20 Compensation And Benefits jobs in the United Kingdom

• Own end-to-end payroll delivery (UK & international) in collaboration with HR, Finance, and external partners
• Act as the go-to expert for payroll queries and employee benefits, including pensions and family-related leave
• Manage and enhance reward initiatives such as our annual award and share schemes
• Conduct compensation analysis, salary benchmarking, and support pay equity reviews
• Ensure HR data integrity through regular audits and system updates (HRIS)
• Produce accurate reporting for leadership, auditors, and regulatory needs
• Drive process improvements and support HR tech projects
• Contribute to broader HR initiatives, providing guidance on employment legislation

• Proven experience in managing UK and international payrolls
• Strong knowledge of benefits schemes, pensions, and statutory entitlements
• Skilled in compensation benchmarking and pay analysis
• HRIS and payroll system proficiency; strong data management capabilities

• CIPD Level 7 or equivalent (nice to have)
• Global reward experience, including share schemes and provider networks
• Experience in HR tech, employee relations, and private company incentive schemes

• Salary disclosure on discussion
• Full corporate benefits package
• Fully office based, Monday to Friday
• Great London offices and fantastic working environment

Delighted to be working with a global brand name that is looking to hire a Compensation & Benefits Advisor on a permanent basis. This a great role to gain broad experience across all areas of compensation and benefits with a sizable and diverse headcount that is geographically dispersed across the UK.

Reporting into the Head of C&B's this role supports a headcount of c.6K across multiple UK sites.
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The ideal candidate will lead the design and delivery of the global reward policy agenda for the company. The role focuses on all aspects of reward including reward infrastructure and job architecture, global incentive design and overall strategic reward partnering at a leadership level.

Hybrid – 3 days in the office

Start – ASAP

Duration – 8 months

Responsibilities

• Drive the development and implementation of the global reward approach
• Design and seek leadership approval of global reward models and approaches, which supports the wider HR strategy
• Lead the development of global incentive plans (sales and bonus) and bring expertise to the development of functional/regional incentive plans
• Own the approach to the company's reward infrastructure including job banding, market benchmark surveys, salary range models, and supporting job architecture.
• Manage the annual bonus and merit cycles globally

Qualifications

• 7 years+ experience in reward role in house or consulting
• Experience in modelling, incentive plans, bonus design and the ability to work with data and model it effectively.
• A solid understanding of pay reviews is essential, as the successful candidate will need to feel confident standing in front of 500 managers and delivering training.
• Experience in managing large, complex, global projects with network of cross-functional stakeholders
• Deep knowledge of core reward topics e.g., job architecture, reward and compensation principles, pay structure design, incentive design and benefits
• Experience of working in a multinational organisation

Delighted to be working with a global brand name that is looking to hire a Compensation & Benefits Advisor on a permanent basis. This a great role to gain broad experience across all areas of compensation and benefits with a sizable and diverse headcount that is geographically dispersed across the UK.

Reporting into the Head of C&B's this role supports a headcount of c.6K across multiple UK sites.

Role: Senior Manager – Reward, Data & Strategic Workforce Planning

Location: Hybrid – Surrey (3 days on-site, 2 days WFH with flexibility)

Salary: £80,000–£95,000 + Car Scheme + Bonus + PMI (Family Cover) + Critical Illness + Additional Benefits

Contract Type: Permanent | Full-Time

Alexander Lloyd are delighted to be exclusively supporting an Global Manufacturing organisation on the Recruitment of a Senior HR and Reward manager role.

Shape the future of work in a purpose-led, high-performing organisation.

A forward-thinking UK head office is undergoing an exciting period of strategic change, with People now firmly at the centre of its business transformation. As the business integrates strategies across Finance, Operations, and Marketing, the People function is being elevated—focusing on connectivity, experience, and sustainability.

We are now hiring a Senior Manager – Reward, Data & Strategic Workforce Planning to lead on all things Reward, Compensation, and Strategic Workforce Design. This is a newly created role, offering the opportunity to shape the total employee proposition and future workforce model of a complex, contractor-rich organisation.

The Role

Lead the development and delivery of Reward, Compensation, and Workforce Planning frameworks and strategy

nsure a sustainable, attractive and cost-effective employee offer, aligned with long-term business needs

ive data-led workforce planning, tracking structural evolution and supporting organisational design

ad key strategic projects such as HR system transformation, benefits reengineering, or reward model redesign

liver impactful employee insights through people data, supporting succession and planning decisions

vern and enhance relationships with contingent workforce suppliers

pport annual salary and bonus processes, as well as pension governance and benefit reviews

sure full compliance with employment law and data management standards

Who We’re Looking For

A asoned professional in Compensation & Benefits, Strategic HR, or Workforce Planning

le to operate at both strategic and operational levels, with excellent stakeholder management

ckground in supporting commercial head office functions like Sales and Marketing

rong understanding of contractor models, external supplier governance, and labour cost control

sight into employee experience vs. cost trade-offs, ideally from a complex or matrixed organisation

perience in HRIS migrations, pension schemes, or reward strategy projects is a strong advantage

en to sector and brand – experience in dynamic, performance-driven environments is key

Please quote 51661 when calling Theo Saunders at Alexander Lloyd or email them at This is only one of many vacancies we are handling, Alexander Lloyd Human Resources Recruitment Solutions is the leading recruiter for HR Director, Manager, Business Partner, Learning & Development, Internal Communications, Talent Acquisition and Reward opportunities across Surrey, Sussex, Kent and London.

Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants you have not been shortlisted for this role. Please continue to check our website for any other roles which may be of interest.

My Client a large global financial services brand is looking for an experienced Compensation and Benefits Analyst on a initial 6 month contract. The role is Inside IR35 and Hybrid (3 days onsite).

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the UK Benefits operational environment. This role is UK benefits specific. The role will require the incumbent to evaluate solutions/options to recommend and implement solutions for operational problems. Where the solution impacts the employee experience/benefit design the role will need to work with the UK team to ensure the solution is in line with the strategy and benefit policy. When operational issues arise, this role will be responsible for analysing the route cause, developing a solution and where necessary co-ordinating the resolution with internal and external stakeholders.

The incumbent must be able to work independently and manage multiple priorities whilst demonstrating a professional demeaner. Flexibility and adaptability are critical attributes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project management: Responsible for the operational implementation of new benefits and changes to existing programs per the UK integrated benefits strategy. This may involve internal and external stakeholders, regulatory understanding, new process, and procedure development coupled with challenging time scales.
• Process improvement: Partner with benefits vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure the efficient use of employee-facing benefits platforms to provide an excellent end-to-end employee experience from benefits enrolment to delivery. Develop an understanding of data flows through systems (internal and external) to identify and implement process improvements.
• Business as usual administration: Update and maintain online benefit content for accuracy, relevance and compliance. Monitor internal benefit inboxes and respond to queries, escalations and complaints. Trouble-shoot and as necessary consult with others regarding how benefits are processed, or issues resolved. Using working knowledge of UK Benefits landscape, industry regulations, restrictions, and laws, to ensure all processes and service methods adhere to appropriate regulations
• Vendor Management: Partner with various teams to facilitate a successful governance review of our UK Benefits vendors.

Required Skills & Knowledge

• Experience in UK C&B environment is an advantage
• Knowledge of UK Pension industry regulations, restrictions, and laws.
• Intermediate Excel skills, such as using Vlookup and pivot tables are essential for data reconciliation and validation tasks
• Act as an initial point of contact for all initial benefits issues & escalations
• Coordinate complex projects with multiple stakeholders, including the group's flexible benefits and annual Share Purchase Plan offerings
• Act as a technical validator for all benefits invoices prior to payment
• Strong communication skills, ideally with experience of rolling out mass communications for reward initiatives and projects
• Confident and comfortable making recommendations and challenging senior members of the team
• Innovative and creative thinker, with excellent problem-solving skills. Ability to resolve problems with complex processes and provide solutions and timely resolution
• Project management skills with experience of delivering complex technology driven projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders
• Adaptability, when projects/initiatives need to deviate from original plans or shift directions based on changing needs and priorities
• Strong ability to build & leverage internal & external relationships in a cross functional environment
• Strong experience with vendors management: Governance, onboarding/off boarding, relationship
• A desire to have fun and deliver in a fast paced and high performing team

My Client a large global financial services brand is looking for an experienced Compensation and Benefits Analyst on a initial 6 month contract. The role is Inside IR35 and Hybrid (3 days onsite).

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the UK Benefits operational environment. This role is UK benefits specific. The role will require the incumbent to evaluate solutions/options to recommend and implement solutions for operational problems. Where the solution impacts the employee experience/benefit design the role will need to work with the UK team to ensure the solution is in line with the strategy and benefit policy. When operational issues arise, this role will be responsible for analysing the route cause, developing a solution and where necessary co-ordinating the resolution with internal and external stakeholders.

The incumbent must be able to work independently and manage multiple priorities whilst demonstrating a professional demeaner. Flexibility and adaptability are critical attributes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project management: Responsible for the operational implementation of new benefits and changes to existing programs per the UK integrated benefits strategy. This may involve internal and external stakeholders, regulatory understanding, new process, and procedure development coupled with challenging time scales.
• Process improvement: Partner with benefits vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure the efficient use of employee-facing benefits platforms to provide an excellent end-to-end employee experience from benefits enrolment to delivery. Develop an understanding of data flows through systems (internal and external) to identify and implement process improvements.
• Business as usual administration: Update and maintain online benefit content for accuracy, relevance and compliance. Monitor internal benefit inboxes and respond to queries, escalations and complaints. Trouble-shoot and as necessary consult with others regarding how benefits are processed, or issues resolved. Using working knowledge of UK Benefits landscape, industry regulations, restrictions, and laws, to ensure all processes and service methods adhere to appropriate regulations
• Vendor Management: Partner with various teams to facilitate a successful governance review of our UK Benefits vendors.

