Senior Reward Specialist in Corby

Step into a key role shaping how our people are recognised and rewarded. As Senior Reward Specialist, you'll deliver actionable insights, drive reward projects, and provide expert advice to the business. You'll be responsible for reward analysis, statutory reporting, and process improvements—ensuring data integrity, compliance, and a seamless experience for stakeholders. Make an impact, execute on our reward strategy, and help us build fair, competitive, and motivating reward programmes globally.

Responsibilities

• Reward Strategy & Governance: Design and execute reward frameworks, lead key projects, and ensure fairness, competitiveness, and compliance across markets.
• Compensation & Benefits: Support salary and bonus cycles, job evaluation, and benefits programmes; advise on promotions, pay proposals, and job architecture.
• Performance & Incentives: Optimise bonus, sales incentive, and recognition programmes; analyse outcomes to ensure fairness and alignment with business goals.
• Compliance & Risk Management: Maintain governance standards, legal and regulatory compliance, and pay equity reporting.
• Data, Insights & Reporting: Analyse reward data, generate actionable insights, and translate complex information for senior stakeholders.

Benefits and Inclusive Policies

As well as the usual employee benefits you would expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and private healthcare. In the UK&I, we’ve introduced new Individual and Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation.
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome.
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Inclusive benefits and programs that reflect diverse identities and experiences; healthcare coverage includes enhanced support for all individuals, including the diverse needs of trans and non-binary colleagues (e.g., voice coaching, gender affirmation surgery where medically necessary) and resources for all employees regardless of gender identity or expression.
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.

We are RS Group: RS is a global solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers. Our business has operations in three geographical regions — the Americas, EMEA and APAC, supported by global organisations for supply chain, corporate functions, marketing, and product & supplier management. Our market today is large, fragmented, local in nature and digitally immature. Only a few international distributors serve it, with many regional and local providers, who largely trade offline. We stock over 2,500 supplier brands, 500k products and 61% of our sales are digital. We are committed to Making Amazing Happen for a better world and our Vision is to become first choice for customer, suppliers, our people, and communities. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people thrive and recognise that a diverse and representative workforce is critical to our success. Our D&I policy states we recruit and develop employees who are best suited to the job regardless of gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

Qualifications

• Experience in reward/compensation & benefits in a multinational matrix environment.
• Knowledge of reward practices, employment law, and market trends.
• Analytical, data-savvy, and confident with tools (e.g. SAP SuccessFactors).
• Strong communicator and stakeholder influencer.
• Global reward frameworks, multi-country projects, or organisational change experience is desirable.
• Professional reward qualification (CIPD, WorldatWork, GRP) is a plus.
• Experience of working with the Willis Towers Watson job architecture is desirable.