Global Reward Manager: Strategy, Benchmarking & Incentives

Dentsu International Americas; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Dentsu is seeking a Reward Manager to join the Global Reward team, reporting to the Global Reward Director. You will partner with senior HR leaders across a global matrix to translate strategy into fair, competitive pay practices and drive evidence‑based reward decisions.

You will lead job evaluation, market benchmarking and pay governance, support pay equity initiatives, and coordinate annual salary and incentive reviews with cross‑functional colleagues.

Qualifications

• Strong compensation and reward experience in medium‑to‑large organisations.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders within complex, international and matrix organisations.
• Sound understanding of annual salary and incentive review cycles, market benchmarking, remuneration analysis, pay governance and budget planning.
• Strong technical expertise in compensation management, job evaluation and job architecture, with the ability to apply frameworks pragmatically to complex situations.
• Experience in short‑term incentive plan design and management is desirable.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, including data analysis, financial modelling and executive‑level presentations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the credibility to influence, constructively challenge and build alignment with senior HR, Finance and business leaders.
• Commercially minded and autonomous with the ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver fair reward solutions.

Responsibilities

• Acting as the trusted reward partner for assigned Global Functions and Global Practices, shaping reward priorities aligned to business strategy, and providing commercially grounded advice on compensation, incentives, job evaluation, organisational design and reward governance.
• Advising, educating and influencing senior leaders and HR stakeholders on the strategic, organisational and behavioural impact of reward decisions, reviewing compensation recommendations and using internal insights and external market intelligence to inform balanced, data‑led decisions and strengthen reward capability across global functions and practices.
• Applying dentsu’s global job architecture and evaluation framework across assigned Global Functions and Global Practices, undertaking complex job evaluations, supporting consistent levelling and escalating precedent‑setting cases through the appropriate governance.
• Leading compensation survey participation and market benchmarking for global functions and practices, analysing internal and external data to inform salary structures, reward frameworks and pay decisions, and developing recommendations that support competitive and equitable salary ranges.
• Supporting pay equity initiatives and emerging pay transparency requirements, ensuring reward practices are compliant and aligned with global policies and governance standards.
• Coordinating and supporting annual salary and incentive reviews for assigned Global Functions and Global Practices, partnering with HR, Finance and Reward colleagues on recommendations, governance and effective delivery.
• Contributing to complex reward projects potentially from planning through to delivery, these may include acquisitions, integrations and organisational transformation, and engaging HR teams, business leaders and senior executives to build understanding and adoption of reward programmes.

Skills

Compensation management

Job evaluation

Reward governance

Excel

PowerPoint

Stakeholder management

Matrix organisations

Market benchmarking

Pay governance

Tools

Workday

Job description

Dentsu is seeking a Reward Manager to join the Global Reward team, reporting to the Global Reward Director. You will partner with senior HR leaders across a global matrix to translate strategy into fair, competitive pay practices and drive evidence‑based reward decisions.

You will lead job evaluation, market benchmarking and pay governance, support pay equity initiatives, and coordinate annual salary and incentive reviews with cross‑functional colleagues.