Benefits Specialist

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

7/23/2025

As a Benefits Specialist within the People Services team supporting UK, Ireland, and South Africa, you will deliver an excellent people experience by providing high quality, efficient services to support company benefit and wellbeing programmes, such as group health plans, life and disability insurance across the employee life cycle. You will handle escalated subject matter issues to provide a seamless service to employees and partners. You will work collaboratively with the Centre’s of Excellence Total Rewards Team to support ongoing service improvement projects.

You will operate remotely and report into the HR Shared Service Centre Lead - EMEA.

Here's What You'll Be Doing

• Implement, communicate, and administer employee benefits, serving as the main contact for employees regarding benefit eligibility, coverage, and other related matters.
• Co-ordinates benefits processing (enrolments, terminations, changes, beneficiaries), internally, and with external vendors.
• Work with Payroll to ensure accurate processing of benefits
• Manage processing of monthly benefit invoices
• Support annual compliance and audit processes.
• Help plan, testing and launch of annual open enrolment processes through the Total Rewards Hub.
• Processes all benefits documentation, including policies, summary plan descriptions, letters, forms, and guidance material following any required changes and ensure these reflect our brand and EVP.
• Support benefits projects and the implementation of new benefit and wellbeing programmes and systems whilst supporting onboarding of new businesses through acquisition and merger.
  
  

What Do You Bring To The Role?

Essential

• Previous experience working in an HR or Benefits admin team
• Knowledge of health and wellbeing benefit plans with a knowledge of statutory, legislative policies relating to benefits administration.
• Data driven, confident analysing and preparing reports of large data sets and using data to frame discussions.
• Methodical and organized to meet deadlines and prioritise a busy and varied workload.
• An ability to work with a wide range of individuals across all levels and geographies.
• Able to drive to identify 'better ways' of working to improve efficiency.
• Experience with HRIS systems preferably Workday
• Technical knowledge of excel including the development of spreadsheets with formulas, functions, pivot tables and lookups, preferred.
  
  

Desirable

• Educated to associate degree level with a qualification in Human Resources, or similar field of study or a willingness to study towards a relevant qualification.
• Experience of Ticket Management systems such as ServiceNow
• Experience of working with benefits in a matrix / shared services model
• Experience working in a within a large complex organisation.
  
  

About Inizio

Uniting the expertise and capabilities of Ashfield and Huntsworth Health, Inizio has just been launched to become THE strategic partner for health and life sciences companies. Unparalleled in scale and expertise, we connect a full suite of Advisory, Medical, Marketing/Communications, Patient and Stakeholder Engagement, and Biotech services to reimagine clients' challenges into opportunities.

We are a team of 12,000 experts working together in 35 countries to create something extraordinary. We exist to solve health challenges and develop transformational ideas that positively impact human lives. Working at Inizio offers an opportunity to work for a game-changing company built with one goal. That is to redefine health and life sciences by empowering our people to inspire new possibilities that promote health and build brighter futures.

Our Pledge

At Inizio, we value inclusivity, recognise the power of diversity and inspire the next generation of change-makers. We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in creating a work environment that values diversity, equity and inclusion. We aim to recruit from a diverse slate of candidates and foster an environment that provides the right conditions for long-term success. We welcome all applications regardless of race, colour, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation and physical or mental disability.

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.