Reward Analyst / Reward Manager

Professional Services Company; Manchester; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Broadgate is building its in-house reward function and seeks an experienced reward professional at Analyst or Manager level. The role is fully remote, ideally based within reach of Manchester, and offers the chance to shape a new function amid an active M&A pipeline.

You will lead benchmarking, pay design, and job evaluation activities, while modelling LTIP outcomes and Total Reward Statements. Expect data-led work, independent project ownership and strong stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on reward experience, particularly in benchmarking, job evaluation and grading.
• A track record of turning market data into clear pay recommendations.
• LTIP and Total Reward Statement experience.
• Advanced Excel (lookups, pivots, modelling) and confidence working with large datasets.
• Comfort working independently and owning data-led projects end to end.

Responsibilities

• Pay benchmarking: matching roles to salary surveys and market data, owning annual survey submissions, and recommending salary ranges
• Designing and running the pay review process, including bonus modelling, budget tracking and data checks
• Supporting job evaluation and grading, applied consistently and with clear records
• Analysing the reward implications of acquired businesses: due diligence, mapping roles to the grading structure, and pay harmonisation proposals
• Internal pay relativities, gender pay gap reporting and equal pay audits
• Modelling LTIP outturns and building Total Reward Statements

Skills

Benchmarking

Job evaluation

Grading

Data analysis

Independent working

Excel modelling

Tools

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Job description

I’m working with a mid-tier professional services firm that is building its in-house reward function for the first time. They’re looking for an experienced reward professional to help shape it from the ground up, and they’re open to hiring at either Analyst or Manager level depending on experience.

The role is fully remote, but they’d ideally like someone based within reach of Manchester.

The opportunity

This is a newly created role. The firm’s ongoing M&A activity means there’s plenty of meaty reward analysis to get stuck into, and over time you’ll take ownership of the firm’s reward structures and systems. You’ll have the support and runway to build things properly rather than inheriting a backlog.

What you’ll be doing

• Pay benchmarking: matching roles to salary surveys and market data, owning annual survey submissions, and recommending salary ranges
• Designing and running the pay review process, including bonus modelling, budget tracking and data checks
• Supporting job evaluation and grading, applied consistently and with clear records
• Analysing the reward implications of acquired businesses: due diligence, mapping roles to the grading structure, and pay harmonisation proposals
• Internal pay relativities, gender pay gap reporting and equal pay audits
• Modelling LTIP outturns and building Total Reward Statements

What you’ll bring

• Significant hands-on reward experience, particularly in benchmarking, job evaluation and grading
• A track record of turning market data into clear pay recommendations
• LTIP and Total Reward Statement experience
• Advanced Excel (lookups, pivots, modelling) and confidence working with large datasets
• Comfort working independently and owning data-led projects end to end

Nice to have

• Power BI, especially experience replacing Excel-based reporting
• An interest in, or knowledge of, AI in reward and analytics
• Reward experience on mergers or acquisitions
• Working knowledge of UK pay legislation

Why apply?

• A rare chance to build a reward function, not just maintain one
• Genuine variety, driven by an active acquisition pipeline
• Fully remote, with the autonomy to shape how reward is done