Carter Jonas
Reward and Benefits Manager
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At Carter Jonas we're seeking a strategic and commercially minded Reward & Benefits Manager based in our Peterborough Office.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a key role within our People & Performance Team, driving reward transformation, enhancing employee experience, and ensuring our reward framework supports long-term business success.
Our Benefits:
- Wonderful working culture
- Competitive salary and good annual leave offering
- Flexible benefits including salary sacrifice Electric car scheme, holiday purchase of up to 5 extra days, health cash plans, hybrid working, cycle-to-work scheme
Working within a Partnership is something truly special, offering a level of collaboration, shared success, and long-term commitment that sets it apart from more traditional corporate structures.
In addition, we welcome applications from those seeking flexible or agile working arrangements.
What You'll Be Doing
As Reward & Benefits Manager, you will:
- Lead the development and implementation of our reward strategy and roadmap.
- Drive reward transformation initiatives, including job architecture, career frameworks, pay structures and governance.
- Oversee annual salary reviews, bonus and incentive programmes, market benchmarking and pay equity analysis.
- Design and deliver competitive reward and benefits packages that support attraction, retention and performance.
- Lead our benefits and wellbeing strategy, ensuring a compelling and inclusive employee offering.
- Champion the use of technology, automation and data-driven decision-making across reward processes.
- Implement and optimise reward, compensation and people technology platforms.
- Ensure reward governance, compliance and reporting meet legislative and best practice standards.
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Essential Experience & Skills
- Significant experience in Reward & Benefits management, ideally within a professional services or partnership environment.
- Experience implementing job/ pay architecture or career framework projects. Development of reward scheme design and benchmarking to balance costs, drive engagement and enable performance.
- Proven track record of leading reward strategy, transformation and change programmes. Able to influence leadership and outline a compelling business case.
- Experience implementing reward planning, compensation or people technology solutions.
- Strong analytical and data interpretation skills. Able to convey the insights and story behind the data for a non-technical audience.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing abilities.
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Desirable Experience & Qualifications
- Experience supporting Partner remuneration frameworks.
- Job Evaluation experience/credential e.g. Hay/Radford / Mercer / PayScale or similar.
- Good understanding of Salary Sacrifice, Benefits Providers and Platforms.
- Experience with HRIS, compensation planning or people analytics platforms.
- Professional reward or benefits qualifications / CIPD.
Why Join Us?
This is a fantastic opportunity to lead and shape a modern reward function, influence senior leadership decisions, and help build an engaging, high-performing workplace where people can thrive.
Ready to make an impact? We'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help us create a reward strategy that drives success for our people and our business.
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