Reward Manager - 12 months FTC

If you thrive in a lean team, enjoy operating with autonomy and pace, and bring deep global reward expertise, this role offers a chance to make a meaningful impact from day one.

Global Reward Frameworks & Governance

• Maintain and refine global reward policies and frameworks, ensuring consistency across multiple countries while accommodating local market needs.
• Advise senior leaders and HR teams on reward decisions that balance commercial priorities with compliance and fairness.
• Support governance activity, including preparation of materials and analysis for executive level reward decision-making.

Compensation, Job Architecture & Incentives

• Lead global job evaluation and job levelling activity using recognised methodologies (e.g. Hay, Mercer).
• Manage annual reward cycles including salary review, bonus planning and incentive allocations.
• Contribute to the design and governance of incentive schemes, with particular value placed on experience in sales incentive environments.
• Support executive compensation processes, including long term incentives and share based programmes.

Benefits & Global Programme Management

• Oversee administration of global benefits programmes, ensuring consistency and quality across markets.
• Review and enhance benefits offerings, balancing competitiveness, cost and local expectations.
• Collaborate with local HR teams and external partners to ensure smooth delivery and employee experience.

Reward Operations & Payroll Interface

• Provide reward input into payroll processes where applicable.
• Experience with global payroll operations or implementation of new payroll systems is a welcome advantage (but not essential).

Data, Reporting & Insight

• Produce accurate and timely reward reporting for senior stakeholders.
• Support pay equity assessments, compliance submissions and reward governance reporting.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of urgency and comfort working in a dynamic, fast moving environment.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor to HRBPs, Finance and senior leaders across the business.
• Influence effectively without large team infrastructure.
• Balance strategic oversight with hands on delivery.

Essential Experience

• Strong track record in global reward roles supporting multiple countries.
• Exposure to RemCo activity, executive compensation and long term incentive/share plans.
• Deep expertise in job evaluation and job levelling frameworks.
• Comfortable working independently, prioritising with clarity and delivering at pace.
• Solid grounding in compensation, benchmarking, governance and reward operations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Pragmatic, commercially aware and confident navigating international complexity.
• Enjoys autonomy, accountability and a “progress over perfection” culture.

Highly Desirable

• Experience in sales led businesses or with sales incentive design.
• Background in global benefits review and optimisation.
• Experience in global payroll operations or system rollouts.
• Experience refining or building sales-specific reward programmes.

Qualifications

• CIPD (or equivalent professional qualification/experience) preferred.

If you're energised by global complexity, motivated by meaningful work, and excited to join a business that values pace and impact, we’d love to hear from you.