Head of Reward Location: Dunstable (3 days working in the office, 2 days from home or alternative location) Package: £130,000 - £140,000 dependant on skills and experiences car allowance up to 50% bonus health bens Function: People Team Reporting to: Reward, Pensions & Insight Director Lead Reward Strategy at Scale. Shape the Future of Hospitality. At Whitbread, we’re proud to be one of the UK’s leading hospitality businesses, with a heritage that goes back nearly 300 years! Whitbread is home to Premier Inn, BarBlock, Beefeater and more. With a significant multi-million pound investment in reward every year, we’re looking for a strategic and commercially astute Head of Reward to lead our UK-wide reward, pay, incentive, benefits and recognition strategy. This is a rare opportunity to influence how we attract, retain and engage our 35,000 team, from our team members and managers in our hotels and restaurants to our support centres in Dunstable and London. What You’ll Be Responsible For Designing and delivering a future-focused reward architecture across pay, incentives, benefits and recognition. Managing the annual pay and incentive cycles for both hourly-paid and salaried populations. Partnering with ExCo, Operations Leadership, HR and Finance to align Reward with business strategy. Driving a recognition culture that celebrates performance, loyalty, and service. Ensuring compliance, governance, and financial control across all reward activities. Leading a high-performing team of Reward professionals. What Makes This Role Unique Scale & Breadth : Influence the full spectrum of reward strategy across a large multi-sited, hourly-paid workforce and corporate teams. Strategic Impact : Shape frameworks that support attraction, retention and progression. Visibility & Influence : Work closely with senior leaders and your external Reward networks. Innovation & Challenge : Navigate a complex labour market and evolving reward landscape. What We’re Looking For Proven experience managing reward for a multi-site, hourly-paid workforce. Deep expertise in pay, incentives, benefits and recognition strategy. Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at the highest levels and ability to continue developing team (3 x direct reports, wider team of 6) Commercially savvy, data-driven and passionate about creating equitable and engaging reward solutions. A natural networker who thrives on external benchmarking and thought leadership. Ready to Make an Impact? Join Whitbread and help shape a reward strategy that supports our people, drives performance, and reflects our values. If you're a strategic thinker with a passion for people and performance—we want to hear from you. We are proud to have been recognised as a Top Employer for 14 consecutive years, voted a top apprenticeship employer by Department of Education and Rate my Apprenticeship, this year we placed 10 in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index for our commitment to LGBTQIA inclusion at Whitbread and have been awarded as a Top 25 Exemplary Employer in the Investing in Ethnicity Parliamentary Matrix as the only hospitality company leading the way in terms of Inclusion.