Data-Driven Decision Making & Compliance

• Establish and maintain strong reward governance across all compensation, benefits, recognition, and executive reward programmes to ensure fairness, transparency, compliance, and alignment with organisational goals.
• Monitor external market trends, regulatory changes, investor expectations, and competitive reward practice, translating insight into practical recommendations for senior leadership.
• Use reward analytics, benchmarking, and workforce data to guide strategic decisions, manage cost and risk, and clearly explain the implications of reward choices to executive and HR stakeholders.

Process Optimisation & Change Management

• Lead the simplification, digitisation, and continuous improvement of reward processes, policies, systems, and governance frameworks.
• Lead change management for major reward initiatives, ensuring clear communications, stakeholder engagement, manager enablement, and appropriate training support.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Significant senior-level experience leading Total Rewards in a high-growth, global organisation, with proven accountability for setting strategy and advising executive stakeholders.
• Expertise in global compensation, benefits, and rewards, with a strong understanding of US, UK, and Ireland markets.
• Experience designing and leading enterprise-wide reward strategies, managing pay structures, overseeing executive compensation programmes, and translating business strategy into practical reward solutions.
• Demonstrated experience leading executive compensation strategy and preparing disclosure materials for U.S. public companies or IPO readiness, with deep knowledge of SEC regulations including CD&A, Summary Compensation Tables, and pay-versus-performance disclosures.
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Legal, Finance, and external advisors, and to influence senior stakeholders through the development of clear, board-ready materials and effective support for Remuneration Committee and Board engagement.
• Experience operating as a senior leadership team member, contributing beyond functional expertise to broader people strategy, organisational priorities, and enterprise decision making.
• Strong programme leadership skills, with experience implementing compensation cycles, job levelling, benchmarking, and reward transformation initiatives.
• Strong change management experience, combined with high-quality written and verbal communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills, with experience using reward data to guide decision making and influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience with global job architecture, governance frameworks, reward analytics, and compensation reporting.
• Able to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth, and ambiguous environment.

About us

We help our clients navigate their clinical development and commercialization journey by connecting the best scientific knowledge, market intelligence, actionable data, technology, communication, and creative execution.

With a global presence and multiple career paths, the career possibilities are expanding at Inizio. We’re a growing global team of over 10,000 people - a $1.5bn revenue business working with the world’s leading health and life sciences businesses, and we have exciting growth plans. Whoever and wherever you are, we’ll empower you with the autonomy you need to experiment, learn, and grow. We’ll make sure that you feel valued, supported and, of course, because we’re helping our clients to transform healthcare and improve millions of lives you can feel pride in your work at Inizio.

Our Pledge

At Inizio, we value inclusivity, recognize the power of diversity, and inspire the next generation of change-makers. We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in creating a work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strive to recruit from a diverse slate of candidates and foster an environment that provides the right conditions for long-term success. We welcome all applications regardless of race, colour, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation and physical or mental disability.

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Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.