Group Reward Lead

Babcock International; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Employee share scheme

Flexible working

Job summary

Babcock International seeks a Group Reward Lead to shape reward strategy across our global organisation. You will partner with senior stakeholders to ensure competitive, fair reward programmes aligned to business goals and employee engagement.

You’ll lead annual reward cycles, deliver market benchmarking insights, and guide governance across compensation policies while supporting transformational reward initiatives and stakeholder relationships.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in compensation and reward within large, complex organisations with international exposure.
• Experience designing and operating reward frameworks, policies and processes that support business objectives.
• Strong experience leading annual reward cycles including salary reviews and incentive programmes.
• Experience using market benchmarking, salary surveys and reward analytics to inform strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual reward activities and governance processes.
• Deliver market benchmarking and provide insights to support decisions.
• Develop and maintain compensation frameworks and reward governance.
• Advise HR and senior leaders on reward matters and complex issues.
• Support design and delivery of reward-related projects and change initiatives.
• Use market intelligence to identify trends and inform strategy.

Skills

Compensation design

Market benchmarking

Stakeholder management

Salary surveys

Reward analytics

Tools

Excel

SuccessFactors

Job description

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. As a Group Reward Lead, you’ll play a critical role in shaping how we attract, retain and reward talented people across our global organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing Group Reward team, influencing reward strategy and partnering with senior stakeholders across the business. You’ll help ensure our reward programmes remain competitive, fair and aligned to our organisational goals, while contributing to initiatives that directly support business performance and employee engagement.

The Role

As a key member of the Group Reward team, you’ll provide expert reward insight and leadership across a broad range of compensation activities. Working closely with HR and business leaders, you’ll help develop and deliver reward solutions that support our people strategy and reinforce a high-performance culture. You’ll combine strong analytical capability with commercial awareness to drive evidence-based decision making, ensure robust governance and continuously improve our reward practices.

Day-to-day, you’ll:

• Lead the delivery of annual reward activities, including salary reviews, incentive cycles and associated governance processes.
• Deliver market benchmarking and reward analysis, providing insights and recommendations to support business decision-making.
• Develop, maintain and enhance compensation frameworks, policies and reward governance across the Group.
• Partner with HR teams and business leaders to provide expert advice on reward matters and complex compensation issues.
• Support the design and implementation of reward-related projects and change initiatives that improve the employee experience and organisational effectiveness.
• Use reward data and market intelligence to identify trends, opportunities and potential risks, helping to inform future reward strategy.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week, and offers hybrid working arrangements with a blend of office and home-based working.

Essential Experience of the Group Reward Lead

• Significant experience within compensation and reward, ideally gained in a large, complex and matrixed organisation with international exposure.
• Proven experience designing, implementing and operating reward frameworks, policies and processes that support business objectives.
• Strong experience leading annual reward cycles, including salary review and incentive programmes.
• Experience using market benchmarking, salary surveys and reward analytics to inform reward strategy and decision-making.
• Excellent analytical skills, including advanced Excel capability and experience working with HR systems such as SuccessFactors.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility and work effectively with senior leaders.

We value difference and recognise that great people come from a wide range of backgrounds. Whether your expertise has been gained through formal qualifications, professional development or practical experience, we’d love to hear from you if you can demonstrate the skills and experience required for the role.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Why Babcock?

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment
• Annual incentive plan
• Private medical insurance