💥 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!