Pensions Technical Training Consultant

Technical Training Consultant

Are you a pensions professional with a passion for developing others and sharing technical expertise? This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly respected pensions organisation as a Technical Training Consultant in Glasgow, playing a key role in enhancing technical knowledge, capability, and service excellence across a national pensions administration function.

Working within a specialist technical consulting and training team, you’ll help shape and deliver technical learning programmes, support colleagues through mentoring and coaching, and ensure administration teams remain up to date with ever-changing pensions legislation and industry best practice.

The Opportunity

As a Technical Training Consultant, you will act as the bridge between technical pension specialists and administration teams, helping to build confidence and expertise across Defined Benefit (DB), Defined Contribution (DC), and Career Average Revalued Earnings (CARE) pension arrangements.

This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys combining technical pensions knowledge with training, coaching, and stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver technical pensions training programmes.
• Identify knowledge gaps and create learning solutions to address them.
• Support and mentor pensions administration colleagues on complex technical matters.
• Deliver induction and ongoing technical development training.
• Ensure teams remain informed of legislative and regulatory changes affecting pension schemes.
• Develop and maintain networks of technical champions across administration teams.
• Create and update training materials and learning resources.
• Manage technical learning plans, training records, and development programmes.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives through research, knowledge sharing, and best practice guidance.
• Collaborate with operational, project, and technical teams to identify emerging training needs.

Skills & experience required:

We’re keen to speak with pensions professionals who possess strong technical expertise and a desire to develop others.

You’ll ideally have:

• Experience within UK pensions administration.
• Strong knowledge of DB, DC, and/or CARE pension schemes.
• Experience completing and reviewing complex pension calculations.
• A thorough understanding of pensions legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• The ability to explain complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Knowledge of pension administration processes and their interaction with payroll and benefits systems.
• Understanding of regulatory bodies including The Pensions Regulator, HMRC requirements, and Data Protection legislation.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a technically strong pensions professional looking to move into a specialist training and development role, or for an existing technical trainer seeking a new challenge within a highly regarded pensions consultancy.

To find out more, please get in touch for a confidential discussion.