At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead benefits and wellbeing strategy across Europe, ensuring competitive and compliant programmes.
- Company: Join a diverse and inclusive team at The Bicester Collection.
- Benefits: Flexible working, career development, and wellbeing-focused benefits.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with opportunities for growth and collaboration.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on employee experience while advancing your career in rewards.
- Qualifications: 7-10+ years in rewards with strong benefits and compensation expertise.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Supporting our 9 European Villages, our central People team is hiring a Senior Reward Manager.
The role
As part of the Reward team, you will lead the Benefits and Wellbeing across our 9 UK and European villages. The role ensures programmes are competitive, compliant and aligned to a strong employee experience focus. It also offers a clear pathway into a broader rewards role, with increasing exposure to compensation. Ideal for a benefits specialist looking to expand their scope, the role supports progression into a more integrated, end-to-end reward remit over time.
Location: Bicester Village (Hybrid and Min 2 days a week in office)
What you'll be doing
- Own and lead the end to end benefits and wellbeing strategy across Europe, ensuring programmes are competitive, compliant and aligned to the employee value proposition.
- Act as a centre of excellence for benefits, providing senior guidance to HR and building strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders across the business.
- Manage key vendor and broker partnerships, ensuring strong governance, cost effectiveness and high-quality service delivery.
- Deliver reward insights, analysis and projects, driving data‑led decision making, continuous improvement and broader transformation initiatives.
- Contribute to the overall reward strategy, bringing benefits expertise alongside growing compensation accountability, while ensuring robust governance, risk management and compliance.
What we're looking for
- Proven Senior Reward professional (7–10+ years) with strong expertise across both benefits and compensation, ideally within a multi-country European environment.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate autonomously in complex, fast-paced organisations.
- Solid experience in key compensation areas including job evaluation, pay structures, benchmarking and annual review cycles.
- Strong commercial and analytical capability, with advanced Excel skills and experience managing external partners (e.g. brokers, vendors, survey providers).
- Excellent communicator with sound judgement, able to translate complex reward concepts into clear, employee‑centric solutions.
What we offer
A warm welcome, the chance to build an ever‑evolving career story, and benefits designed around your lifestyle, physical, mental and social wellbeing.
Our commitment
We're proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer — and we mean it. The best ideas come from people who don't all think the same, and we welcome applications from every background. Come as you are.
The Bicester Collection exists to be experienced in the real world. To be actual, not virtual. To be lived. We'll never stop evolving. Are you ready for the challenge?
Senior Reward Manager in Bicester employer: The Bicester Village Shopping Collection
The Bicester Village Shopping Collection is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration in the luxury travel sector. With a focus on employee growth, we provide ample opportunities for professional development and the chance to lead impactful projects across Europe, all while enjoying the flexibility of a hybrid working model. Join us to be part of a passionate team dedicated to creating unforgettable destination experiences in a vibrant and supportive environment.
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The Bicester Village Shopping Collection Recruitment Team
