Total Reward Partner

Description:

Your New Role

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.
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.
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.
What you need to do now
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