Reward Manager (Compensation & Benefits)

The Reward Manager will play a key role in shaping, delivering, and continuously improving the firm’s compensation and benefits framework across the UK and our international locations. The role focuses on ensuring the firm’s reward programmes are competitive, compliant, and aligned with business strategy, culture, and regulatory requirements in the financial services sector. The successful candidate will help develop competitive and innovative reward strategies to attract, retain and motivate top talent at Jupiter.

Key Responsibilities

• Compensation: Contribute to the design and implementation of the annual compensation planning process, including salary reviews and bonus calculations. Support related modelling, insights, governance, and communications. Provide expert advice to HRBPs, TA Manage and business leaders on pay proposals, market positioning, and internal equity. Review and disseminate reward related market intelligence, trends and best practice across the local. Support the design, review, and implementation of short‑ and long‑term incentive plans.
• Benefits: Manage the full benefits portfolio, ensuring competitiveness and value for money. Own relationships with benefits brokers and providers, negotiating renewals and monitoring service performance. Drive benefit renewals, enrolment processes, and policy updates. Oversee administration and compliance of pension schemes, including auto‑enrolment requirements. Review and assess new benefit opportunities to support employee wellbeing and retention.
• Reward Governance & Compliance: Support the Reward governance framework, including RemCo preparation and regulatory reporting. Lead on pay equity analysis and gender pay reporting. Support the Head of Reward in ensuring remuneration practices comply with financial services regulations and internal policies. Support the preparation of the annual remuneration policy statements and year-end regulatory submissions. Maintain strong documentation, audit trails, and data accuracy across all reward systems and processes.
• Data, Analytics & Systems: Deliver high‑quality reward analytics and insights to senior stakeholders. Lead the continuous improvement of reward processes, tools, and data management. Knowledge of UK listed company reporting and experience in preparation of data in relation to the Directors Remuneration Report is beneficial.
• Projects & Continuous Improvement: Contribute to firm‑wide reward strategy projects. Support M&A, integration, or organisational change activities from a reward perspective. Champion digitalisation, simplification, and employee experience across reward processes.

Desired Skills / Experience

• Strong experience in compensation and benefits within the UK; financial services experience strongly preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of compensation principles, methodologies and best practice.
• Demonstrated experience managing annual reward cycles and benefits programmes.
• Highly numerate, strong analytical skills with the ability to collect and interpret complex data and market.
• Ability to simplify complexity into clear insights and recommendations.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal), collaboration and interpersonal skills to be able to engage with stakeholders at all levels.

This role is subject to the Conduct Rules set by the FCA.

Our high-conviction investment approach is fundamental to the way we think, and the way we work. We all understand how we can positively impact our clients. We are team players and success is only possible if we work together. We respect and celebrate different perspectives, and experiences. We are tenacious and create an environment where everyone can do meaningful work for clients, for our business, and for the world around us. We are agile, brave, and work fast. We take accountability and always look for ways to drive greater value for our clients. That means continuously improving and seeking to innovate. We embrace change and challenge convention. We are proud of our journey so far and continually try to find better ways to work and share lessons learnt so that we can be even stronger tomorrow. At Jupiter, we unlock your potential so our clients can achieve theirs.