Strategic Performance Manager

As a Strategic Total Reward Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and leading our total reward priorities, delivering solutions which support both colleagues and business aspirations.

Operating at a developed level of conceptual thinking, you will help guide the business through change and risk management, ensuring that total reward practices are future-proofed and underpin increased performance.

• Develop customer-centric, data-led total reward solutions to drive differentiated outcomes across specific business units and geographies.
• Collaborate with HR teams to identify opportunities and deliver solutions enhancing the effectiveness of total reward to drive improved business performance.
• Drive leadership and line manager understanding of the value and impact of total reward adoption and use, working with HR and CoE teams to leverage opportunities to enable managers to make balanced, consistent, and unbiased total reward decisions.
• Work with CoE colleagues to identify innovative ways to simplify total reward delivery and drive performance within and across business units through total reward insights.

Implement and embed total reward programmes (cyclical and change) across the business, enhancing total reward value as part of the EVP.

Bring external perspectives and best practice across the business to increase the impact of total reward on organisational performance.

• Business partnering: lead and shape partnerships with leaders to translate business goals into total reward programmes increasing business and individual performance.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills: demonstrate strong analytical ability to analyze data, identify root causes of issues, develop effective solutions, and make data-driven decisions to optimise the Reward CoE's effectiveness by addressing challenges.
• Change and project delivery: highly proficient in change management techniques to facilitate smooth transition of total reward change to attract, reward, and retain colleagues throughout the organisation.
• Storytelling with data/business insights: strong skills in building the case for total reward change, drawing on data and analytical insights, and communicating through customer-centric design.
• Communication: able to communicate confidently and with influence across all total reward matters, tailoring your communication style to suit the intended audience.

Innovation and excellence: constantly build knowledge base through internal and external learning exposure, bringing thought leadership to influence business total reward solutions. Demonstrate ability to grow capability of others through knowledge sharing and coaching.

Mandatory experience:

• Respected total reward expert: at least 7 years' experience of leading effective change across all elements of total reward (including recognition) and performance within disruptive business environments.
• Deep technical total reward experience: expertise developed across design to delivery in at least four reward specialist areas (sales incentive plans, base pay design, incentive design (individual, team, group), job evaluation and grading, recognition, benefits, performance management, executive reward, benchmarking) with the ability to embed change through high-impact education and learning.
• Agile, trusted business partner: experience of relationship building and influencing stakeholders at all levels within a global organisation across a few different sectors, with at least 15,000 employees.
• Governance and risk management experience: significant experience of managing pension, compensation, and benefit plans with accountability for risk management and reporting, delivering operational improvements to proactively manage people risks.
• Demonstrates experience of establishing strong collaborative relationships across HR and the business to deliver significant people change.