Reward and Recognition Specialist
9 days ago
Croydon
💥 Reward & Recognition Specialist | Shape How People Feel, Fairly & Fearlessly ✨ 📍 London (Hybrid) 💷 £45,000 - £55,000 🕒 Full Time, Permanent Are you the kind of Reward professional who gets excited by fair pay, meaningful recognition, and data that actually tells a story? We’re looking for a Reward & Recognition Specialist to play a key role in delivering cyclical and strategic reward activity across a complex, people-centric organisation. You’ll sit at the heart of pay, benefits, job evaluation and recognition - making sure people feel valued, recognised, and treated fairly. 🗺️ The Mission: Fair Pay, Smart Data & Recognition That Actually Lands This role supports the end-to-end delivery of reward and recognition activity - from annual pay reviews and job evaluation, through to benefits management and recognition schemes that genuinely matter to employees. You’ll help keep reward structures robust, compliant, competitive and future-ready, while also bringing creativity to how recognition shows up across the business. In short: you’ll help make reward feel human, not just transactional. 🧬 What You’ll Be Doing: The Real Work That Matters You’ll partner closely with the Reward & Recognition Manager and wider People team to: • Deliver annual pay review cycles (including Management & Admin and collectively bargained grades), • Maintain grading structures and job description frameworks, • Undertake job evaluation for new and evolving roles, • Complete salary surveys and external market benchmarking, • Build pay and cost models to support BAU and strategic reward decisions, • Support pay gap analysis alongside Talent, D&I and Analytics teams, • Develop reward dashboards and reports (Power BI 📊), • Manage and continuously improve recognition schemes - from instant awards to long service celebrations, • Co-deliver recognition events like Long Service Awards and Star Awards ⭐, • Support benefits management, wellbeing provision and supplier relationships, • Act as a trusted reward SME to People Partners across the business You’ll also step up as deputy to the Reward & Recognition Manager when needed - a great opportunity for growth. 🧠 What You Bring: Detail, Data & People Savvy We’re looking for someone who blends analytical sharpness with people-first thinking: • Experience in a Reward role or as a strong HR Generalist, • Excellent Excel skills and confidence handling complex data, • Experience with compensation surveys and market data, • Strong organisational and project management skills, • A proactive, solutions-focused mindset, • The ability to explain reward clearly to non-reward stakeholders, • A genuine interest in how reward and recognition drive engagement If you’re detail-driven and creative - this one’s got your name on it. 🌱 Values Matter Here (A Lot) You’ll be joining an organisation that lives its values every day: • Fair – objective, consistent and equitable, • Accountable – we do what we say we’ll do, • Collaborative – one team, shared goals, • Transparent – open, honest conversations, • Open-minded – always improving, always learning And most importantly, people here feel valued, respected and safe. 🎯 Why This Role? • Broad, end-to-end exposure to Reward & Recognition, • A role where your work genuinely affects how people feel at work, • Strong partnership with data, D&I, comms and leadership, • Space to grow, learn and build deep reward expertise, • A chance to modernise recognition while respecting what already works. Apply via the link and learn more!