Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company? 

 Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team? 

Join our HR Services & Benefits Team

The role sits within the HR - Reward, Payroll & HR Services team which sits within a wider HR department. 

Success. The Softcat Way. 

It's an exciting time to be at Softcat, one of the UK's most successful technology solutions businesses. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We've reached the £1 billion+ pa revenue milestone, opened our first office outside the UK and picked up a series of industry awards. We've got even bigger plans for the future. So, if you share our drive and ambition, get ready to achieve more from your career.

Empowering Employee Wellbeing and Benefits at Softcat

The Benefits Specialist is responsible for overseeing and managing the employee benefits within Softcat. This includes health and wellbeing, core and voluntary benefits. The Benefits Specialist ensures that benefits are well communicated, implemented and within budget.

As a Benefits Specialist, you'll be responsible for: 

•  Overseeing administration, design, and delivery of employee benefits
• Ensuring benefit plans comply with HMRC rules and work with Payroll for compliance in build and processing
• Drafting benefit communications, hosting onboarding sessions, and maintaining policies, processes, and brochures related to benefits and Health & Wellbeing
• Managing relationships with benefit providers, brokers, and tools, resolve issues, discuss changes, and highlight key issues to HR Services & Benefits Manager
• Preparing and distributing reports on benefits utilization, costs, and trends, and provide analysis and recommendations for plan improvements
• Developing and conducting benefits sessions for new joiners and employees as requested by departments

We'd love you to have 

• High level of ownership, confidentiality, and attention to detail
• Experience in benefits design, administration, and delivery, with a strong understanding of HMRC rules and working with benefit platforms and tools would be essential
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Proficiency in producing and manipulating management data to inform decisions, along with excellent prioritization, organization, and multitasking skills
• An ability to identify areas for improvement in processes and team ways of working

Work in a way that works for you  

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:  

• Hybrid working – 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home  
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day  
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs 

Working with us  

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.  

Join us  

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.  

You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/ 

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!