Pension Opportunities

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving.  And helps make every day a little better for you and your family.  These include but are not limited to:

• Colleague bonus scheme
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here 
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

About the role

Our in-house pensions team is always on the lookout for great Pensions Professionals, whether you are an experienced Pension Call Advisor, Senior Pension Administrator, or a Pension System Analyst, then we may have a role for you!

We are a large in-house team working on all aspects of pensions operations for one of the largest defined benefit pension schemes in the UK. Given our scale we are able to offer a wide variety of work with the benefit of working in a friendly, professional, delivery focussed environment.

You will be responsible for

Depending on your skillset, you could be responsible for answering calls to the Pensions helpline and responding to written enquires either by letter or e-mail ensuring our members receive a great service.

You may have experience of running benefit calculations and have an appetite to get involved in the more technical aspects of pensions such as ‘high earner’ administration; or completing quality checks on complex member communications.

You could be a first line response to capture, investigate and resolve system issues; and help with the maintenance and development of the pensions administration system. Our pensions systems analysts use their expertise in areas including calculations, processes (workflow), document generation, data reporting and testing system functionality - including peer review and sign-off duties.

You will need

1+ years (Pension Call Advisor) or 3+ years (Senior Pension Administrator) of DB Pension Scheme administration experience with knowledge of UK DB pensions legislation. 

Experience of performing technical benefit calculations (Senior Pension Administrator)

A background in developing & maintaining systems; system testing knowledge and an understanding of how to analyse “big” data (desirable for Pension Systems Analyst)

Eye for detail & passion for continuous improvement.

MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)

Please note that some of the above relevant Experience & Operational skills will vary depending on the job type.

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About us

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

Our Welwyn Garden City and Farringdon offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate, and innovate. We believe in working better together and have recently adopted a more blended working week combining office and remote working. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.