Reward Communications Specialist

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At National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving. But it's so much more than that. National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen. As we generate momentum in the energy transition for all, we don't plan on leaving any of our customers in the dark. So, join us as a Reward Communications Specialist, and find your superpower.

National Grid is hiring a Reward Communications Specialist to join the global benefits and engagement team.

The Reward Communications Specialist strategically designs and delivers initiatives aimed at significantly enhancing colleague engagement and overall experience with our global benefits programs. This role ensures that communication and engagement efforts align seamlessly with broader business objectives, fostering increased awareness, appreciation, and utilization of benefits across our diverse global workforce.

If you have previous experience of benefits communication and an understanding of reward we would love to hear from you!

This role is based from our London office at the Strand and you can enjoy our hybrid working from office and home.

Strategic Leadership and Experience Design

• Develop and lead innovative, comprehensive global engagement strategies for employee benefits that drive improved participation, understanding, and satisfaction
• Act as part of a project team to ensure alignment with total reward colleague engagement and experience principles.
• Act as a key leader in global benefits colleague engagement projects, particularly annual enrollment processes, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic direction and industry-leading practices.
• Serve as an internal consultant, proactively identifying trends and providing expertise on emerging innovations in benefits engagement and experience.
  Operational Management
• Oversee and execute annual engagement and comms plans, continually assessing their effectiveness through rigorous data analytics and feedback loops.
• Regularly audit and enhance digital communication platforms, ensuring content is accurate, compelling, relevant, and user-friendly.
• Utilize analytical insights to identify gaps and opportunities, driving continual improvements in employee benefits communication and engagement.
  Stakeholder and Vendor Partnership
• Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders, including Global People and brand teams and central internal comms team, ensuring culturally relevant and impactful messaging.
• Align external vendor strategies with internal engagement goals, optimizing colleague experience and external communications.

Content Development and Delivery

• Create engaging, clear, and informative content tailored for global audiences across various media, including digital, print, webinars, video, and live presentations.
• Ensure communications resonate across diverse colleague groups, enhancing benefits literacy at critical career and life moments.

Budget and Resource Management

• Effectively manage and monitor the global benefits engagement and experience budget.
• Ensure optimal resource utilization and compliance with budget constraints for engagement initiatives.

Compliance and Market Trends

• Maintain comprehensive knowledge of global benefits compliance requirements, including relevant legislation and market practices in the UK, US, and internationally.
• Provide proactive advice on market disruptions and legislative changes impacting global benefit strategies.

• Extensive experience in benefits engagement, communication, and experience design on a global scale.
• Expertise in translating complex benefits information into clear and engaging communications.
• Proficiency in using HRIS, benefits platforms, and data analytics tools.
• Proven success in managing global projects and stakeholder relationships.
• Strong knowledge of global benefits regulations, market trends, and best practices (including US ERISA, IRS regulations, HIPAA; UK Salary Sacrifice and benefits compliance).
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal, and project management skills.

A competitive salary between £48,000 - £60,000 - dependent on capability.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

National Grid is pioneering ways to decarbonise the energy system; from building interconnectors to allow the UK to share clean energy with our neighbours in Europe, to investing in renewable energy generation in the United States.

As one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world, National Grid is at the centre of a clean, fair and affordable energy future, where tackling climate change and reaching net zero is a key priority. National Grid is pioneering ways to decarbonise the energy system; from building interconnectors to allow the UK to share clean energy with our neighbours in Europe, to investing in renewable energy generation in the United States.

National Grid is pioneering ways to decarbonise the energy system; from building interconnectors to allow the UK to share clean energy with our neighbours in Europe, to investing in renewable energy generation in the United States.

As one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world, National Grid is at the centre of a clean, fair and affordable energy future, where tackling climate change and reaching net zero is a key priority. National Grid is pioneering ways to decarbonise the energy system; from building interconnectors to allow the UK to share clean energy with our neighbours in Europe, to investing in renewable energy generation in the United States.