Global Head of Reward

Overview

In this hybrid London-based role, you influence global reward strategy and governance to attract and retain top talent. You’ll lead a specialist rewards team and partner with HR, Finance, Legal, and senior leaders to align compensation and benefits with business goals and regulatory requirements. You shape market-ready reward approaches that support growth and cross-border initiatives. This is a high-visibility opportunity to impact the employee value proposition and drive organizational success.

Pay / Benefits

• Comprehensive remuneration aligned to market rates
• Private health and dental cover; life assurance
• Enhanced maternity/paternity and parental leave
• Flexible working arrangements
• Generous annual leave (25 days + UK public holidays)
• Training and development programmes

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, implementation, and governance of compensation, benefits, and reward programmes aligned with business objectives and regulatory needs
• Manage the compensation and benefits budget, key vendor relationships, and associated risk awareness; act as a rewards SME for stakeholders
• Oversee annual salary reviews (base + incentive pay), executive reward processes, and support equity/LTIP administration
• Design reward structures for new and emerging markets; advise on rewards during mergers, acquisitions, and organizational changes; drive innovative market-aligned approaches
• Lead and develop a team of compensation and benefits professionals; manage job evaluation frameworks; deliver reporting and analysis to support rewards initiatives

Key requirements

• Experience in a mature global rewards function with exposure to reward/recognition programmes, equity/LTIP schemes, job evaluation, and market benchmarking
• Contributed to reward strategy development and delivery across multi-jurisdictional, matrixed environments
• Strong project management, analytical and problem-solving skills with a solution-oriented mindset and demonstrated AI proficiency
• Ability to develop proposals and recommendations for senior stakeholders with attention to detail and strong organisational skills
• Resilience, can-do attitude, multitasking capability, and results-focused mindset

• Stakeholder management and relationship-building
• Strategic thinking and commercial acumen
• Strong communication and proposal-writing abilities
• Project management
• Analytical skills and data-driven decision making
• AI proficiency (artificial intelligence)

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