Overview
In this role, you will own an enterprise-wide colleague incentive scheme, ensuring accurate data, governance, and timely delivery. You will work across Operations, Finance, Data, IT and People to steer the scheme’s evolution in line with business priorities. You’ll bring structure to a complex environment, drive accountability, and lead the monthly delivery cycle. You will partner with senior leaders to identify issues, improve data quality, and design a roadmap for ongoing improvements. This is a high-visibility, impact-driven opportunity to shape how performance and engagement are rewarded.
Pay / Benefits
- Annual bonus up to 30%
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Private healthcare
- Income protection 75% of basic salary
- Flexible benefits allowance 5%
- Pension with up to 10% employer contribution
Responsibilities
- End-to-end ownership of the incentive scheme from data inputs to final payments
- Lead monthly operational delivery cycle for accuracy and timeliness
- Identify, investigate and resolve issues impacting delivery, consistency or accuracy
- Collaborate with operations, finance, data and technology to improve data quality and process effectiveness
- Establish and embed governance, controls and validation processes
- Manage risks, dependencies and stakeholder accountabilities across functions
- Provide insight into scheme performance, trends and improvement opportunities
- Deliver tactical improvements to reduce risk and improve reliability
- Develop a longer-term roadmap for future enhancement of the scheme
Key requirements
- Product ownership, business process ownership or operational leadership
- Managing complex cross-functional processes with multiple stakeholders
- Working with data-driven processes and interconnected systems
- Driving governance, controls, compliance and operational improvements
- Leading delivery in matrix environments with influence across teams
- Managing risks, dependencies and operational performance
- Identifying root causes and implementing sustainable solutions
- Influencing senior stakeholders to achieve outcomes
- Using data and insight to support decision-making and continuous improvement
- Delivering change and process transformation within large organisations
- Influencing senior stakeholders
- Clear communication and leadership
- Ability to bring clarity to complexity
- Data analysis
- Governance and controls
- Process improvement
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