Strategic Reward Innovator

We are seeking a Senior Specialist to join our Total Reward Centre of Excellence.

The role plays a pivotal part in driving business performance by delivering customer-centric total reward solutions.

As a senior specialist, you will shape and lead our total reward priorities, delivering solutions that support both colleagues and strategic business aspirations.

• Lead Total Reward Advice: Provide guidance and insight across the business unit(s), developing customer-centric, data-led total reward solutions that deliver differentiated outcomes.
• Expert Total Reward: Work with business unit/CU HR teams to identify opportunities and deliver solutions that enhance the effectiveness of total reward, driving improved business performance.
• Drive Leadership Understanding: Increase leadership and line manager understanding of the value and impact of total reward adoption and use, leveraging opportunities to enable managers to make balanced, consistent, and unbiased total reward decisions.
• Innovative Total Reward Delivery: Collaborate with CoE colleagues to simplify total reward delivery and drive performance within and across business units through total reward insights.

Implement and Embed Total Reward Programmes: Develop and embed total reward programmes (cyclical and change) across the business, enhancing total reward value as part of the EVP.

External Perspectives and Best Practice: Bring external perspectives and ingrains best practice across the business to increase the impact of total reward on organisational performance.

Required Skills:

Business Partnering: Lead and shape partnerships with leaders to translate business unit/CU goals into total reward programmes, increasing business and individual performance.

• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Demonstrate strong analytical ability, identifying root causes of issues and making data-driven decisions to optimize the Reward CoE's effectiveness.
• Change and Project Delivery: Highly proficient in change management techniques, facilitating smooth transition of total reward change.
• Storytelling with Data: Strong skills in building the case for total reward change, drawing on data and analytical insights.
• Communication: Confidently communicate across all total reward matters, tailoring your communication style to suit the intended audience.

Leadership Accountabilities:

Experience:

• Customer Champion: Ensure team understanding of customer needs and expectations, using operational and technical expertise to deliver brilliant experiences.
• Change Agent: Drive change programmes and act as a positive role-model during times of ambiguity.
• Collaborative Partner: Build internal and external relationships, collaborating 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 the business.

Mandatory Experience:

• Respected Total Reward Expert: At least 7 years' experience leading effective change across all elements of total reward within disruptive business environments.
• Deep Technical Total Reward Experience: Expertise developed across design to delivery in at least four reward specialist areas, including sales incentive plans, base pay design, and executive reward.
• Agile Trusted Business Partner: Experience building and influencing stakeholders at all levels within a global organisation, managing pension, compensation, and benefit plans.
• Governance and Risk Management: Significant experience managing people risks, establishing collaborative relationships across HR and the business to deliver significant people change.