Reward Director

Vitality; Poole; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus schemes

Pension up to 12% matched

Vitality health insurance

Life assurance

Job summary

Vitality is seeking a Reward & Payroll Director to define and drive the global reward strategy, ensuring alignment across markets and supporting growth. You will own the UK payroll function, lead a lean team, and partner with senior leaders to deliver complex, organisation-wide change.

You will shape reward strategy, governance and employee experience across multiple geographies, leveraging technology and analytics to enable scalable, compliant processes.

Qualifications

• Significant senior-level reward leadership experience in a complex, fast-paced organisation.
• Experience developing and implementing reward strategy across multiple geographies.
• Deep expertise in compensation, incentives, executive remuneration and benefits.
• Strong knowledge of reward technology, benchmarking and people data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Vitality’s global reward strategy aligned with business priorities and People strategy.
• Establish a globally aligned reward framework and scalable operating model across markets.
• Lead transformation of reward and payroll practices through technology, automation and analytics.
• Own design and governance of global salary structures, incentives and benefits including executive remuneration.
• Lead reward activity across acquisitions and change to support market expansion.
• Shape executive decision-making with market intelligence and scenario planning.
• Oversee UK payroll governance, controls, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Strategic global reward

System modernisation

Executive stakeholder influence

Tools

SuccessFactors

WTW

Remchannel

Job description

Team – Reward and Performance

Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality London, Bournemouth or Stockport Office. Full-time hours apply.

We are happy to discuss flexible working!

Top 3 Skills

• Strong experience in strategic global reward leadership
• Experience modernising systems, processes and policies using technology, automation and data
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and navigate complex organisational challenges

What this role is all about

At Vitality, we’re here to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. It’s what makes us different, and it shapes the way we reward, lead and hire.

We’re now looking for a Reward & Payroll Director to set the direction for how we pay, incentivise and look after great people across the world. This is a rare chance to own reward at a business that’s growing fast. You’ll lead our global reward strategy, drive greater alignment across every market, and take accountability for a robust, compliant UK payroll function. You’ll work shoulder to shoulder with senior leaders across Finance and People, lead a lean, high‑performing team, and stay hands‑on where it matters. Big strategy. Real delivery. Genuine impact.

What you'll be doing

• Define and evolve Vitality’s global reward strategy, ensuring reward supports business priorities, organisational performance, growth ambitions and the wider People strategy
• Establish a globally aligned reward framework and scalable operating model, strengthening reward principles, governance and employee experience across multiple markets
• Lead the transformation of reward and payroll practices through improved technology, automation, AI, compensation planning and advanced analytics capability
• Own the design and governance of global salary structures, incentive plans and benefit programmes, including providing expert direction on executive and senior leadership remuneration
• Lead reward activity across acquisitions, integrations and organisational change, including due diligence, reward harmonisation and the development of solutions that support expansion into new markets
• Shape executive decision‑making through market intelligence, sophisticated reward analysis, modelling and scenario planning, balancing employee, commercial, financial and risk considerations
• Lead the strategic approach to fair pay and pay transparency, establishing sustainable frameworks that address local requirements while supporting greater global consistency
• Provide strategic and operational leadership of UK payroll, strengthening governance, controls, compliance and continuous improvement while modernising payroll processes
• Lead annual reward activity including salary reviews, incentive planning and market benchmarking, establishing effective controls and reporting to ensure reward remains equitable, competitive and sustainable
• Build and lead a high‑performing specialist Reward & Payroll team and develop influential partnerships across People, Finance, Legal and senior business leadership to deliver complex organisation‑wide change

What do you need to thrive

• Significant senior-level reward leadership experience within a complex, fast‑paced organisation
• Proven experience developing and implementing reward strategy across multiple geographies
• Deep expertise across compensation, incentives, executive remuneration and benefits
• Strong experience leading major reward transformation, harmonisation and global alignment programmes
• Experience leading payroll, reward operations or closely related employee services, with strong knowledge of payroll governance, controls and compliance
• Proven experience supporting acquisitions, integrations, organisational change or significant business growth
• Strong knowledge of reward technology, market benchmarking and people data platforms such as SuccessFactors, WTW or Remchannel
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate complex reward considerations into effective business decisions
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and navigate complex challenges across multiple markets and business units
• Experience leading a specialist team while remaining actively involved in strategic and complex delivery

So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award‑winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
• Be there for you when you need us
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.