Stuart Eccles

I am an experienced share plans professional with thirteen years plus experience across share plans in two key roles:

Senior client / relationship manager on administrator side with a proven record of managing multinational clients, stabilising, developing, evolving accounts and relationships.

Share Plan Lead on issuer / in house side managing UK, Global and Discretionary share plans across all equity activity.

Prior to share plans world, I worked for one business, multiple roles in different business units as a client / project manager with a proven record of successful delivery of technical product launches, cost saving and business change projects.

Share Plans Lead

• Leadership of share plan administration across Discretionary, UK and global Employee Share Plan, live in eighteen countries, circa 27k eligible employees. 
• Delivery of successful event activity. 
• Management of relationship with share plan administrator supplier. 
• Interaction with external stake holders across tax and regulatory affairs. 
• Assessment & completion of share plan related tax filings. 
• Administration of mobile employee tax withholding requirements & reporting. 

Client Management

• Portfolio of multinational and global listed clients
• Partnering with client teams on major implementations, migrations, product, plan launches and evolutions 
• Development & implementation of client account strategies. 
• Oversight and leadership of major client & business change projects across, technology, corporate transactions, and regulatory change. 
• Delivery of consistent extensive portfolio revenue growth year on year 
• Leadership of fee & contractual negotiations 
• Secured multiple client industry awards working in collaboration with clients. 

Project Management

• Leadership of clients, teams and colleagues through major change projects
• Successful implementation of major cost saving initiatives
• Delivery of major technical / engineering projects
• Launch of over one thousand chilled food products

ISCA Cert. Employee Share Plans 

The ICSA course has been designed especially for: Benefit consultants who advise on employee and executive share plans. This is the only professional employee share plan qualification available in the UK.

BSC Hons Degree: Hospitality & Food Science 

My degree was a Hospitality degree, where I opted to specialise in food science elements in order to move into Food product development as my initial career.