Reward & Workforce Planning Partner in London

We're looking for a new Reward & Workforce Planning Partner to join our Talent team. This is an exciting opportunity to redefine how we approach progression, development, and workforce planning as we scale. This is a high‐impact role for someone who isn't afraid to do things differently, is passionate about development, and brings bold ideas that shape how we make people decisions.

Despite significant advances in healthcare, millions of people in the UK still experience poor health as they age. Our goal is to create a world‐leading resource for health research, helping researchers better understand how and why diseases develop so they can be detected earlier, prevented, and treated more effectively. Our Future Health will be the UK's largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new approaches to detecting, preventing and treating disease.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the Head of Talent, Finance and senior stakeholders to ensure consistent, fair and data‐led decisions on pay, progression and workforce planning.
• Support the implementation and evolution of reward frameworks, ensuring alignment with organisational principles and external positioning.
• Support the development and ongoing refinement of the Reward policy, including structures, benchmarking and job levelling.
• Lead the operational delivery of reward activities, including salary reviews and promotion cycles; end‐to‐end project management and ownership of third‐party relationships for our HRIS system set‐up.
• Provide guidance and support to People Partners and managers on reward, ensuring consistency and fairness.
• Contribute to the development and documentation of reward policies and processes.
• Review and evaluate the benefits offering in partnership with the People Experience team, providing insight and recommendations to People & Culture Leadership.
• Own the annual Gender Pay Gap reporting process to ensure compliance with guidelines and timings.
• Support workforce planning processes in partnership with Finance and senior stakeholders.
• Build and maintain headcount and workforce planning models to support scenario planning.
• Ensure accurate and aligned headcount reporting across systems.
• Provide insight to inform hiring prioritisation and resource allocation.
• Translate people data into clear, actionable insight for Talent, People Partners and leadership.
• Develop and maintain reporting across reward and workforce planning.
• Identify trends, risks and opportunities and proactively raise these.
• Support organisational design, succession planning, progression pathways and role architecture.

Qualifications

• Proven experience independently delivering reward or workforce planning processes end‐to‐end within a complex organisation.
• Strong understanding of reward, benchmarking and pay frameworks.
• Experience supporting workforce planning, headcount management or organisational design processes.
• Ability to translate data into insight and clear recommendations.
• Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and influencing decision‐making.
• Pragmatic and solutions‐focused, able to operate within defined frameworks while improving them over time.
• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to see the bigger organisational picture.
• Collaborative and relationship‐focussed, with a partnership mindset.
• Able to balance data, equity and business need in decision‐making.
• Able to operate with minimal supervision, bringing prior experience and judgement to navigate ambiguity and complexity.

Benefits

• From £65,000 per annum basic salary.
• Generous Pension Scheme – employer contributions up to 12%.
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays – flexible holiday allowance.
• Enhanced parental leave – supporting life's biggest moments.
• Cycle to Work Scheme – save 25‐39% on a new bike and accessories via salary sacrifice.
• Home & Tech Savings – up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spread over 12 months via salary sacrifice.
• £1,000 employee referral bonus.
• Wellbeing support – access to Mental Health First Aiders, 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
• A great place to work – lovely Central London office in Holborn with flexible and remote working arrangements.

Closing date 26/05/2026 at 5:00 pm. We may close this vacancy earlier, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity or long‐term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of the application process.