Strategic Reward & Performance Manager (3-Month Contract)

LHH; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

LHH is seeking a Reward & Performance Manager for a three-month fixed-term contract in the UK. The role focuses on delivering the annual performance management and salary review cycle, coordinating from preparation to handover, and working closely with the Head of Reward.

The candidate will be highly organized, advanced in Excel, comfortable handling detailed employee data, and skilled at managing multiple stakeholders to tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Previous experience supporting or managing an annual salary review, performance review or reward cycle.
• Strong experience working with detailed employee-level data in a multi-country or complex organisation.
• Advanced Excel skills including lookups, structured formulas, pivot tables, reconciliation and error checking.
• Excellent numerical accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage a time-critical process with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience identifying data issues, exceptions and inconsistencies and maintaining clear audit trails.
• Confidence producing concise management reporting and presenting data clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Practical understanding of fair and consistent reward decision-making and how data can identify potential bias or unintended outcomes.
• The ability to handle highly confidential information with discretion.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the annual performance and salary review cycle across multiple countries.
• Build and maintain process trackers for populations, managers, deadlines, submissions and approvals.
• Prepare and quality-check data, templates and guidance ahead of launch.
• Produce salary pot sheets with verified employee, salary, performance and budget data.
• Manage issue, return and approval processes and follow up to meet deadlines.
• Validate submissions for formulas, budgets, eligibility and salary outcomes.
• Identify exceptions, outliers, overspends and inconsistencies with audit trails.
• Support calibration and fairness analysis across functions and countries.
• Provide reporting and analysis to Head of Reward and SLT on budgets and distributions.
• Consolidate approved changes into a master dataset and hand over for implementation.
• Maintain confidentiality and governance around remuneration data.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Tools

Excel

Job description

LHH is seeking a Reward & Performance Manager for a three-month fixed-term contract in the UK. The role focuses on delivering the annual performance management and salary review cycle, coordinating from preparation to handover, and working closely with the Head of Reward.

The candidate will be highly organized, advanced in Excel, comfortable handling detailed employee data, and skilled at managing multiple stakeholders to tight deadlines.