Reward and Compensation Manager in Basingstoke

Location: London or Basingstoke with travel as needed (Hybrid working available, 3 days in the office, 2 days from home).

Berry Bros. & Rudd is more than 325 years old, but we never stand still. As the world’s best and most trusted fine wine and spirits merchant, we are committed to helping our customers drink better, now and in the future. A career at Berry Bros. & Rudd is a unique and rewarding experience, combining the rich background of centuries of history with a modern family‑owned culture, built on ambitious plans and with people at its heart.

The job in a nutshell:

In this role, you’ll lead the reward and compensation strategic agenda across all Business Units, thrive on the opportunity to deliver multiple, tailored business solutions, and utilise your creativity and ability to navigate an evolving culture to deliver a leading‑edge reward strategy. You’ll work in collaboration with the Head of People and Senior People Business Partners to deliver an integrated approach to reward and compensation that ensures competitiveness, equity, enhances employee engagement, and enables an increase in overall Company performance.

Who you will work with:

• Internal: The People Team and all Berry Bros. & Rudd employees
• External: 3rd party brokers, payroll and benefits providers

What you will do:

• Reporting into senior leadership, you will take ownership of the full reward cycle, providing both strategic direction and operational delivery.
• End‑to‑end management of the reward cycle, including annual pay review, bonus and benefits.
• Review and development of reward frameworks, policies and processes.
• Support for the Remuneration Committee – salary benchmarking, job grading and commission.
• Benchmarking and market analysis to support competitive and compliant reward practices.
• Lead the benefits annual review and rebroking activity.
• Prepare and complete the annual Gender Pay Gap Report.
• Issue Annual Total Rewards statements to all colleagues.
• Responsible for the administration of all pension schemes.
• Ownership of initiatives to promote our benefits offering.
• Lead on/or support wellbeing initiatives.

• Oversight and management of payroll, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timely delivery (UK, Asia, France and USA).
• Ensuring reward and payroll practices align with current legislation and best practice.
• Ensure compliance with all statutory payroll and benefits legislation.
• Ensure that timely information is available for the people team related to compensation and reward.
• Create and provide reports and data for in‑house and external parties.
• Success Factors (HRIS) system ownership, overseeing updates and system developments, and ensuring quality of data.

What you will bring to the role:

• Solid and proven relevant experience and track record in Reward.
• Knowledge of Willis Tower Watson and Hays Methodologies will be essential, as well as an understanding of contemporary trends in benefits, pay equity, and incentive design, whilst also the ability to confidently influence decisions at senior levels.
• Strong technical knowledge across compensation, benefits and payroll.
• Demonstrable ability in data manipulation and presentation, including payroll and benefits metrics.

• Highly numerate and will have strong & advanced Excel skills to interrogate data.
• Confident in both written and spoken communication with the ability and confidence to present to large audiences and lead discussion with senior stakeholders.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Excellent technology savviness and openness to using and learning new tools.
• Ability to work independently.
• A straightforward delivery approach, aptitude to see challenging projects through completion with proven ability to collaborate well with others.
• Self‑starter, proactive attitude with a global mind‑set.
• Passionate about providing a high‑level compensation and reward service to colleagues.
• A proactive team player with strong collaboration skills.
• A high level of attention to detail.
• A commitment to continuous improvement, self‑awareness, curiosity, the ability to embrace change, and resilience.

We support our colleagues with a wide range of benefits you will start with 24 days' holiday, and 3 additional days over the Christmas period and 1 Personal Day, Private Medical cover & Health plan, Life Insurance, Pension, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), generous Employee discount (up to 40% off products), and many more.

Closing Date: 23rd January 2026.

N.B. We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date in the event of an overwhelming response or a change in business priorities.