Senior Reward Specialist

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Job Description

About the job.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Reward Specialist to join the HR Reward and Performance centre of expertise (CoE) at National Highways, on an 18-month fixed term contract basis.

The Senior Reward Specialist is responsible for managing and overseeing all aspects of National Highways' reward arrangements, from working with external stakeholders to writing Remuneration Committee papers and completing market benchmarking.

• Contribute to the design and development of the reward strategy, ensuring that policy and practice operate within our agreed Remuneration Framework and is aligned to National Highways' Road Investment and People strategies.
• Draft Remuneration Committee papers on behalf of the Reward and Performance CoE.
• Manage and oversee the implementation and ongoing maintenance of the overall National Highways reward structure, encompassing job evaluation and sizing, grading structures and job families, and benchmarking.
• Liaise with external stakeholders ensuring progression of projects, completing business cases and promptly providing additional information when required to assist recommendations.
• Work with the wider Reward and Performance team to provide a pragmatic, customer focused, creative and commercially grounded reward service; supporting and coaching colleagues, and sharing expertise as required.

The role will be worked on a hybrid basis, with a combination of office and remote working. You will be required to attend the Birmingham office at least 2 days per week.

About you.

• Proven experience in all areas of rewards and recognition including pay, benefits, pension, market benchmarking, job evaluation, and executive compensation.
• Understanding of industry best practice, market trends, and developments in reward management.
• Excellent paper-writing skills, including being able to articulate complexity in a clear, concise way.
• Sound consulting, facilitation, and advisory skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with leadership and senior management.
• A bachelor's degree, preferably in HR, business administration, or a related field or commensurate professional experience (Desirable).

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Our HR directorate includes a wide range of services to support our people to be the best they can be, and to enable the organisation to achieve its goals and objectives.

We're fully committed to making National Highways a great place to work. We want an inclusive culture where our people feel informed, motivated, engaged - and always reaching for high levels of performance.

Through our People Strategy we're also building our company's resilience, making it better prepared for the future - and we're always striving to improve our day-to-day services.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

About Us

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We're proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you'll be a great fit for our organisation.

A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we're open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are

• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

• Right to work check
• 3 year employment history references
• DBS criminal record check
• Social media and adverse journalism check
• Driving licence check (if applicable)
• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
• Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)

And finally

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