Required Skills & Knowledge

• Experience in UK C&B environment is an advantage
• Knowledge of UK Pension industry regulations, restrictions, and laws.
• Intermediate Excel skills, such as using Vlookup and pivot tables are essential for data reconciliation and validation tasks
• Act as an initial point of contact for all initial benefits issues & escalations
• Coordinate complex projects with multiple stakeholders, including the group's flexible benefits and annual Share Purchase Plan offerings
• Act as a technical validator for all benefits invoices prior to payment
• Strong communication skills, ideally with experience of rolling out mass communications for reward initiatives and projects
• Confident and comfortable making recommendations and challenging senior members of the team
• Innovative and creative thinker, with excellent problem-solving skills. Ability to resolve problems with complex processes and provide solutions and timely resolution
• Project management skills with experience of delivering complex technology driven projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders
• Adaptability, when projects/initiatives need to deviate from original plans or shift directions based on changing needs and priorities
• Strong ability to build & leverage internal & external relationships in a cross functional environment
• Strong experience with vendors management: Governance, onboarding/off boarding, relationship
• A desire to have fun and deliver in a fast paced and high performing team

Internal Job Title: Compensation and Benefits Manager

Business: Lucy Group Ltd

Location: Oxford (Hybrid)

Job Reference No:4162

Job Purpose:

Development and implementation of globally integrated rewards and benefit programs within approved policies, procedures, and budget with the objective of attracting and retaining talents for the global Lucy Group businesses. Govern and support implementation of jobs architecture ensuring job grades, pay scales all review processes are running as per agreed rewards policies.

Business Overview:

Lucy Group is an international group that makes the built environment sustainable.

Our electric businesses advance the transition to a carbon-free world with infrastructure that enables renewable energy and smart cities. Our real estate businesses support sustainable living through responsible property development and investment.

Job Dimensions:

The role reports into Global Head of HR Operations and Rewards and will be a key member of the global HR community that supports and delivers HR services to Lucy businesses.

Key Accountabilities:

Compensation Planning

• Provides recommendations related to update on salary structures to ensure company's competitiveness on pay and benefits
• Provides guidance on salary levels during the budgeting process and ensures compliance to group policies to provide accurate and appropriate salary recommendations that are within budget and market standards
• Works with HRBPs to prepare job descriptions, conducts job evaluation and benchmarking, establishes salary structures, provides input to salary budgets, and prepares policies and procedures to insure the achievement of competitive employee compensation
• Maintains a working knowledge of local legislations influencing compensation and benefits at each LE location
• Govern jobs architecture ensuring agreed job title, grading, and org structure standards are adhered to

Compensation Administration

• Acting as a source of expertise to HR Business Partners in job matching and bench marking to enable accurate internal and external comparison of roles and to make individual salary recommendations
• Prepare and recommend guidelines on administration of salary offers, salaries, salary review, promotions, performance related pay and sales incentives for all LE sites.

Benefits Planning And Administration

• Performs regular review of global benefits, and guidelines in implementation of benefits programs to maintain competitiveness of company benefits
• Reviews and endorses for further approval of benefit propositions to help improve the company's attraction and retention of talents.

Performance Management

• Provides guidelines and works with the Talent team on performance management process; drives system design linked to business objectives; supports consistent implementation of the performance driven rewards that will support business goals & objectives

Qualifications, Knowledge, And Experience

Minimum:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role of which at least 3 years working for a similar global business
• CIPD qualification preferred

Job Specific Skills:

• Experience of reviewing global organization structures and job descriptions for alignment and efficiency
• Ability to design grading structures for all locations
• Experience of conducting benchmarking for base pay, allowances, short term incentives and benefits
• Ability to design salary structures according to local regulatory, taxation and industry norms
• Familiarity with commonly used industry frameworks likes Hays
• Experience of using Korn Ferry Talent Hub and Pay systems
• Advanced level of data analysis and MS Office (Excel, Word, Power Point) skills

Behavioural Competencies

• Structured and analytical thinking with attention to details
• Good communication and influencing skills
• Ability to work with remote teams with different cultural backgrounds
• Self-starter with ability to deliver with minimum supervision
• Hands on approach

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My Client a large global financial services brand is looking for an experienced Compensation and Benefits Analyst on a initial 6 month contract. The role is Inside IR35 and Hybrid (3 days onsite).

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the UK Benefits operational environment. This role is UK benefits specific. The role will require the incumbent to evaluate solutions/options to recommend and im.