HR Programme Manager

HR Programme Manager – Equity & Organisational Design

Location: Flexible across the UK or Europe - Remote
Contract: Fixed Term – 12 months, with flexibility depending on project delivery and organisational priorities
Salary: £75k - £80k

I am looking for an experienced HR Programme Manager to join a reputable organisation on a 12-month fixed-term basis and lead a portfolio of high-profile, strategic people initiatives.

This is an opportunity to make a significant impact across Reward, Organisation Design and HR transformation, working closely with senior HR, Finance and Commercial leaders to create scalable, transparent and future-ready people frameworks.

Your work will span equity and sales incentive design, job architecture and grading, organisation design, and pay transparency, helping to ensure our people practices support both business growth and evolving regulatory requirements across Europe and the UK.

What you’ll be responsible for

Equity & Sales Incentive Design

• Lead the design and implementation of an equity programme aligned to key strategic priorities, particularly across our Commercial organisation.
• Develop a unified sales incentive framework across Injectables and Energy-Based Devices (EBD), bringing greater consistency across regions and countries.
• Partner with Finance and Commercial leadership to define performance measures, payout mechanisms and governance structures.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, harmonise and improve existing incentive arrangements.

Job Architecture, Grading & Organisation Design

• Review existing roles, organisational structures and layers across functions and geographies.
• Develop a clear, scalable job family and grading architecture that supports consistency and career progression.
• Establish transparent career pathways and progression frameworks.
• Design organisational structures that support our evolving operating model.
• Develop practical tools, principles and documentation to support ongoing job evaluation and organisational design decisions.
• Bring structure and clarity to complex organisational challenges.

Pay Transparency & Regulatory Readiness

• Lead our organisational readiness for the EU Pay Transparency Directive and emerging UK pay transparency legislation.
• Translate regulatory requirements into practical, scalable HR processes and frameworks.
• Establish robust approaches to pay equity, gender pay gap analysis and salary band governance.
• Support consistent and transparent compensation decision-making.
• Partner with HR and business leaders on policy updates, communication and change management to embed new approaches effectively.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for someone who combines deep Reward expertise with strong programme management and stakeholder leadership skills.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Proven experience working with European and UK pay transparency requirements, with the ability to interpret legislation and translate it into practical organisational solutions.
• Strong experience designing and consolidating sales incentive schemes, ideally within a complex, multi-country environment.
• Demonstrable expertise in job architecture, grading and organisation design, with experience of methodologies such as WTW, Aon or Hay.
• Experience leading complex, company-wide strategic programmes from design through to implementation.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with confidence partnering with and influencing C-suite and senior leadership teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to turn complex data and information into clear recommendations.
• Experience developing and presenting senior leadership or Board-level reports and recommendations.
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, complex and transformation-focused environment.
• A relevant qualification or professional background in Reward.
• A formal project management qualification would be advantageous.

Why this role?

This is a high-impact opportunity to help shape how we approach reward, career architecture, organisational design and pay transparency across our business.

You’ll have significant exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to influence programmes that will have a lasting impact on our people, our operating model and how we support future growth.

If you’re a strategic Reward professional who enjoys solving complex problems, bringing structure to ambiguity and turning strategy into practical, scalable solutions, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now to join us for this important phase of our transformation.

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