Reward Partner

Location: London Victoria (hybrid model, minimum 3 days in office).

Nord Anglia Education – the world’s leading private school’s organisation is recruiting a Reward Partner. You will be joining the HR team in our London HQ. London is our global headquarters where 200 colleagues across Finance, Risk, Corporate Development, Legal, HR, MAC and Education drive the success of our 80+ schools in 30+ countries. By joining our fast paced and innovative organisation, you will be regularly liaising with our global team-mates from the Philippines to Peru, from Beijing to Boston and beyond.

If you have a global mindset, enjoy thinking outside the box and are prepared to go above and beyond to find solutions, then a career at Nord Anglia is for you.

The Reward Partner will be a senior reward specialist and strategic business partner supporting the Senior Group Reward Manager in the design, delivery and continuous evolution of the organisation’s reward and benefits strategy. The role operates as a trusted advisor, providing expert reward guidance across compensation, benefits, incentives, and recognition. The Reward Partner leads operational delivery across assigned project deliverables, ensuring market competitiveness, cost discipline, strong governance and an excellent employee experience.

The role: As Reward Partner your focus will be to:

• Act as a Reward Partner to the business, providing expert advice on reward philosophy, pay practices, benefits and governance.
• Support the Senior Group Reward Manager in the execution of reward strategy, policies and frameworks.
• Provide pragmatic, value-focused reward solutions aligned to business strategy and financial discipline.
• Support the Senior Group Reward Manager in the design, renewal and implementation of benefit programmes across multiple countries.
• Manage day-to-day relationships with brokers, consultants and benefit providers, ensuring strong service delivery and governance.
• Support benefits benchmarking, cost analysis and trend reporting to inform strategy and investment decisions.
• Partner with HR Operations and Payroll to ensure accurate and compliant administration of all UK benefits programmes.
• Support market pricing and benchmarking activity to ensure pay frameworks remain competitive, equitable and aligned to pay philosophy.
• Provide decision support and analysis for GCS colleagues and Principals hiring and offer calibration, critical talent pay positioning, pay equity and pay transparency initiatives, exceptional pay and retention cases.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition team to ensure market-competitive, fair and consistent offers.
• Produce high-quality reward analytics, modelling and insight to support executive and governance decision-making.
• Leverage HR and Reward dashboards to provide business insight and decision support.
• Prepare executive-ready papers, modelling and recommendations for senior stakeholders.

The Successful Candidate will possess:

• Extensive experience in Reward, Compensation & Benefits within a complex, multinational organisation.
• Deep technical expertise across compensation frameworks and market pricing, salary and incentive cycles, executive and senior reward, global benefits design and governance desirables.
• Proven experience managing benefits across multiple countries and regulatory environments.
• Experience operating in a matrix, high-growth or transformation environment advantageous.
• Familiarity with job evaluation methodologies desirable.
• Strong Excel and data interpretation skills (Power Query / Power Pivot advantageous).
• Experience with HRIS, compensation tools and/or analytics dashboards (e.g., Power BI).
• Highly data-driven with the ability to translate complexity into executive insight.
• Ability to simplify complex datasets into meaningful insights for non-technical audiences.
• Detail-oriented, analytical, organised, and dependable.
• Able to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Curious, solutions-focused and continuous improvement mindset.

About Us: Nord Anglia Education is the world’s leading international schools organisation. Our 80+ international schools are located in the Americas, Europe, China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Together, they educate more than 90,000 students from kindergarten through to the end of secondary education. We are driven by one unifying philosophy: we are ambitious for our students, our people and our family of schools.

Our exclusive collaborations with prestigious institutions such as UNICEF, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), IMG Academy and the world-leading performing arts school Juilliard mean we’re at the forefront of educational thinking, while creating life-changing experiences for students. By joining Nord Anglia Education you will become part of a committed and innovative team. As a member of the world’s leading premium schools group you will be joining an active network of like-minded people across the world.

We encourage individuals to join us with our “Create your Future” mindset – we will provide you with a range of experiences and opportunities to enhance your skillset and you will be given the autonomy to grow your career.

To Apply: On-line applications need to be directly through the Nord Anglia Education careers page and should include a CV. At Nord Anglia Education, we are an equal opportunities employer dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. In our schools and offices around the world, we treat all colleagues fairly based on their skills and qualifications, without discrimination. We value individuals from all backgrounds, including those with different abilities and neurodivergent conditions, as well as those who identify with protected characteristics. Nord Anglia Education is committed to ensuring the highest possible safeguarding standards in our schools and we expect every employee to share this commitment.