- Developing and implementing the total reward strategy, ensuring this aligns with business goals
- Designing competitive reward structures for pay, bonuses, benefits and incentives
- Leading activities surrounding job evaluation, market analysis and pay benchmarking in order to identify opportunities for improvement
- Managing the annual pay review process and incentive schemes
- Taking leadership of the reward and pay teams, managing their KPIs and providing training support where needed
- Reviewing and selecting team member benefits programs including pension and healthcare
- Promoting team member recognition initiatives to ensure fair compensation
- Collaborating with the system teams to develop reward dashboard and metrics, alongside trend information and analysis to influence key commercial and also market insight related decision making
- Overseeing payroll for all team members, ensuring that statutory payments and deductions are processed, and leading payroll and benefit system upgrades and implementations
- Submitting returns to HMRC and other regulatory bodies, and ensure compliance with HMRC and tax, employment and tax legislation
- Providing trend information and analysis to support
- Ensuring that appropriate controls are in place as well as audit trails and reconciliations
- Relevant qualification (CIPD/CIPP)
- Significant experience in managing both payroll and reward, including introducing new benefits, supplier engagement, conducting market comparisons and utilising job evaluation methodologies
- Exposure to working within a large, multi-site business within reward and payroll
- Excellent knowledge of payroll legislation, UK reward regulations, HMRC and pension schemes
- Good systems knowledge, including specific experience in using iTrent payroll and Wagestream
- Experience in change management, as well as payroll transitions and implementations
- Fantastic leadership capabilities, supplemented by sound communication and stakeholder engagement skills