Senior Reward Manager

Frazer Jones; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading firm in HR strategy is seeking a Senior Reward Manager in Manchester. This role involves designing reward programs for clients, managing complex projects, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills and a passion for shaping compensation strategies.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration package

Support for flexible working

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experienced Reward professional with client-facing consulting exposure.
• Highly numerate with strong attention to detail.
• Skilled in project management and delivering practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to complex client projects.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and build trusted partnerships.
• Conduct Reward Optimisation assessments and provide technical advice.

Skills

Client management

Analytical skills

Project management

Communication

Team collaboration

Job description

Delighted to be working with a Manchester based firm that specialises in HR strategy, business transformation and transaction services and is looking for a Reward professional at Senior Manager level. This is a highly established and reputable global organisation that has a truly collaborative, flexible and supportive culture that can offer extensive career development opportunities.

As a Senior Reward Manager, you will play a crucial role in assisting external clients to navigate a complex and evolving regulatory landscape, designing & developing reward programmes to attract, retain, and motivate employees. You will support with enhancing reward programmes to provide an outstanding employee experience and promote progress on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues through remuneration strategies, and support on regulatory reward matters and ensure effective governance is in place.

This is a client facing role with a broad scope, including, but not limited to, reward projects that cover executive compensation, benchmarking, job architecture design and M&A activities. You will ensure adherence to emerging pay equity standards and integrate DE&I into all reward and performance activities. With a focus on financial services clients that include Tier1 banks, FinTech and boutique Investment Management firms you will also deliver for clients in other industry sectors. Working in this client facing role, you will be expected to provide a first class service to your clients and demonstrate a commercial mindset to identify business opportunities and maximise your value proposition.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and contribute to a variety of complex client projects
• Generate innovative insights tailored to clients unique needs.
• Manage stakeholder relationships proactively and build trusted client partnerships.
• Identify new opportunities, business development and preparation of proposals
• Handle operational complexities and manage risks in client engagements.
• Mentor and provide learning opportunities for junior team members.
• Support the achievement of strategic goals and initiatives that drive our growth.
• Collaborate with other service lines to deliver comprehensive reward and HR solutions.
• Conduct Reward Optimisation assessments, analysing data to uncover key insights.
• Offer technical advice on the UK's regulated environment for Financial Services.
• Assist clients in redesigning their Reward Value Proposition.
• Help clients with public disclosures, Gender Pay Gap calculations, and regulatory compliance.

To be considered for this role you should be an experienced Reward professional that ideally brings client facing consulting exposure or in-house within a Financial Services or similar regulated environment. You should be highly numerate with strong client management and communication skills. You must have excellent attention to detail and be effective at extracting and presenting insights from data. A growth mindset with a willingness to challenge established practices is key, plus a resilience and capability of delivering practical solutions under pressure. You should be skilled in project management and collaborative teamwork. It's essential you have a passion for reward and shaping the future people agenda, keeping up to date with the latest trends impacting the compensation landscape.

The company provide a competitive remuneration package, rewarding individual and team performance. Their comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development. You would be expected to be based in their central Manchester office 2 days/week. For this Senior Manager grade you are expected to be extremely commercial to identify revenue opportunities for the firm.

The SR Group (UK) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.