Reward Manager

Community Integrated Care; Widnes; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retail discounts

Holiday discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Travel discounts

Job summary

Community Integrated Care is seeking an experienced Reward Manager on a 12-18 month fixed-term basis to shape our reward strategy, pay frameworks and colleague benefits. This role will influence reward at scale within one of the UK's largest social care charities, attracting and retaining a dedicated workforce.

Based near Widnes, you will lead annual pay reviews, benchmark against the market and partner with Finance to model pay scenarios while enhancing our benefits.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a Reward, Compensation & Benefits or Pay & Reward role.
• Strong experience developing and managing pay frameworks.
• Excellent analytical and data interpretation skills.
• Experience leading annual pay review processes and salary benchmarking exercises.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders through evidence-based recommendations.
• Strong commercial awareness and balancing fairness with affordability.
• Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills.
• A passion for fairness, transparency and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continually improve reward offering to ensure fairness and commercial sustainability.
• Own annual pay review process from planning through delivery.
• Maintain and develop pay frameworks and structures.
• Deliver reward analytics, insights and recommendations for strategic decisions.
• Own salary benchmarking and market analysis activities.
• Partner with Finance to model pay scenarios for Executive decisions.
• Manage and enhance colleague benefits and reward schemes.
• Provide expert reward advice to leaders and People Team colleagues.
• Ensure reward practices comply with legislation and governance.

Skills

Reward specialist

Stakeholder mgmt

Pay frameworks

Data analytics

Salary benchmarking

Job description

At Community Integrated Care, we believe that rewarding our colleagues fairly isn't just good practice, it's fundamental to delivering outstanding care and support.

We're looking for an experienced Reward Manager to join us on a 12-18 month fixed-term basis and play a leading role in shaping our reward strategy, pay frameworks and colleague benefits offer.

This is a unique opportunity to influence reward at scale within one of the UK's largest and most successful social care charities, helping us attract, retain and recognise the amazing people who make a difference every day.

You’ll also contribute to our award-winning Unfair To Care campaign, using data and insight to help drive positive change across the social care sector.

This is a 12-18 month fixed term contract with attendance at our head office in Widnes required at least once a week so our ideal candidate will be based within an hours commute of Widnes.

What is The Deal for you?

• Flexibility! You can work your full-time hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend or work over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments.
• Benefits: Retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app.
• Best Lives Possible: You'll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives bolder
• Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
• Dare to Learn: Access to our amazing online training platform where you can upskill taking a variety of courses and qualifications.
• Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life.

As our Reward Manager, you'll lead and continually improve our reward offering, ensuring it remains fair, transparent, commercially sustainable and aligned with our organisational values.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading the annual pay review process from planning through to delivery.
• Maintaining and developing pay frameworks and structures.
• Delivering meaningful reward analytics, insights and recommendations that support strategic decision-making.
• Owning salary benchmarking and market analysis activities.
• Partnering with Finance to model pay scenarios and support Executive Team decision-making.
• Managing and enhancing colleague benefits and reward schemes.
• Providing expert reward advice to leaders, managers and People Team colleagues.
• Ensuring reward practices remain compliant with legislation, governance requirements and best practice
• Leading reward-related projects that improve processes, systems and colleague experience.

What we’re looking for:

You’ll be a credible reward professional who combines technical expertise with strong stakeholder management skills.

You’ll bring:

• Significant experience in a Reward, Compensation & Benefits or Pay & Reward role
• Strong experience developing and managing pay frameworks
• Excellent analytical and data interpretation skills
• Experience leading annual pay review processes and salary benchmarking exercises
• The ability to influence senior stakeholders through evidence-based recommendations
• Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of balancing fairness with affordability
• Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills
• A passion for fairness, transparency and continuous improvement

Experience within social care, healthcare, charity or public sector environments would be advantageous, but is not essential.

Why Join Community Integrated Care?

We're one of the UK's most successful social care charities, recognised nationally for innovation, colleague engagement and sector-leading practice.

When you join us, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Influence reward strategy across a large national organisation.
• Support a sector-leading campaign advocating for fair pay in social care.
• Work alongside passionate and values-driven colleagues.
• Deliver meaningful change that impacts thousands of employees.
• Be part of an organisation committed to doing the right thing for its people.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you're passionate about reward, data-driven decision-making and creating fair and transparent pay practices, we'd love to hear from you.

Community Integrated Care is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities.

Interested and want to know a bit more?

To find out more about our charity check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zYkoj7x8s

We’re really proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, a recognition that confirms our commitment to creating a culture where our colleagues are not only encouraged to share their thoughts, but where this feedback is actively sought and acted upon to drive positive change at every level.

In our 2025 Colleague Engagement Survey, 59% (nearly 3,800) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +34.

The Employee Net Promoter Score is a measure of how willing our colleagues are to recommend us as a good place to work to their loved ones – and a score of +34 is considered a Very Good score when compared to global benchmarks set by hundreds of other organisations.