People Insight and Reward Manager

Overview

As People Insight and Reward Manager, you will lead workforce intelligence, pay and reward services to support strategic decision-making and long-term workforce planning. You will translate complex data into actionable insights for senior leaders and drive continuous improvement through technology-enabled solutions. You will lead a specialist team and collaborate with HR, Finance and ICT to shape workforce strategy and organisation performance. This role offers a chance to influence pivotal people priorities in a large council.

Pay / Benefits

• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• mindfulness workshops
• Generous Pension Scheme
• discounts on Costco membership
• gym memberships and travel discounts

Responsibilities

• Lead the council’s workforce data, insight, pay and reward functions
• Develop people analytics, workforce reporting and strategic workforce intelligence
• Lead annual pay review processes and reward programmes
• Provide expert guidance to senior leaders on workforce and reward matters
• Oversee job evaluation, pay governance and reward frameworks
• Manage statutory workforce reporting, data governance and compliance
• Drive workforce planning and data-led decision making
• Champion continuous improvement, digital transformation and service redesign initiatives
• Build relationships with senior stakeholders, trade unions and external partners
• Sponsor and deliver major workforce, reward and organisational change programmes

Key requirements

• Significant experience in people insight, workforce analytics, pay or related specialist field
• Expertise in workforce data analysis, people analytics and reward strategy
• Experience overseeing job evaluation processes and maintaining pay and grading integrity
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing and negotiation skills
• Experience developing and implementing strategic frameworks, policies and improvement programmes
• Excellent leadership and people management capabilities
• Advanced ICT skills, including experience of HR systems and advanced Excel
• Degree-level education or equivalent experience
• A relevant professional qualification, or be working towards one
• A full driving licence and ability to travel to offices in Aylesbury

• stakeholder management
• influencing
• negotiation
• advanced Excel
• HR systems
• data storytelling capability

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