Senior Total Rewards Analyst

Visa Hunt; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity scheme

Flexible working

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

Job summary

Motorway, the UK's largest online car-selling platform, seeks a Senior Total Reward Analyst to own compensation, equity, and commission across the business. You will report to the CPO and work closely with senior leadership and Finance to shape a scalable rewards function aided by AI tools.

You will manage market pricing, equity plan analysis, and commission reviews, partnering with People, Finance and leadership to drive strategic reward decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience in total rewards, compensation and benefits, or reward is desirable but not essential.
• Hands-on user of AI tools for data analysis, dashboards, and recommendations.
• Comfortable in a small, tight-knit team where work has direct impact and you pick up diverse tasks.
• Strong analytical and spreadsheet skills.
• Excellent communication across People, Finance and the wider business.

Responsibilities

• Own market pricing and pay benchmarking using external surveys and job matching.
• Build salary bands and use AI tooling to drive efficiency in the structure.
• Run the annual merit cycle and gender pay gap reporting with CPO, People Partners, and Finance.
• Keep Humaans HRIS accurate and build compensation dashboards for decision-making.
• Support Talent Acquisition and People Partners on benchmarking and offers.
• Manage employee equity plans (EMI/unapproved options) and analyze cap table dynamics.
• Analyze equity burn and partner on plan design and communication.

Skills

Total rewards

Compensation & benefits

AI tooling

Dashboards

Clear communicator

Tools

Humaans HRIS

Job description

About Motorway

Motorway is the UK's largest online car-selling platform. We connect private sellers directly with over 8,000 dealers nationwide. Our online platform helps sellers achieve great prices for their cars while giving dealers fast, reliable access to the stock they want for their dealerships. Founded in 2017, our award-winning, technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car. Motorway is backed by some of the world’s leading technology investors, having raised £143 million in Series C funding.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing scale-up at a crucial phase of growth and help change an industry for the better.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing scale-up at a crucial phase of growth and help change an industry for the better.

We're looking for a Senior Total Reward Analyst to own compensation, equity, and commission across the business - reporting directly to the CPO and working closely with senior leadership and Finance.

This is a broad, hands-on remit with real influence. You'll bring structure to how we pay and reward our people, use AI tooling as a core part of how you work, and help shape a rewards function that scales with us.

What you’ll do

Compensation

• Own market pricing and pay benchmarking - including external surveys, job matching, and evaluating competitive pay levels.

• Take our newly completed job architecture live: build out salary bands to best-practice standard, simplify where possible, and use AI tooling to drive efficiency in how the structure is built and maintained.

• Run the annual merit cycle and gender pay gap reporting, partnering with the CPO, People Partners, and Finance.

• Partner with the People Operations Lead to keep Humaans (our HRIS) accurate, build dashboards that turn compensation data into clear decisions, and support Talent Acquisition and People Partners on benchmarking and offers.

Equity

• Bring hands-on experience with employee equity plans - EMI, unapproved options, or equivalent.

• Understand cap table dynamics, run equity and option pool analysis, and monitor equity burn.

• Partner with the CPO, senior leadership, and People Partners to develop equity plans (grant sizing, vesting, segmentation) and deliver awards from communication planning through to administration and execution.

Commission

• Support the current full audit and review of our commission plans, working with business leaders on ongoing review processes.

• Help ensure commission plans are built for long-term success - structured to drive the right behaviours sustainably, not just short-term outcomes.

• Partner with the business, People Partners, and Finance on commission plan analysis, documentation, policy, and communication materials.

What we’re looking for

• Solid grounding in total rewards, compensation and benefits, or reward - equity and/or commission experience is desirable but not essential

• A practised, hands-on user of AI tools - someone already embedding them into how they analyse data, build dashboards, and shape recommendations.

• Comfortable in a small, tight-knit team where everyone's work has direct impact, picking up whatever the work needs - whether that's a benchmarking model, a comms deck, or a grant administration process.

• Strong analytical and spreadsheet skills.

• A clear communicator who partners naturally across People, Finance, and the wider business.

BENEFITS

We've got your back, in life's biggest moments and the everyday ones too.

• Competitive salary

• Equity scheme - we all share in Motorway's success

• 25 days holiday

• Flexible working (2 days a week in our London office, with socials and snacks galore)

• Private medical insurance via BUPA

• Life assurance

• Pension scheme (we contribute 5%)

• Enhanced family leave (e.g. 26 weeks full pay for maternity or adoption)

• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

• EV leasing scheme