Senior Reward Manager

Overview

In this senior role, you will lead Benefits and Wellbeing strategy for Value Retail Europe, steering programmes across seven countries. You’ll mentor the Rewards function, align benefits with the people experience philosophy, and contribute to compensation initiatives as needed. You will influence senior stakeholders, ensure governance and compliance, and drive data-informed decisions to deliver competitive, compliant, and cost-effective reward solutions. This is a strategic, high-impact position with opportunities to extend into broader compensation leadership as capability grows.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end benefits strategy for Value Retail Europe and ensure competitive, compliant, and cost-effective programmes
• Lead the Feel Good wellbeing strategy across diverse geographies
• Act as the Benefits centre of excellence, advising senior People Operations and HR colleagues
• Maintain policy consistency with company objectives across contracts and communications
• Manage relationships with benefit advisors, brokers, vendors, and platforms (including Ben)
• Collaborate with Finance, Legal and People Operations to ensure compliance and controls
• Deliver high-quality reward insight and reporting to inform cost, competitiveness and equity decisions
• Lead or contribute to reward projects including transformations, system enhancements and regulatory changes
• Support the Head of Reward on broader compensation topics and participate in the longer-term development of the Rewards function
• Maintain governance across benefits and compensation, with policy frameworks, controls and audit readiness
• Monitor European regulatory and market developments and adapt programmes accordingly
• Ensure data integrity across People, payroll, benefits and compensation processes

Key requirements

• 7–10+ years in Reward with strong exposure to both benefits and compensation
• Deep benefits expertise across multiple European countries with some compensation design or delivery experience
• Proven ability to operate at Senior Manager level and influence senior stakeholders
• Experience in job evaluation, pay structures, benchmarking and annual review cycles
• Strong commercial acumen and experience managing brokers, vendors and survey providers
• Excellent analytical skills with advanced Excel and complex reward data handling
• Clear, confident communicator capable of translating reward concepts into pragmatic guidance
• Trusted and discreet with sound judgement on sensitive reward matters
• Curious and forward-thinking with a drive to expand scope and impact
• Employee-centric mindset aligned to Value Retail’s experience-driven philosophy
• Familiarity with SuccessFactors and Ben benefits platforms is an advantage

• stakeholder management
• analytical mindset
• clear communication
• advanced Excel
• SuccessFactors (SF)
• Ben benefits platform

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