Reward & Workforce Planning Partner

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. Diseases such as cancer, dementia, diabetes, and heart disease continue to impact individuals, families, and communities. 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. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry, and we work closely with the NHS and public authorities across the UK.

What you’ll be doing: In this role, you will partner closely with the Head of Talent, Finance, and senior stakeholders to ensure we make consistent, fair, and data‑led decisions on pay, progression, and workforce planning. Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Reward & Progression
  • 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 including 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 to ensure alignment with reward strategy, organisational needs, and market practice.
  • Own the annual Gender Pay Gap reporting process ensuring Our Future Health complies with guidelines and timings.
• Workforce Planning & Headcount
  • 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.
• Data, Insight & Organisational Effectiveness
  • 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.

Ideally, the successful candidate will bring experience across reward and/or workforce planning in a complex organisation. To succeed in this role, you will also have some of the following skills:

• 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‑focused, 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 judgment to navigate ambiguity and complexity.

Benefits

• From £65,000 per annum basic salary.
• Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
• 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays – Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.
• Enhanced Parental Leave – Supporting you during life’s biggest moments.
• Cycle to Work Scheme – Save 25‑39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.
• Home & Tech Savings – Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice.
• £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus – Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
• Wellbeing Support – Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
• A Great Place to Work – We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.

Join us – let’s prevent disease together.

Closing date 26/05/2026 at 5:00 pm. We may close this vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if we receive a high volume of applications, 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 their application process. If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at talent@ourfuturehealth.org.uk.