Global Reward Manager

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.

We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Netherlands and Nordics.

Job Description

The Global Reward Manager is accountable for leading compensation and benefits operationally and will help shape the longer-term strategic direction of the Reward team. This role will have 3-4 direct reports and will report into the Global Head of Reward. This individual will build and foster relationships with key senior internal stakeholders, external partners and provide expert guidance on all compensation and benefits matters across our global operations.

In this role, you will:

• Become a key partner and deputy to our Global Head of Reward and help share PA’s compensation, benefits and broader reward and recognition strategy.
• Design and lead annual compensation pay cycle activities.
• Lead and coach a high performing reward team.
• Perform regular compensation benchmarking, continually seeking to improve salary structures and compensation programmes; analyse market data and evaluate impact; ensure market competitiveness and develop creative solutions with internal partners to drive attraction and retention of talent while facilitating internal equity across the organisation.
• Be responsible for people reporting including the gender pay report and monthly metrics.
• Partner well with HRBPs, other HR Centres of Excellence, and other corporate functions to best guide the business to achieve is broader goals.

You will love this job if:

• You have an analytical mindset and love data - gathering and interpreting it to drive strategy.
• You are fascinated by reward in the broadest sense and how it can be used to deliver strategy and drive performance.
• You thrive in an exciting, fast paced environment as part of a growth organisation undergoing frequent change and development.
• You are a natural problem-solver who can make recommendations at pace and communicate clearly to establish credibility, competence, and confidence with key internal stakeholders.
• You are self-driven and constantly striving to improve your own performance and the performance of your team.
• You have a high comfort level with ambiguity, able to navigate different opinions with ease.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a global professional services firm or similar
• A strong compensation and benefits professional, who has experience working on compensation benchmarking and salary ranges, modelling and costing proposals in multiple markets and jurisdictions.
• Exceptional attention to detail, deadline driven and works well under pressure, with strong structured project management skills, including organising the work of a team
• High level of integrity, EQ and discretion
• The proven ability to manage third-party supplier relationships
• Ideally, some exposure managing small-sized teams and must have people management experience
• Experience of mergers and acquisitions would be advantageous but not essential

Additional Information

Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• 25 days annual leave with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Company pension scheme
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Life and Income protection insurance
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
• Additional optional benefits (Dental, critical illness, PA Share Ownership and spouse/partner life assurance)

Life At PA
Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. 

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here. 

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people.

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. 

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.