Reward Manager (Benefits, Pensions and Recognition) in London

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a Reward Manager to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first and to deliver against our strategic objectives.

Our Reward Framework supports our ambition to attract and develop the right skills, capabilities, and behaviours that we need as an organisation to realise our organisational vision and attract/retain the talent we need. The Reward Manager of this role will further shape the colleague offering in this space, whilst ensuring we maintain, embed and govern the existing framework – recognising the significant cost & importance of these reward elements to the organisation.

The Reward Manager will play a pivotal role in ensuring our Reward offering is competitive and equitable across the organisation, ensuring colleagues feel fairly rewarded for their role and contributions.

Every day you will …

• You’ll sit at the heart of People team, in the performance and talent team. Working in collaboration with colleagues from across the people team as well as business leads, you’ll co-create solutions that build capability and high performance.
• You will work with the Finance and Procurement teams to support the procurement, contracting and tracking of suppliers and their services.
• Develop and present proposals for enhancements to our benefits, pension and recognition offering, based on market insights and strategic requirements of the organisation. Provide thorough analysis, costings, options, interdependencies, recommendations, and implementation plans.
• Own and project manage the cyclical recognition, flexible benefit and pensions enrolment/assurance processes end-to-end. From initial budget proposals, through to colleague tools & communications; and hand-offs for payroll implementation. Responsible for designing and implementing the full cycle, with resource support from the rest of the team.
• Regularly review external market practice, bringing new ideas and benchmarking to our internal practice. Expand best practice knowledge within the Directorate.
• Bring a depth of experience and specialism to the Reward Team on all aspects of Benefits, Pensions & Recognition – in order to advise senior stakeholders on the application, delivery and governance of these reward elements.
• Own, create and roll-out meaningful & engaging Reward communication campaigns for all annual reward activities and adhoc updates, partnering closely with the wider reward team and colleagues across the Directorate to ensure communications are effective, timely and joined up across wider People Team activities.
• Design, own and implement robust governance processes for all Reward activities, ensuring equity of application across the business and spend within agreed budget. Provide regular insights and analytics to key stakeholders to demonstrate governance and effectiveness of reward activity.
• Own the relationship with third party providers; ensuring colleagues receive a good standard of service and provider spend remains within budget. Own the provider re-contracting and budgeting process, staying close to market developments to inform future provider choices.
• Manage the day-to-day application and governance of key reward policies, recommending changes as required to the Head of Reward and People Executive Director.

What can we offer you?

We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
• We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards.
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%).
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.