• Gather and document customer requirements to produce detailed designs.

Skills

Implementing employee benefits solutions

Technical solution design

Global enterprise software implementation

System configuration

Consulting and advising

Detail-oriented planning

Job description

Who are Benifex?

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in.

Why should you apply?

• Impact: As part of Benifex's mission to become the leading provider of employee benefits solutions in the world, this role is critical toachieving that. You'll be working on global projects with our largest customers and playing a key part in our growth.
  
• Ownership: You will own our largest global implementations setting strategic customers up for success
  
• Knowledge: You will be the OneHub ProductSME, acting as a point of knowledge for clients and colleagues alike
• Top 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space

**Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position**

Great benefits:

£47,000-60,000

Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a month in the office and you must be based in the UK or Ireland.

Full access to our comprehensive benefits package, including discounts from hundreds of high street brands, salary sacrifice schemes across Finance, Health, Tech, and more

️ 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays

Your birthday off

️ Two half day wellbeing days

???? Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day-to-day healthcare

Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support

Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)

Referral bonuses

Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave

️ Work from Anywhere policy for 90 days

️ Buy and Sell scheme for holidays

£50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month!

Role Overview

As a Lead Platform Delivery Consultant, you will play a critical role in setting up our customers for success.You will own a portfolio of global customers (on average between 2 and 5 a year), responsible for both new customers and renewals, with a focus on owning our largest or most complex customers.

You will work closely with each customer to ensure we are meeting their needs, and they are getting the most out of our platform. This means taking them from requirement refinement and solution design to technical implementation and testing, to launch and in-life support.

You will support the growth of the team and department through the mentoring of our consultants and you will be expected to feed into process or product improvement projects to support the continuous improvement of the department.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of a customer portfolio, predominantly formed of significant andenterprise account customers, or those with higher complexity schemes.
• Gather and document customer requirements, producing detailed designs thataddress specific customer needs while adhering to best practices.
  
• Consult customers into solutions that help them to achieve their overall projectgoals, ensuring feasibility of requirements can be delivered within our technology.
  
• Configure OneHub to meet customer requirements.
  
• Guide Customers through Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) phase, ensuringseamless communication, addressing feedback, and facilitating a successfulandsatisfactory testing process.
• Collaborate effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders, spanning internalteams and external parties, to ensure streamlined communications and successfuloutcomes.
  
• Proactively mitigate risks within your customer projects, working closely with thePlatform Delivery Manager to solve issues.
  
• Ensures project collateral and tracking measures are accurate at all times acrossthe portfolio.
  
• Achieve high quality outcomes for your customers, measured against defects raised, timeliness and NPS.
• Undertakes business process analysis for both customer and internal departmentprocesses, seeking improvements and efficiencies.
• Lead global programme initiation.
  
• Oversees consulting on global standards – Reporting, HRIS, payroll, global benefits, use of PB, etc.
  
• Acts as programme lead consultant for large Global Customers responsible for thebest practice design of the overall global solution.

What are we looking for?

• High desirable experience: implementing employee benefits solutionsor B2B HR SaaS solutions
• Detail orientated, quality driven and a meticulous planner.
  
• You will have a proven history of top-level decision making, with your decisions affecting the whole project, rather than individual parts
• Experience in technical solution design: working with customers to understand their needs, propose and agree technical solutions
• Demonstrable expertise inglobal enterprise software implementation: designing and implementing software solutions across multiple countries for 100,000+users
• Ensuring we're compliant in brand-new territories as we build out our platform in global locations
• The ability towork with a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders and the ability to condense technical concepts into non-technical formats
• A history of system configuration, making hands on changes to the system to meet the customers needs.
• Experience in consulting, working with customers to advise on best practices, possible approaches and spotting opportunities to upsell.
• Coding knowledge is desirable, but not necessary

Even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.

Our interview process

Benifex understands the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible.

Initial informal call with the Talent team

Online tests in numeracy and logical reasoning

Interview with the hiring manager and a member of the team

Final interview with the Director

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.