Senior Reward Advisor

ENGINEERINGUK; Dartford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Reward professional to join their high-performing team in Dartford. This exciting role involves supporting diverse reward activities, including salary benchmarking, employee benefits, and policy development. You will play a vital role in maintaining competitive benefits strategies aligned with business goals. If you have a proactive approach and a strong understanding of reward principles, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact on employee experience and contribute to the company’s success.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Reward or HR with a focus on pay and benefits.
• Experience with analytical job evaluation methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice on salary positions and job roles.
• Lead job evaluations and implement new reward policies.

Skills

Reward Management

Compensation Analysis

Salary Benchmarking

Data Analysis

Project Management

Education

Degree in HR or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Willis Towers Watson

PayData

Job description

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Location: Dartford

This is a permanent position, available on a full-time or part-time basis.

This role does not offer sponsorship.

Are you a Reward / HR professional ready for your next challenge?
We are seeking a reward professional to join our high-performing reward team, supporting a large and diverse workforce.

In this role, you will support a variety of reward activities, including salary benchmarking, employee benefits, policy development and more. You will support the team in maintaining and improving our benefits strategies to ensure they remain competitive, compliant, and aligned with business objectives.
An understanding of reward, along with a willingness to learn and a proactive approach, will support your success in this role

About the team

Our reward team is a high-performing and collaborative function within the wider People (HR) team at Laing O'Rourke. We play a critical role in shaping the employee experience by designing and delivering competitive and fair reward strategies that help attract, motivate, and retain top talent across the organisation.

The reward team provides expertise in areas such as compensation benchmarking, benefits, recognition, and performance-related pay. Our work supports the development of reward frameworks that are aligned with Laing O'Rourke's strategic goals and values, ensuring that our people feel valued and rewarded for their contributions.

Duties include:

• Provides informed advice to the business, both proactively and in response to queries, on salary positions and grade of job roles.
• Leads on job evaluations for new and existing roles, ensuring appropriate job families and levels.
• Responsible for implementation (including project management across other LOR teams) of new benefits and Reward policies.
• Leads the annual benefit review taking ownership of renewal and on-going communication and benefit information documents.
• Responsible for organising participation in salary surveys including job sizing, job matching and survey submissions.
• Responsible for pay benchmarking ensuring our salary ranges are competitive to the market.
• Supports in the successful delivery of the annual salary review, as well as any out of cycle processes and early talent programme increases.

Technical Capabilities:

• Proven experience (ideally 5+ years) within a Reward, Compensation, or broader People/HR function, with a strong focus on pay and benefits.
• Hands-on experience with analytical job evaluation methodologies; experience with specific systems (e.g., Willis Towers Watson) is desirable.
• Knowledge of salary benchmarking tools and survey systems (experience with Willis Towers Watson and PayData advantageous).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, with the ability to manage and interpret complex data sets confidently.
• Good working knowledge of GDPR requirements and how they apply to reward data and employee records.
• Awareness of global mobility practices and considerations is desirable.

If you're interested in a career in reward, with an understanding of reward principles and a proactive, organised approach, this role could be a great opportunity for you.
Based at our Dartford office, this position offers the chance to engage with our people and contribute to reward strategies that make a real impact across the business.

About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email [e-mail]

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