Pay & Reward Lead
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£41,700
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 3571 (85% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £41,700, and Venesky Brown is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 1136 (Human resource managers and directors, Business Partner title and leadership could imply HR management role) or SOC 3549 (Business associate professionals not elsewhere classified., Job evaluation officer role fits specialist analytical work). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
About the role
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh / Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Pay & Reward Business Partner for an initial 6 month contract with option to extend on a rate of £500/day (Inside IR35). This role will be hybrid working with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.
To provide specialist pay & reward expertise and hands-on delivery support across the organisation’s pay and reward arrangements.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and undertake job evaluation activity for new and evolving roles, ensuring consistency of approach and appropriate supporting documentation.
- Provide specialist advice on job sizing, grading and organisational design implications, working closely with People & Culture colleagues and business leaders.
- Conduct external pay benchmarking using appropriate market data and provide clear, evidence-based recommendations on salary positioning.
- Review and analyse the organisation’s existing pay and grading arrangements, identifying issues relating to internal equity, market competitiveness, pay compression or other reward risks.
- Support the development and refinement of salary ranges, pay architecture and associated reward governance.
- Provide reward analysis and advice to support recruitment, promotion, retention and organisational change decisions.
- Support gender pay gap and wider equal pay analysis, identifying trends, risks and appropriate actions.
- Undertake modelling and analysis to assess the cost and organisational impact of potential reward changes.
- Support the review and development of reward policies, processes and guidance, ensuring they are clear, proportionate and consistently applied.
- Produce clear reward papers, analysis and recommendations for senior management and relevant governance forums.
- Ensure reward decisions and recommendations take appropriate account of the organisation’s public-sector context, equality obligations and wider governance requirements.
- Improve reward data, documentation and processes to leave sustainable approaches and tools in place at the end of the assignment.
Essential Skills:
- Significant specialist experience across compensation, reward and job evaluation gained within Financial Services.
- Practical experience of job evaluation and grading methodologies, ideally gained within a complex or professional-services environment.
- Demonstrable experience of salary benchmarking and interpreting external market data.
- Experience developing or reviewing salary structures, pay ranges, reward frameworks along with designing and implementing incentive schemes. Expertise in Long Term Incentive Plans (LTIP) would be beneficial.
- Proven analytical capability, with the ability to translate complex reward data into clear recommendations.
- Experience of gender pay gap, equal pay and internal pay-equity analysis.
- Sound knowledge of reward governance and the employment/equality considerations associated with pay decisions.
- Experience supporting organisational design, restructuring or significant role change would be particularly valuable.
- Stakeholder-management skills and the credibility to advise senior leaders on sensitive reward matters.
- The ability to work independently, prioritise competing requirements and deliver at pace within a defined contract period.
- Excel skills and confidence working with HR, payroll and market-remuneration data.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
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Where this offer sits in the market
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What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 3571 going rate of £41,700. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.