Sharon Hudson

What Do You Enjoy Most About Your Role

Working with Clients to understand their objectives and building a collaborative team of different service providers to deliver. Having worked predominantly on buy-out and winding up Schemes for the last 25 years, there are always new challenges and interesting obstacles to negotiate.

Interests Outside of Work

First and foremost going to see all kinds of live music, the cinema, theatre, Zumba and gardening.

Top Achievement To Date

Passing my driving test aged 60 on a second attempt.

Sharon Hudson

Sharon Hudson

Project Manager

Sharon has over 40 years’ experience in the pensions industry, beginning her career in administration with one of the UK’s largest benefit consultancies. Throughout this time, she has managed teams responsible for delivering ongoing administration services and played a key role in the installation of new schemes. Sharon has established administration processes and provided comprehensive training and support to employer in-house pension support teams. She has collaborated closely with Trustees and employers to build collaborative relationships with all service providers, ensuring smooth delivery of complex projects.

For the last 28 years, Sharon has specialised in de-risking and endgame solutions, becoming a recognised expert in managing a wide range of projects designed to reduce scheme liabilities. Her expertise includes winding-up lump sums, enhanced transfer values, pension increase exchange, and trivial commutation exercises. She has experience working with schemes winding up in deficit, navigating the complexities of cutting back member benefits, consulting with the Pension Protection Fund and the Financial Assistance Scheme. Equally, she has supported schemes winding up with a surplus, assisting with member benefit enhancements and managing the return of surplus payments to employers.

Sharon has been involved in numerous buy-in and buy-out transactions and has developed detailed knowledge of most buy-out insurers’ pre and post transaction processes and requirements. Having led a specialist endgame administration team, she fully understands the complexity of data requirements and appreciates the meticulous administrative work necessary to discharge liabilities correctly.

Since joining Pi, Sharon has been instrumental in supporting trustees’ understanding of the endgame journey, helping them set realistic expectations around timing and risk management. She has guided two schemes through buy-in preparation and transactions, provided trustee training and support to boards preparing for buy-outs and administration transitions, and assisted in managing projects to simplify DC schemes with DB underpin benefits ahead of buy-in.

Diversity

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone has different needs, and we support this balance offering true flexibility in how our people manage their time and fully support part time working and a family friendly approach.

Communication

Communication

We believe in clear and transparent communication and create regular opportunities for internal communication. Our regular business updates and opportunities to input into the business ensures everyone feels part of the team and on the same page at Pi, ensuring our hybrid working model is effective regardless of where you are based.

Development

Development

Nurturing every Pi Person is important to us and we want to ensure everyone has the opportunity for continued professional development by providing the space to do this alongside client commitments. Everyone has an individual Personal Development Plan catered to them, whether they are on the start of their journey with Pi or those looking at ways to transition into the next stage of their careers.

Everyone has the opportunity for a regular development and progression review and everyone has ownership over their own development with input and guidance of senior member of the team where required.

We provide regular opportunities to share knowledge amongst our teams through Lunch Time Learn in sessions and actively encourage involvement and participation into this.

Culture

Culture

We are an open, friendly and supportive team who thrive in a flexible and autonomous environment. Our people are trusted to get on with things, adding value and individual contribution, whilst maintaining a good work life balance and ideally having fun along the way.

We want to ensure we cultivate our special culture and our focus is to maintain our exceptional engagement levels. We are proud to have been awarded the Sunday Times Best Place to Work for small businesses in 2023 and 2024, and also in 2025 after moving to the medium-sized business category.

Employee Owned

Employee Owned

Our employee ownership structure is central to our philosophy of making sure every Pi Person is part of our success story, contributing to how we run the business, and sharing in the profits. We know that being successful is not just down to numbers, it’s about our people who all contribute in their unique way to our success and creating a working environment where everyone has a voice.

Visit Us

2nd Floor Tuition House, 27-37 St. George’s Road, Wimbledon, London, SW19 4EU

Email Us

enquiries@pipg.co.uk

our team

Amanda Burden

Director and Governance Specialist

Amanda is a Board Director of Pi Partnership Group and leads the development of Pi’s services. She works closely with clients, the Pi team and professional advisers to ensure all of Pi’s services meet the changing needs of the pension market and deliver clear value to Pi’s clients.

Amanda has over twenty-five years’ experience in the pensions industry and, as well as ensuring Pi’s services continue to meet the needs of our clients in a rapidly changing pension landscape, is also a member of Pi’s Executive Management Team. She provides specialist project management for clients on a range of services, including adviser selection and review, trustee board assessment and governance design.

As well as being a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and Chair of the PMI London Group, Amanda holds PMI certificates in Pensions Automatic Enrolment and DC Governance, was a past Prince2 practitioner and is a Certified Risk Management Practitioner.

What do you most enjoy about your role:  Successfully delivering complex projects and creating a happy team environment.

Interests outside work: Travel, theatre and as part of Abundance London helping create beautiful spaces in urban settings.

Top achievement to date: Competing in the 2005/06 Round the World Clipper race.