Pensions Team Leader

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Dunfermline, Rosyth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading service provider in pension management is looking for a Pensions Team Leader at their Rosyth site, offering a full-time position with hybrid working arrangements. The role involves overseeing the administration of pension schemes, ensuring compliance with legislation, and leading a team to deliver exceptional service. Candidates should have experience in people management and a strong understanding of pension regulations. Competitive benefits include a matched contribution pension scheme and excellent development opportunities.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading options

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Previous people management experience, including coaching and workload planning.
• Strong working knowledge of pension legislation and relevant tax rules.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the daily operations of the pensions administration team.
• Provide guidance, mentoring, and support to team members.
• Ensure compliance with scheme rules and pensions legislation.
• Identify and implement process improvements.
• Act as the first point of escalation for complex queries.

Skills

People management experience

Knowledge of pension legislation

Organisational skills

Education

PMI or equivalent pensions qualification

Job description

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Pensions Team Leader

Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD

Onsite or Hybrid:

Job Title: Pensions Team Leader

Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF69978

Shape the Future of Pension Services at Babcock

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Pensions Team Leader at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Pensions Team Leader, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead a dedicated team managing two in‑house defined benefit pension schemes. This is a role where your expertise will make a real difference ensuring compliance, improving processes, and delivering exceptional service to our members. You’ll have the opportunity to influence change, develop your leadership skills, and contribute to a business that supports national security and infrastructure.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Oversee the daily operations of the pensions administration team, ensuring workloads are balanced and service levels are met.
• Provide guidance, mentoring, and support to team members, including performance reviews and development plans.
• Ensure all administration activities comply with scheme rules, pensions legislation, and internal policies.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and member experience.
• Act as the first point of escalation for complex queries.

This role is full‑time, 36 hours per week Monday to Friday and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Pensions Team Leader

• Previous people management experience, including coaching and workload planning.
• Strong working knowledge of pension legislation and relevant tax rules.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.

Qualifications for the Pensions Team Leader

• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education. If you can demonstrate the required level of experience and a willingness to learn, we’d love to hear from you. It would be advantageous if you hold a PMI or equivalent pensions qualification, but this is not essential.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial well‑being.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.