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Total Reward Partner
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As the Reward Partner, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering a global reward strategy for a complex, international organisation. Partnering closely with the Head of Reward, you'll lead cyclical reward activities, analyse market trends, ensure compliance with evolving legislation, and act as a trusted expert to senior stakeholders across the business. This is a high-impact, specialist role where your insight will directly influence reward decisions and organisational performance.
This is a fast-paced environment suitable for a confident reward specialist who can build strong relationships and who thrives on ownership, pace, and accountability. With succession planning in mind, this position offers a clear pathway to becoming the future Head of Reward for the organisation.
Responsibilities
As Total Reward Partner, you will be responsible for:
- Annual reward cycles - Lead key processes including annual salary review, short-term and long-term incentive plans, and ad-hoc reward programmes.
- Global mobility support - Contribute to global mobility activity and statutory reporting for globally mobile employees, including short-term business visitor requirements.
- Regulatory reporting - Support delivery of CEO pay ratio, Gender Pay Gap, EU Pay Transparency requirements and Directors' Remuneration reporting.
- Stakeholder engagement - Work with senior leaders and third-party providers, presenting updates and insights, ensuring strong governance, clarity, and evidence-based decision-making.
- Complex reward queries - Provide clear, transparent advice on a wide range of specialist reward matters.
- Reward strategy delivery - Support the Head of Reward in executing the global reward strategy across the organisation. Provide benchmarking, workforce analytics, and market insights to inform reward decisions.
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What You Need to Succeed
- CIPD Chartered membership or equivalent specialist reward experience.
- Experience in a senior reward, compensation, or total reward role within a complex organisation. (Global expertise desirable).
- Excellent stakeholder management, analytical thinking, and the confidence to operate as a subject-matter expert, paired with the confidence to present to senior leaders.
- Strong technical capability in Excel and reward analytics - comfortable working with large, complex datasets.
- Hunger, pace, and accountability - someone who responds quickly, takes ownership, and thrives in an environment that can be reactive.
- Project management capability - Proven ability to manage projects and deliver successful outcomes.
- Experience with job evaluation methodologies and global mobility is advantageous.
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As the Reward Partner, you will have the opportunity to influence and deliver a global reward strategy, with exposure to senior leadership and high-level decision-making, in a role with international scope that offers variety and complexity.
Benefits
- Up to 7 ½ % pension contribution
- 25 days plus bank holiday (plus option to purchase additional annual leave)
- Employee coverage for private medical (optional family coverage if desired)
- Death in service coverage (2.5x)
- EAP scheme
- Childcare vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Plus others.
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