Senior Reward Manager

Middlemore; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Middlemore is pleased to be retained by a global Financial Services organisation to recruit a Senior Reward Manager. Reporting directly to the Group Head of Total Reward & Benefits, you will join the global Reward function and create additional senior capability in the US.

The role provides senior technical advice and recommendations to translate business strategy into practical reward and mobility solutions delivered to the business, supporting transformation across multiple jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• Deep technical knowledge of compensation, incentives, and pay structures.
• Experience designing global reward programs in a multinational environment.
• Strong governance and regulatory awareness.
• Senior stakeholder communication and advisory skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, delivery, and governance of compensation, incentive, and reward programmes.
• Govern annual reward cycles, salary reviews, and benchmarking.
• Develop global pay structures, job architecture, and grading frameworks.
• Provide senior advisory support to the Group Head and stakeholders.
• Own the Group's HR mobility framework and international assignments.
• Drive change programs, automation, and system upgrades in reward.
• Coach and develop reward professionals and manage cross-geography relationships.

Skills

Compensation strategy

Incentive design

Pay governance

Job architecture

Global mobility

Executive stakeholder management

Tools

Workday HCM

Job description

Middlemore is pleased to be retained by a global Financial Services organisation to recruit a Senior Reward Manager. This is a high-impact appointment at a particularly significant point of transformation for the business.

Reporting directly to the Group Head of Total Reward & Benefits , you will join the global Reward function and create additional senior capability in the US. The Senior Reward Manager is responsible for driving the Group's reward and global mobility agenda, ensuring compensation, incentive, job architecture, and mobility frameworks are strategically aligned, commercially robust, well governed, and operationally effective across multiple jurisdictions and organisations.

The role provides senior technical advice and recommendations to the Head of Global Total Reward & Benefits, translating business strategy, market practice and regulatory requirements into practical reward and mobility solutions that are delivered to the business. The role will be a key position in the transforming organisation, including acquisition integration, organisational change and expansion of reward and mobility management across multiple jurisdictions.

As the counterpart to the Senior Global Benefits Manager, the role leads and provides technical depth and delivery across core reward and mobility activity. The role partners closely with HR and Finance to provide reward and mobility solutions, insights and recommendations that support organisational growth and workforce management. There will be a strong emphasis on the US market as we work towards closing on a large US acquisition.

Responsibilities

Reward

• Lead the design, delivery, and governance of compensation, incentive, and reward programmes across the Group, ensuring alignment to Total Reward strategy, affordability, market competitiveness, and internal equity.
• Lead annual reward cycle governance, including salary reviews, bonus planning, market benchmarking, approval processes, and senior stakeholder reporting.
• Recommend the governance framework and deliver on the maintenance and development of global pay structures, job architecture, and grading frameworks, ensuring consistency with design principles.
• Provide commercially balanced reward recommendations, papers, and decision support the Group Head of Total Reward, HR stakeholders and senior governance forums as required.

Governance & Analytics

• Develop with the team reward and mobility analytics and metrics, insights, and market intelligence to support executive-ready recommendations, workforce planning and strategic decision making.
• Maintain effective governance, controls and compliance across reward and mobility activities, including clear policy ownership, decision rights, auditability, and risk management.
• Responsible for audits, regulatory compliance, statutory filings, and policy development

Global Mobility

• Own the Group's HR mobility framework, including international assignments, international relocations, and mobility policy governance.
• Ensure mobility programmes remain compliant, cost effective, employee appropriate and aligned to business needs, while balancing operational delivery with regulatory and tax considerations.
• Manage third-party mobility providers and key stakeholder relationships.

Projects & Change

• Deliver on reward and mobility workstreams for integrations, organisation design, workforce transformation, and technology initiatives, ensuring delivery through the team and effective coordination with HR, Finance, Legal and external advisers.
• Drive solution-oriented process improvements, automation and operational efficiencies across reward and mobility activities, improving scalability, service quality, and control.
• Identifying and developing Reward related system needs. Driving the end-to-end implementation of new systems as well as any regular updates.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of reward professionals, setting priorities, building capability, and ensuring high-quality delivery across BAU activity, cyclical processes, and transformation projects.
• Build strong relationships across HR, Finance and business leadership, acting as a credible senior adviser on reward and mobility matters across geographies.

Technical Knowledge

• Deep technical knowledge of compensation, incentive plans, salary structures, reward and pay modelling, pay governance and reward framework design in a complex multinational environment.
• Job architecture creation/review, job evaluation, and WTW grading methodologies.
• Market benchmarking, pay range development and reward analytics.
• Advanced ability to analyse and interpret financial, workforce and market data, converting complex analysis into clear, executive-ready recommendations and decision materials.
• Global mobility practices including international assignments, relocations, expatriate programmes, and cross-border working arrangements.
• Employment, payroll, tax, and immigration considerations associated with international workforce and mobility.
• Working knowledge of Workday HCM and other reward technologies and reporting tools used to support compensation and mobility activities.
• Strong understanding of risk, control, and compliance requirements within a global insurance organisation.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a senior Reward professional who wants to play a defining role in a major transformation. If you are hands-on, technically strong and comfortable leading complex change at pace we would welcome your interest.