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Head of Total Reward & Payroll
Location: West London (Hybrid – 3 days in the office)
Salary: £95,000 + 15% Bonus
Contract: 15-Month Fixed Term Contract
Team Management: 3 Direct Reports
The Role
This is a senior leadership opportunity to head up the Total Reward function, leading all aspects of compensation, benefits, and payroll across Europe. You'll partner closely with HR and business leaders to deliver strategic reward initiatives while ensuring operational excellence. The role combines strategic planning with hands-on leadership and is ideal for someone comfortable operating autonomously within a complex international business.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Total Reward function across compensation, benefits, and payroll for approximately 1,300 employees across Europe.
- Manage and develop a team of three covering payroll, compensation, and reward analytics.
- Own annual reward activities including salary reviews, bonus cycles, benefits renewals, benchmarking, and Gender Pay Gap reporting.
- Lead strategic projects including pay transparency, reward governance, process improvements, and the continued development of the Total Reward function.
- Partner with HR, Finance, and senior leadership to provide expert reward guidance and oversee international payroll and reward operations.
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What They're Looking For
- Strong experience leading a Total Reward, Compensation & Benefits, or Reward & Payroll function.
- Previous management experience with the ability to coach and develop a small specialist team.
- Excellent knowledge of compensation, benefits, and payroll, including international payroll exposure.
- Experience with HRIS systems (ideally Workday) and external benchmarking providers would be highly desirable.
- Understanding of pay transparency legislation and experience driving reward strategy and governance.
- Professional qualification such as CIPD, CIPP, or equivalent preferred.
- Experience within a fast-paced, international organization would be advantageous.
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JGA Recruitment Group Ltd ("We") are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships. We strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply. We are also committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are a specialist payroll, HR & Reward recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business). These statements together with our privacy notices set out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
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