Reward & Mobility Manager

Ogilvy inspires brands and people to impact the world. We create big ideas that make a significant contribution to the planet, society, and the bottom line. We believe this is the best way for our clients to achieve sustainable growth. We achieve this by breaking down the barriers that restrict talent and ideas – we call this Borderless Creativity. Our teams work fluidly across 5 capabilities: Advertising, Consulting, Experience, PR and I, and Health, allowing us to innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent. Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep cultural expertise of 132 offices in 83 countries.

About the Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Ogilvy as our UK Reward & Mobility Manager. In this newly created role, you will be a key strategic partner to People Partners, Talent Acquisition, Business Leaders, and Finance. You will be instrumental in shaping and driving the UK reward strategy, ensuring alignment with Ogilvy's global vision and business objectives. You will be responsible for designing and implementing innovative programs that attract, retain, and motivate top talent, while fostering a culture of performance and inclusivity. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract, offering a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in building our growing Reward & Mobility team and contributing to Ogilvy's long-term success.

What You'll Do

• Lead the implementation and ongoing management of the global job architecture within the UK, ensuring consistent job levelling.
• Facilitate mobility requests for remote working, cross-market hires, and permanent moves to and from the UK.
• Lead the annual compensation benchmarking process.
• Develop salary ranges and educate UK Leaders and HR on how to use ranges to make pay recommendations.
• Lead the semi-annual salary and annual bonus review processes, partnering with and presenting overall costs and executive pay recommendations to UK C-suite leaders.
• Manage UK benefits enrolment, administration, and communication.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to define end-to-end processes for job levelling and creating internally aligned and externally competitive pay packages.
• Develop processes to manage and maintain executive compensation data not captured in Workday.
• Review the current approach to allowance and incentive plan eligibility and recommend a strategy to adjust where needed.
• Maintain the compliance of the pay governance processes for the UK.
• Provide ad-hoc reward reporting and analysis as needed.
• Partner with UK People Operations, Workday, and Payroll to build additional reporting and data accuracy processes for Reward functions supported by Workday.
• Participate in the regional, Global, and WPP Reward Communities, sharing best practices and leaning into Global Programmes and Projects.
• Design and administer local recognition schemes.

What You'll Need

• You enjoy working in a fast-moving and agile setting.
• Excellent attention to detail with strong written communication skills.
• Strong partnering and relationship-building skills.
• Desire to improve processes and define new approaches.
• Experience in UK reward and mobility with a global mindset.
• Ability to communicate complexity in simple terms.
• Advanced Excel and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of Power BI is a plus.
• Strong organisational abilities.
• Experience with job evaluation, benchmarking, market pricing, and building salary structures.
• Knowledge of gender pay gap reporting.
• Experience leading annual/semi-annual salary and bonus review processes.
• Experience partnering with third parties is a plus.
• Confident in data analysis for reports such as paying for performance.
• Ability to work with senior stakeholders.
• Workday experience is a plus.

At Ogilvy, we want to make sure that you’re set up to grow and develop in your role and enjoy some of the best times of your working career. Our learning and development team are on hand to provide training for you, to help you excel in every aspect of your role. So, if you think you may not have experience in some aspects of this position, don’t worry, and apply away. We’re here to help you grow and nurture your skills.

We’re dedicated to our people and provide additional perks to help support your work-life balance and help you thrive:

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
• Bupa Healthcare (includes Bupa health assessment and menopause support)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption, and Shared Parental leave
• Flexible working policy with core working hours (10 am – 4 pm) and our 3.2 Hybrid Working model (3 days in the office, 2 days at home)
• A 1.5:1 matching pension structure
• Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership plus Dental cover, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool, and annual eye tests.
• Learning and development budgets plus Enhanced and ongoing wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
• Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance x4 salary

To foster an inclusive environment, we have our internal groups: Ogilvy Rewired, Roots, Equals, Proud plus Parents and Carers. Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us. We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible. We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments. If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.