Senior Reward Manager

Reward plays a critical role in attracting, motivating and retaining talented people. We’re looking for an experienced Senior Reward Manager to join a high-performing Group Reward team, providing expert reward advice and partnership across a broad corporate and operational population.

This is an excellent opportunity for a reward professional who enjoys combining strategic thinking with hands-on delivery. You’ll work closely with HR and business leaders, influencing key reward decisions while ensuring reward practices are competitive, equitable, commercially effective and aligned with organisational priorities.
 

The Opportunity

As a Senior Reward Manager, you will act as a trusted adviser to HR and business stakeholders, supporting a wide range of reward activities including compensation review, market benchmarking, job evaluation, pay analysis and reward strategy implementation.

You’ll play a leading role in the annual compensation review process, delivering robust analysis, modelling and governance while providing stakeholders with the insight needed to make informed pay decisions.

Working across HR, Finance, Talent Acquisition and leadership teams, you’ll help ensure reward programmes support business performance while maintaining high standards of governance, consistency and employee experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expert reward advice on hiring, promotions, retention, organisational change, terminations and reward package design.
• Partner with HR and business leaders to support strategic workforce and reward decisions.
• Lead the planning and delivery of annual compensation review activities, including modelling, budget tracking, governance and reporting.
• Conduct market benchmarking and reward analysis to inform salary positioning, incentive recommendations and pay decisions.
• Support the development and implementation of reward frameworks, policies and practices.
• Deliver meaningful reward insights through high-quality data analysis and modelling.
• Ensure reward activities are delivered in line with governance standards, policies and regulatory requirements.
• Build strong relationships across HR, Finance, Talent Acquisition and business teams to deliver a seamless reward service.
• Identify opportunities to improve reward processes, reporting and stakeholder experience.

About You

You will bring strong technical reward expertise together with excellent stakeholder management and analytical skills.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Significant experience within Reward, Compensation & Benefits, Reward Advisory or Reward Analytics.
• Strong knowledge of compensation review processes, salary benchmarking, job evaluation methodologies and reward governance.
• Experience advising senior stakeholders on complex reward matters.
• Advanced analytical and data modelling capabilities.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to balance business needs with reward principles.
• Excellent communication, influencing and relationship-building skills.
• Experience working with confidential and sensitive employee data.
• The ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

A degree-level qualification or equivalent professional experience is expected. CIPD, Reward or Compensation-related qualifications would be advantageous.

What’s on Offer

This role offers the opportunity to influence reward outcomes across a large and diverse organisation while partnering with senior stakeholders and contributing to strategic people initiatives. You’ll join a collaborative reward team where technical expertise, innovation and continuous improvement are highly valued.

If you’re a commercially minded reward professional looking for your next challenge, we’d love to hear from you.