Reward & Benefits Manager
Location: dmg media Headquarters, Derry Street, HSK, London, W8 5HY
Position: Full Time/Permanent/Hybrid - 3 days in the office
Salary: £75,000 - £85,000 + bonus
About The Role
The Reward and Benefits Manager is responsible for assisting the Head of Reward with designing, implementing, and managing the organisation’s reward and benefits strategy. This role ensures that reward programs are competitive, compliant, and aligned with organisational goals while leveraging HRIS technology to optimise Reward operations and enhance employee experience.
Main Responsibilities
Reward
* Work with the Head of Reward and Chief People Officer to develop and implement a reward strategy that aligns with the company’s objectives and market trends.
* Assist Head of Reward in preparation of Remuneration Committee papers
* Participate in salary surveys
* Conduct regular benchmarking and market analysis to ensure competitive positioning.
* Complete Gender Pay Gap reporting and legal compliance
* Participate in reward projects as appropriate
* Develop and manage salary structures, pay scales, and grading frameworks.
* Oversee job evaluation and analysis processes to ensure consistency and fairness.
* Manage the delivery of annual salary and bonus review processes for multiple operating companies.
* Support the Head of Reward in the management of Long Term Incentives, Short Term Incentives and other recognition programs.
Benefits
* Act as in-house expert on employee benefit offering
* Evaluate, manage, and improve employee benefits offerings.
* Work closely with benefits portal provider to optimise employee benefit experience
* Administer life and group income insurance schemes
* Act as Secretary to the DMGT Healthcare Trust
* Ensure benefits programs are engaging and well communicated to employees
* Ensure benefits programs are compliant with local laws and regulations
Stakeholder Collaboration
* Provide guidance to senior management on reward or benefit related matters.
* Partner with finance to manage reward budgets and forecasting.
* Provide operational reward expertise to operating company HR teams
* Liaise with HR Shared Services and Payroll to ensure Reward and Benefit administration runs smoothly
Workday
* Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and confidentiality.
* Configure and complete Annual Compensation Review in Workday for multiple operating companies
* Uploading compensation EIBs and writing reports
* Improve efficiency and use of Workday functional capabilities.
Person Specification
* Extensive experience in reward, compensation, and benefits.
* Knowledge of short-term incentive and long-term incentive design and administration
* Strong analytical and financial acumen with the ability to interpret data and drive decisions.
* Excellent excel competence
* Exceptional communication and influencing skills to engage stakeholders at all levels.
* Experience of Workday would be highly beneficial.
* Demonstrated success in designing and delivering reward programs.
* Familiarity with industry-specific reward practices is an advantage.
Package Description
Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:
* 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
* Pension plan and life cover
* Discounts on online shopping, dining cards and vouchers, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
* Onsite gym, subsidised canteen and onsite nurse and GP clinics
Plus much more...
Our Commitment
We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.
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