Benefits & Reward Manager

Overview

Join our UK&I People team as Benefits & Reward Manager to shape a modern, data-driven reward proposition across the UK and Ireland. You will design, deliver, and continuously improve benefits and pay programs, partnering with HR, Finance, Payroll, and external providers. You’ll manage annual salary reviews, benchmarking, governance, and pay equity while driving engagement and retention. This role combines strategy with hands-on delivery in a complex, multi-entity organisation. You will have autonomy to influence the employee experience and commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and ongoing development of our benefits and reward programmes
• Manage relationships with benefits brokers, providers and technology partners
• Drive the annual pay review and bonus cycles
• Support compensation benchmarking, market analysis and reward strategy development
• Deliver statutory reporting, including Gender Pay Gap reporting and pay transparency requirements
• Use data, insights and analytics to optimise employee experience and programme effectiveness
• Oversee digital benefits platforms and support continuous process improvement
• Develop engaging communications that help employees understand and maximise their total reward package
• Ensure compliance with relevant UK and Ireland legislation and governance requirements

Key requirements

• Experience across both Benefits and Reward
• Strong knowledge of flexible benefits, pensions and reward frameworks
• Experience managing annual salary review and bonus cycles
• The ability to operate within a complex organisational structure with multiple legal entities and employee populations
• Experience managing differing benefit and reward arrangements across worker types and employment groups
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into meaningful recommendations
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Experience working with HR systems, benefits platforms and people data
• A commercial mindset with a passion for improving employee experience

• Stakeholder management
• Influencing
• Analytical thinking
• HR systems
• Benefits platforms
• Data analytics

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