Senior Reward Manager

About Us

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.

Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.9 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be.

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.

Introducing Reward at Trainline👋

As Senior Reward Manager at Trainline, you will be the go-to specialist on all Reward matters. You will manage and deliver our core compensation and equity programmes across all markets (UK & EU). You will act as the subject matter expert for reward, ensuring fair, competitive, and well-governed processes that engage our people and support the business.

You will partner closely with People Leadership, Finance, Company Secretary, senior leaders and our Remuneration committee to provide specialist expertise on equity schemes, executive compensation, and company-wide reward processes.

In this role as the Senior Reward Manager at Trainline, you will be responsible for..🚄

Equity Schemes

• Administer and manage all company equity programmes, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely communication.
• Partner with the wider People team, Finance, Company Secretary and external providers to support grant, vesting, and reporting processes.

Executive & Company Compensation

• Support the preparation of Remuneration Committee materials, ensuring analysis, benchmarking, and recommendations are well presented.
• Deliver compensation modelling and reporting to support decision-making.

Reward Processes

• Manage the annual compensation review cycle, including salary review, bonus, and equity grants, ensuring accuracy and fairness.
• Partner with People Partners to advise on promotions, pay changes, and ad-hoc reward queries.
• Support the digitisation of Reward processes, leveraging HRIS and compensation tools to streamline pay, bonus, and equity cycles.

Market Insights & Analysis

• Conduct benchmarking and pay analysis to ensure competitiveness across markets.
• Provide reporting on gender pay, equal pay, and compensation trends.

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure governance standards are upheld across all compensation and equity processes.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation and support audit requirements.

Business Partnering

• Act as the reward subject matter expert for the People team, providing practical and clear guidance to leaders.
• Collaborate with Finance to ensure alignment on budget and cost management.

We'd love to hear from you if you have...🔍

• Proven experience in developing and managing forward-thinking reward programmes that deliver value and engage employees, particularly equity schemes and annual pay cycles.
• Experience in executive compensation processes and preparation of Remuneration Committee papers.
• Strong analytical and Excel/HR systems skills, with the ability to translate data into insights.
• Experience working across multiple geographies is key - UK & EU (France, Italy, Spain).
• Excellent communication skills, able to simplify and explain complex reward topics.
• Strong partnering skills with the ability to influence and support senior stakeholders.

More Information

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!

Our Values Represent The Things That Matter Most To Us And What We Live And Breathe Everyday, In Everything We Do

• 💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail
• ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey
• 🤝 Travel Together - We're one team
• ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!