Location: London (Hybrid working available)
Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Salary: £75,000 pa 12.5% Bonus
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday–Friday
Are you a reward professional ready to step into a pivotal role shaping compensation or benefits strategy within a large, complex organisation? We’re working with a leading employer to find an experienced Reward Manager to join their People team and deliver innovative, market-aligned reward solutions across the business.
About the Role As Reward Manager, you’ll lead the design, enhancement, and execution of key compensation or benefits programmes. Acting as a subject matter expert and business partner, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders across People, Finance, and Communications to deliver solutions that support business priorities, drive engagement, and reflect external market trends.
This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of companywide cyclical reward programmes, influence reward strategy at board level, and help evolve the employee value proposition.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead annual salary reviews, bonus, incentive and/or benefits cycles.
- Manage governance, controls, and communication for all reward activity.
- Act as the go-to expert for compensation or benefits queries across the business.
- Deliver high-impact projects and change initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
- Analyse internal and market data to inform strategy and decision-making.
- Partner with senior stakeholders, including on remuneration committee preparations.
- Build and manage relationships with external suppliers and benchmarking partners.
- Mentor and support junior members of the reward team.
We’re looking for someone with strong reward experience in a complex, fast-moving environment. Whether your background is more compensation- or benefits-focused, you’ll bring commercial acumen, data-driven insight, and excellent stakeholder skills.
You’ll need:
- Proven experience managing large-scale compensation or benefits programmes
- Strong analytical and modelling skills (Excel and/or data visualisation tools)
- A strategic and commercial mindset with attention to detail
- Clear and confident communication skills
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and managing suppliers
- Familiarity with job evaluation methodologies (e.g., WTW) – desirable
- Experience in a unionised environment – beneficial
This is your chance to step into a high-impact role with real visibility, shaping reward strategy for thousands of colleagues. You’ll be supported by a collaborative People team in a company that values inclusion, wellbeing, continuous improvement, and doing the right thing.
If you're ambitious and ready for your next challenge in Reward, we’d love to hear from you.
