Senior Pensions Data Management Specialist

JR United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 44,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy is seeking an experienced Senior Pensions Data Management Specialist to manage complex pension data across Defined Benefit schemes. The successful candidate will lead project deliverables, demonstrating advanced Excel skills and a strong understanding of pensions, while maintaining key stakeholder relationships. This remote role offers competitive pay and benefits for UK-based candidates.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes.
• Strong technical pensions knowledge and calculation expertise.
• Comfortable taking Excel skills test.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of scheme events and data projects, ensuring accuracy.
• Conduct complex data manipulation using advanced Excel.
• Review and quality-check work of Pensions Data Technicians.

Skills

Advanced Excel skills

Data manipulation

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Education

Degree or A-levels in Maths

Tools

Excel

Job description

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Posted:

10.06.2025

Expiry Date:

25.07.2025

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Job Description:

Location: Remote

Salary: up to £44,000 plus bonus and benefits

Contract Type: Permanent

Hydrogen Group is supporting our pensions client in their search for experienced Senior Pensions Data Management professionals to join the Scheme Events team. In this role, you’ll play a pivotal part in extracting, analysing, cleansing, and processing pensions data across complex Defined Benefit (DB) schemes—ensuring high-quality delivery for key projects and scheme events.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of assigned scheme events and data projects, ensuring timeliness and accuracy
• Conduct complex data manipulation and bulk calculations using advanced Excel functions
• Build and maintain strong client and internal stakeholder relationships
• Review and quality-check the work of Pensions Data Technicians
• Identify, manage, and report data risks and breaches
• Provide technical support, audit trails, testing, and regular updates to Project Managers
• Act as a subject matter expert for internal and client-led change programmes
• Proven experience with Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes
• Strong technical pensions knowledge and calculation expertise
• Advanced Excel skills including:

-Formulas, including nested IFs and VLOOKUPs

-Pivot tables, data filters, sorting and grouping

-Data transformation, import/export of text files

-Building and enhancing templates/macros

-Experience working with bulk data and management systems

• High attention to detail and commitment to quality
• Confident working in a remote/home-based environment
• Comfortable taking Excel skills test (non-pass/fail – used to assess support needs)
• Client-facing or coaching experience
• Degree or A-levels in Maths, or equivalent work-based analytical experience

? Interested or know someone who might be? If you meet the above experience, please submit your CV or reach out to me directly: [emailprotected]

Please note: UK-based candidates only with valid Right to Work.