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Are you a Compensation Advisor? Ready to take on the challenge and showcase your insight and analytical capabilities, providing analysis and expertise that supports key reward decisions?
Whether you're already working in compensation or looking to build on your experience in reward, HR analytics or people data, you'll play a key role in ensuring our reward practices are fair, competitive and aligned to our business strategy.
This is an exciting opportunity for a professional to join our Reward team and help shape how we reward and recognise our people across the business. You'll be joining a collaborative and supportive team where your ideas are valued, your development is encouraged, and your work has real impact.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll be involved in a variety of rewarding activities, including:
- Supporting job evaluation activities to ensure roles are appropriately graded and aligned to our reward framework.
- Benchmarking roles against external market data to help maintain competitive and equitable pay structures.
- Managing participation in external salary surveys, including job matching, data submission and analysis of results.
- Supporting the delivery of our annual salary review, promotions, merit increases and market pay adjustments.
- Producing meaningful analysis and reporting to inform reward decisions and support senior stakeholders.
- Creating dashboards and reports that turn data into actionable insights.
- Working alongside the Compensation Manager and Head of Reward to develop and enhance our total reward strategy.
- Identifying opportunities to improve processes, reporting and the overall effectiveness of our reward programmes.
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About You
- Experience in compensation, reward, HR analytics or a similar role.
- Knowledge or exposure to job evaluation methodologies.
- Experience using salary survey data, with Willis Towers Watson or PayData experience being advantageous.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and confidence working with large datasets.
- Strong Microsoft Word and PowerPoint skills.
- Power BI experience would be beneficial.
- Excellent analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills.
- Outstanding attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.
- Strong communication skills and the confidence to work with stakeholders across all levels of the business.
- A professional approach to handling confidential information and an understanding of GDPR requirements.
Why join Laing O'Rourke?
At Laing O'Rourke, we invest in our people, encourage fresh thinking and provide opportunities to develop your career in a supportive environment.
In Return, You'll Have The Opportunity To
- Make a genuine impact on how we reward and recognise our people.
- Work with experienced Reward professionals on strategic initiatives.
- Develop your expertise in compensation, analytics and reward.
- Be part of a collaborative team that values new ideas and continuous improvement.
- Build a long-term career with one of the UK's leading engineering and construction organisations.


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About Us
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
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