Job Description:

We are working with a leading financial services organisation who are seeking a Director to join their team.

You will act as a senior adviser to trustee boards, providing expert insight, strategic challenge, and practical leadership across trust-based pension arrangements, including scheme administration reviews, market benchmarking, and provider due diligence. This is a genuinely client and board-facing role: the ability to present recommendations clearly and persuasively to trustee boards is as important as the technical analysis behind them.

London is preferred for this role, though there is flexibility for the right candidate to be based at one of the firm's other UK office locations.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Extensive experience working with trust-based pension schemes, with strong knowledge of both defined contribution (DC) and defined benefit (DB) arrangements.
• Strong understanding of the UK pensions landscape, including market structure, provider models, regulatory developments and emerging industry trends.
• Demonstrable ability to understand, evaluate and compare pension providers and propositions, drawing on market knowledge, analysis and sound judgement.
• Proven experience presenting to and engaging directly with trustee boards.
• Professional services background with genuine client delivery accountability.
• Understanding of technology within pension administration, including current market tools and digital reporting solutions.
• Strong analytical and research capability, with the ability to interpret complex qualitative and quantitative information and present clear, evidence-based conclusions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the credibility to engage, challenge and influence senior stakeholders.

Core Responsibilities:

• Provide subject matter expertise across trust-based pension schemes, this requires an understanding of governance, administration, actuarial, investment, legal, and service delivery models.
• Research and evaluate pension providers, monitoring market developments and changes within the pensions sector.
• Conduct detailed analysis of pension providers' service structures, including market segmentation, positioning, pricing strategies, services offered, and delivery models.
• Lead and contribute to strategic reviews and investigative projects aimed at improving pension provision and member outcomes for clients.
• Present findings, insights and recommendations clearly to trustee boards and senior stakeholders, managing challenge where recommendations carry significant cost or change implications.
• Develop and recommend practical, evidence-based solutions delivering optimal outcomes, ensuring recommendations are achievable and sustainable.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to support the implementation of agreed pension solutions.
• Produce clear, well-structured reports and insights to inform decision-making at senior and strategic levels.

Benefits:

• A highly competitive salary
• Wider benefits package including private medical insurance, group life assurance, pension contribution, and hybrid working

Job reference: 16543

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Core-Asset Consulting offers specialist recruitment services to asset management, accounting & finance, asset servicing, legal and the wider financial services sector in Scotland.

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

At Core-Asset, we're committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Our privacy statement explains when and why we collect personal information about people who engage with our services, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, and how we keep it secure. We may change this policy from time to time, so please check this policy occasionally to ensure that you're happy with any changes.

By engaging with us (either by applying for a job we're advertising, registering through our website, or getting in touch with our business) you're agreeing to be bound by this policy.

Core-Asset Consulting is committed to protecting the privacy of our candidates, clients and website users. For further information, please refer to our full Privacy Statement available on our website http://www.core-asset.co.uk/about-core-asset/privacy-statement

Core-Asset Consulting offers specialist recruitment services to asset management, accounting & finance, asset servicing, legal and the wider financial services sector in Scotland.