Reward Manager in London

Frazer Jones is delighted to be partnering with a leading professional services organisation to recruit an experienced Reward Manager into its established and high-performing people function. This is an exciting opportunity to join a business recognised for its collaborative culture, strong growth trajectory and continued investment in its people agenda. Operating across a complex and professional workforce, the organisation is committed to delivering a market-leading employee experience, with reward playing a critical role in attracting, retaining and developing talent.

Reporting into the senior Reward leadership team, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering reward initiatives across the business. Working closely with HR leaders and senior stakeholders, you will provide expert reward advice while helping to design, implement and continuously improve compensation frameworks, salary review processes and reward programmes. This is a broad and highly visible role, offering exposure to both strategic reward projects and day-to-day advisory activity within a sophisticated and evolving environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading annual salary review processes, including benchmarking, modelling, affordability analysis and governance
• Designing and maintaining salary structures, pay frameworks and job evaluation methodologies
• Developing reward analytics and insight to support business decision-making and identify areas for improvement
• Partnering with HR teams and business leaders to provide expert guidance on compensation, reward and recognition matters
• Supporting the development and implementation of reward strategies aligned to wider business objectives
• Managing and delivering reward-related projects, identifying opportunities to improve policies, processes and ways of working
• Collaborating with colleagues across HR, Shared Services, HR Systems and other Centres of Excellence to enhance the employee experience
• Producing meaningful reward communications that help employees and managers better understand the organisation's reward proposition
• Championing fairness, transparency and inclusion across all aspects of reward
• Ensuring reward practices remain compliant with relevant legislation, governance requirements and industry best practice

The successful candidate will bring:

• Previous experience within Reward, Compensation & Benefits or Total Rewards
• Strong knowledge of salary benchmarking, reward frameworks and job evaluation methodologies
• Advanced analytical capability, including experience using Excel for modelling and data analysis
• Experience managing stakeholders across a complex organisation
• Strong project management and organisational skills
• The ability to translate data into meaningful business insights and recommendations
• Experience using reward and HR systems, with Workday experience advantageous
• Excellent communication skills and the confidence to influence senior stakeholders
• CIPD qualification or equivalent experience would be beneficial

Why join?

This role offers the opportunity to join a highly respected organisation where reward is viewed as a genuine strategic enabler of business success. You will benefit from:

• Exposure to a broad and varied reward remit
• The opportunity to influence reward strategy and future programme development
• Close collaboration with senior business and HR stakeholders
• A supportive and inclusive culture that values development and progression
• A flexible and collaborative working environment
• Excellent long-term career opportunities within a large and well-established organisation

This opportunity would suit an established Reward Analyst or Senior Reward Analyst looking to take the next step into a broader management role, or an experienced Reward Manager seeking a highly visible position within a respected and people-focused organisation.

For a confidential discussion or further information, please contact Kate Headford at Frazer Jones.