Total Reward Visionary

Future-Oriented Reward Specialist plays a pivotal role in shaping and leading total reward priorities, delivering solutions which support both colleagues and strategic 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 customer-centric.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead total reward advice, guidance, and insight across the business unit(s) within Group frameworks/policies.
• Develop customer-centric, data-led total reward solutions which deliver differentiated outcomes for specific business unit(s) and geographies.
• Identify opportunities and deliver solutions to enhance the effectiveness of total reward to drive improved business performance.
• Ensure seamless Reward CoE activities and processes to deliver customer-centric solutions.
• Drive increased leadership and line manager understanding of the value and impact of total reward adoption and use.
• Work with HR and CoE teams to leverage opportunities to enable managers to make balanced, consistent, and unbiased total reward decisions.

Innovative Ways:

• Identify innovative ways to simplify total reward delivery and drive performance within and across business units through total reward insights.

Programmes Embedment:

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

External Perspectives:

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

Required Skills:

• Business partnering (advanced): lead and shape partnerships with leaders to translate business unit/CU goals into total reward programmes to increase business and individual performance.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills (expert): demonstrate strong analytical ability to analyze data, identify root causes of issues, develop effective solutions, and make data-driven decisions.
• Change and project delivery (expert): highly proficient in change management techniques to facilitate smooth transition of total reward change.
• Storytelling with data/business insights (expert): strong skills in building the case for total reward change, drawing on data and analytical insights.
• Communication (expert): ability to communicate confidently and with influence across all total reward matters.
• Innovation and excellence (expert): build knowledge base through internal and external learning exposure, bringing thought leadership to influence business total reward solutions.

Leadership Accountabilities:

• Customer champion: ensure team understanding of customer needs and expectations.
• Change agent: drive change programmes and act as a positive role-model during times of ambiguity.
• Collaborative partner: build internal and external relationships, collaborating both operationally and technically to deliver business results.
• Commercial thinker: use understanding of internal commercial insight and latest external thinking to develop and implement ideas that benefit BT.

Mandatory Experience:

• Respected, total reward expert: at least 7 years' experience of leading effective change across all elements of total reward.
• Deep technical total reward experience: expertise developed across design to delivery in at least four reward specialist areas.
• Agile, trusted business partner: experience of relationship building and influencing stakeholders at all levels within a global organisation.
• Governance and risk management experience: significant experience of managing pension, compensation, and benefit plans with accountability for risk management and reporting.
• Demonstrates experience of establishing strong collaborative relationships across HR and the business to deliver significant people change.