Senior Reward Manager

Connells Group HQ • Full-time • Caldecotte, South East England, GB • £35k - £85k / year • 1m ago

Job Description

The Senior Reward Manager plays a critical role in shaping, implementing and governing Connells Group’s reward framework across 14,000 colleagues.

You will lead in delivering a more consistent, transparent, and data-led approach to reward, supporting the Group’s transformation towards a modern, insight-driven and tech-enabled People function.

Key Responsibilities:

Support the design, review and delivery of Group-wide reward policies, ensuring consistency, equity and alignment to Connells Group HOUSE values and regulatory requirements.
Partner with external to ensure the Group maintains competitive and sustainable reward practices.
Support the ongoing refinement and implementation of the Group’s job architecture, grading structures and compensation bands.
Manage annual market benchmarking cycles, producing evidence-based recommendations on pay positioning and structural adjustments.
Provide specialist reward insights to support organisation design, restructures, M&A integration, and strategic workforce planning.
Support the design, modelling, testing and governance of bonus and commission schemes across Estate Agency, Mortgage Services, Central Functions and specialist business lines.
Support the development of the Group benefits strategy, ensuring packages are competitive, cost-effective and aligned to colleague needs.
Oversee supplier relationships, tender processes and benefit renewals (e.g., healthcare, pension, wellbeing, flexible benefits).
Partner closely with the People Systems team to embed reward processes in Workday, ensuring accurate configuration, governance and streamlined workflows.
Drive the use of data and insight to improve reward decision-making, including pay equity analysis, cost modelling, forecasting and scenario planning.
Lead end-to-end delivery of all annual reward events, including pay review, bonus cycles and benefits renewals
Support the production of Exec/RemCo papers, modelling and recommendations, ensuring senior leaders have clear, evidence-based options.

What we are looking for:

Strong track record in reward management within complex, multi-brand or matrix organisations.
Deep knowledge of compensation principles, job evaluation, benchmarking, incentive design and benefits management.
Experience delivering pay and bonus cycles at scale (10,000+ colleagues desirable).
Ability to interpret complex financial and regulatory information and translate it into practical proposals.
Advanced analytical capability, including reward modelling and scenario analysis.
Strong influencing skills, able to work with senior executives and challenge constructively.
Experience partnering with external reward consultants on frameworks, benchmarking or job architecture.

Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

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