Pensions Administration

GXO; Northampton; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in Northampton is seeking a Pensions Administrator to manage pension administration, ensuring compliance and efficiency. This full-time role offers a salary of up to £26,000 and includes benefits like annual leave, dental insurance, and various employee discounts. Ideal candidates will have prior administration experience, strong attention to detail, and excellent communication skills. Flexible working options are also available.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Flexible dental insurance

Company-sponsored pension scheme

24/7 online GP service

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

Discount platform access

Cycle-to-work scheme

Qualifications

• Previous administration experience, ideally in payroll or pensions.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong PC skills, particularly in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily pension administration, processing joins and contributions.
• Monitor regulatory changes in pension provision and assist with projects.
• Act as the key contact for pension queries from colleagues and providers.

Skills

Administration experience

Attention to detail

Strong PC skills

Numeracy and IT literacy

Excellent communication

Job description

Ready for a New Challenge in Your Career?

Looking to take the next step in your logistics or HR journey? Want to grow your career in a role that offers variety, impact, and flexibility?

Join us at GXO as a Pensions Administrator in Northampton, where you’ll play a key role in delivering top‑tier pension services across the UK and Ireland. In this dynamic in‑house position, you’ll be at the heart of our payroll processing cycles, handling transactional tasks and supporting our wider pensions team with essential admin duties.

This is a permanent, full‑time role working Monday to Friday, and we’re happy to discuss flexible working options to help you find the right balance.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £26,000 dependent on experience. In addition, we offer 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes flexible dental insurance plans, a company‑sponsored pension scheme, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle‑to‑work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Efficiently manage daily pension administration by processing joiners, contribution changes, opt‑ins/outs, resolving provider data queries, uploading files to portals, and issuing auto‑enrolment communications
• Keep up‑to‑date with pension legislation and monitor regulatory changes and market developments in pension provision. Training will be given
• Support with projects to improve the effectiveness of the department’s service to the business
• Act as a key contact for colleague’s pension queries, HR teams and external advisers and providers ensuring queries are resolved comprehensively and accurately and within agreed timelines

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Previous Administration experience – ideally within a payroll/pension background
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong PC skills with good knowledge of creating and maintaining spreadsheets – you will need to use daily.
• A good level of numeracy and IT literacy including strong excel skills
• Enthusiastic with a “can‑do” attitude
• Excellent communicator – both written and verbal

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting‑edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO’s candidate privacy statement here.