Global Reward Expert (FTC)

PA Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

PA Consulting, following its acquisition by Jacobs, is seeking a Global Reward Expert for a 12-month fixed-term contract. You will lead integration reward projects across the UK and US, including redesigned partner incentives and aligning PA benefits with Jacobs.

You will partner with PA and Jacobs senior leaders, manage relationships with external partners, and ensure delivery of compensation and benefits initiatives across our global operations.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a global professional services firm or similar.
• A strong compensation and benefits professional with multi-market experience and incentive design for senior professionals (likely 10+ years).
• Attention to detail, deadline-driven with strong project management skills including team organisation.
• High integrity, EQ and discretion.
• Experience of integrations would be advantageous but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the PA CPO and Jacobs Global Head of Reward to deliver reward integration projects.
• Collaborate with PA reward team and support their work when needed.
• Partner with senior PA and Jacobs stakeholders to design and implement reward projects.

Skills

Global rewards experience

Incentive design

Stakeholder management

Project management

Data analytics

Integrity & discretion

Job description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

• Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week.
• This role is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract

In March 2026, Jacobs Engineering acquired PA Consulting with the aim of building a global professional services powerhouse. As part of this integration, we are now bringing together our approach to reward and benefits to ensure our people are incentivised to deliver our combined strategy.

The Global Reward Expert will be accountable for the delivery of a number of significant integration reward projects over a 12-month period including;

1) Implementation of a redesigned Partner incentive approach.

2) Integration of PA’s benefits offering with our parent company, Jacobs, in both the UK and the US.

This individual should be an experienced reward professional with a good understanding of compensation and benefits and experience of designing incentive schemes for senior professionals. This individual will build and foster relationships with key senior internal stakeholders, external partners and provide expert input and project management capability to successfully deliver a range of compensation and benefits projects across our global operations. The role will sit alongside PA and Jacobs global reward teams and may be required to support a number of ‘business as usual’ processes where additional capacity is required.

In this role, you will:

• Work closely with the PA CPO and Jacobs Global Head of Reward to deliver a number of reward projects related to the integration of PA and Jacobs.
• Work alongside a high performing PA reward team, leaning in to support their work when needed.
• Partner well with senior stakeholders across PA and Jacobs to design and successfully implement a range of reward related integration projects.

You will love this job if:

• You have an analytical mindset and love data - gathering and interpreting it to drive strategy.
• You are fascinated by reward in the broadest sense and how it can be used to deliver strategy and drive performance.
• You thrive in an exciting, fast paced environment as part of a growth organisation undergoing frequent change and development.
• You are a natural problem-solver who can make recommendations at pace and communicate clearly to establish credibility, competence, and confidence with key internal stakeholders.
• You are self-driven and constantly striving to improve your own performance and the performance of your team.
• You have a high comfort level with ambiguity, able to navigate different opinions with ease.
• You are a structured thinker and a strong project manager who delivers to deadlines

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a global professional services firm or similar
• A strong compensation and benefits professional, who has experience in multiple markets and jurisdictions and experience of the design and implementation of incentive schemes for senior professionals. You are likely to have a minimum of 10 years of experience working in this field.
• Exceptional attention to detail, deadline driven and works well under pressure, with strong structured project management skills, including organising the work of a team
• High level of integrity, EQ and discretion
• Experience of integrations would be advantageous but not essential

Additional Information

Life at PA

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us at: [e-mail]