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We are delighted to announce that SThree is searching for a Group Reward Specialist to join the team. Reporting to the Global Reward Director, this exciting opportunity can be based in either our London or Glasgow office on a hybrid basis.
The primary purpose of the role is to drive and ensure the successful execution of SThree’s reward initiatives and strategies, with a strong emphasis on data analytics to enable optimal decision-making. The successful candidate will work closely with the Global Reward Director to evolve, build and drive the Global Reward vision, offering and strategy, championing a commercial and customer-centric approach, in line with reward best practice.
Who will you be working for?
SThree is the global STEM-specialist talent partner that connects sought-after specialists in life sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics with dynamic organisations across the world. We are the number one destination for talent in the best STEM markets: these are today's unsung heroes who positively shape the future. Now we're helping them shape their own futures.
What are the key expectations of this role?
- Collaborate closely with the Global Reward Director to craft, communicate, execute and sustain strategic reward initiatives and plans that help drive organisational growth and key talent retention in a sustainable and profitable manner.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership on matters related to rewards, leveraging data-driven insights to inform optimal decision making.
- Operationalise strategic initiatives, focusing on swift and timely action, progressing towards the end goal.
- Be regarded as a highly collaborative professional with a diverse range of strengths while playing close attention to achievement and optimal delivery.
- Actively contribute to the development and execution of the overall Global Reward strategy and ambitions.
- Help shape a culture of high quality service and operational excellence, continuous development and improvement, together with the highest standards of ethics and integrity.
- Foster strong relationships with key stakeholders and transform complex reward data insights into simple and clear actionable advice.
- Assume leadership of critical reward-related projects and reward cycle activities, such as overseeing annual salary and bonus reviews, ensuring they are delivered punctually and within budget, while aligning with organisational objectives.
- Reward performance metrics: establish and monitor KPIs and performance metrics to gauge the success of strategic reward initiatives, delivering regular updates to the Global Reward Director and other Senior Leaders.
- Analyse industry data, incentive effectiveness vs employee performance, competitive landscapes and market trends to generate valuable insights, empowering data-informed decision-making and help bolstering business growth.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience …
- Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
- Ability to translate complex data insights into simplified and actionable deliverables.
- Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong working relationships and possess a can do attitude.
- Consultative and advisory skills with the ability to provide optimal solutions to business challenges
- Demonstrable experience in complex analytics (ideally with previous reward focus), with strong data and insights skills.
- Experience in managing reward programmes and associated activities at global level would be desirable.
- Good understanding of global reward practices, compensation structures, and performance management principles.
- Ability to navigate in a global matrix/ Helix organisation whilst demonstrating innovative collaboration across the organisation
- Familiarity with the Wills Towers Watson Global Grading framework would be desirable.
- Agile and distributed decision-making: using evidence and judgement to balance pace, rigour, risk, governance.
Qualifications
- Ideally a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field. Advanced degree or certification (e.g., CIPD) would also be a plus.
Benefits for our U.K. teams include:
- The choice to work flexibly from home and the office, in line with our hybrid working principles
- Bonus linked to company and personal performance
- Generous 28 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Five days paid Caregiver/Dependent leave per annum
- Five paid days off per year for volunteering
- Private healthcare, discounted dental insurance and health care cashback scheme
- Opportunity to participate in the company share scheme
- Access to a range of retail discounts and saving
What we stand for...
We’re committed to ensuring that all processes are equitable, and everyone is treated with fairness and dignity where everyone belongs, is valued and connected. If you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments in submitting your application please let us know, and we’ll be happy to help.
