Regional Senior Reward Manager UK&I

Reporting to: Global Reward Director

Location: In region, requirement to be in the Leicester office 2-3 days per week with less frequent travel to London.

Role Purpose:

Support the effective implementation of the Hays’ global reward strategy across the region, ensuring globally anchored, performance-orientated, affordable, competitive, consistent and simple compensation and benefit practices. Implement global frameworks grounded in the Willis Towers Watson (WTW) Global Grading System (GGS) and informed by WTW remuneration, benefits, and market practice survey data.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver the regional reward strategy, ensuring alignment to global principles and standards across both sales and enabling functions.
• Lead the design of sales compensation schemes, applying global guidelines to create frameworks that drive motivation, retention, and achievement.
• Localise global pay structures by utilising Willis Towers Watson (WTW) survey data and adhering to statutory requirements.
• Support the delivery of global annual processes within the region, including base pay reviews, the administration of short- and long-term incentive programmes, and the renewal and enhancement of employee benefits schemes.
• Advise the People & Culture team and business leaders on compensation-related matters such as new hire offers, employee promotions, and organisational restructures.
• Oversee the provision of regional employee benefits and manage vendor relationships, ensuring that offerings remain competitive, cost-effective, and compliant.
• Ensure that all reward practices and policies comply with local legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Manage, develop, and mentor the regional reward team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.

Experience:

• A deep understanding of sales compensation ideally in the recruitment industry.
• Experience of leading a small regional reward team.
• Strong regional reward knowledge and labour market insight.
• Ability to manage stakeholders across multiple countries and/or multiple levels of seniority.
• Expertise in compensation, benefits, and reward governance.
• Strong understanding of WTW, or similar, job evaluation and survey methodologies.

Skills and Competencies:

• Able to effectively manage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Analytical Agility - financial modelling and data interpretation skills to forecast the impact of complex incentive designs.
• Ability to act as a trusted advisor, navigating sensitive and high-profile situations with complete discretion and confidentiality.
• Commercially astute and able to align reward design with business performance and company culture.
• Pragmatic: able to deliver guidance in a fast-paced, complex environment.
• Communicates clearly and openly to win support and challenge the business.
• Highly organised, can work under pressure and to deadlines.
• Demonstrates behaviours that support and reflect the Hays valued behaviours.
• Collaborative with a good appreciation of both global and local needs.
• Good attention to detail.
• Ability to spot issues and identify solutions independently before they become a blocker.
• Resilient.

At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture of opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career.