Senior Pensions Data Management Specialist

JR United Kingdom; Norwich; Remote; GBP 37,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy is seeking a Senior Pensions Data Management professional to join their Scheme Events team. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality pensions data projects and managing client relationships. This remote role requires advanced Excel skills and a background in Defined Benefit pension schemes, offering a salary of up to £44,000 plus bonus and benefits.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes.
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Client-facing or coaching experience.

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.
• Identify, manage, and report data risks and breaches.

Skills

Advanced Excel skills

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Quality assurance

Education

Degree or A-levels in Maths

Job description

Location: Remote

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

Contract Type: Permanent

Job Description:

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 such as nested IFs and VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, data filters, sorting, grouping, data transformation, import/export of text files, building and enhancing templates/macros, and 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 an 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.