Senior Reward Specialist

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Position Purpose

The Senior Reward Specialist will support the Head of Reward in the day-to-day management, governance, and delivery of the organisation s global reward programs across Australia, New Zealand, India, Poland, the United Kingdom and South Africa. The role is responsible for ensuring our reward frameworks are competitive, compliant and aligned to business objectives, while providing high-quality support, guidance and analysis to People & Culture Business Partners, managers and key stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

Reward Operations & Governance

Support the annual remuneration review cycle, including Workday inputs, data preparation, salary benchmarking, reporting and communication.

Assist in managing Incentive plan operations, including participant eligibility, modelling, documentation and communication.

Maintain job architecture and compensation frameworks, ensuring role evaluations and internal relativities are consistently applied.

Coordinate remuneration and benefits governance requirements, including documentation, policy maintenance and audit responses.

Lead annual submissions to Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) and UK Government Equalities Office.

Compensation Benchmarking & Analysis

Conduct market benchmarking exercises using external survey partners.

Analyse compensation data to evaluate internal equity, competitiveness and compression risks across countries.

Provide reward insights and recommendations to support workforce planning, recruitment and retention strategies.

Prepare remuneration reports, dashboards, costings and modelling to support decision making at senior management and Board / Remuneration Committee levels.

Benefits & Program Management

Manage the administration and review of employee benefit programs across all regions, ensuring they remain contemporary and valued.

Partner with P&C Business Partners in local markets to support renewals, vendor relationships, benefit communication and employee queries.

Support the design and continuous improvement of recognition programs and performance-linked reward frameworks.

Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory

Serve as a trusted advisor to P&C Business Partners, Finance, Payroll and Business Leaders on remuneration matters.

Support communication and training materials to improve reward literacy among people managers.

Support in preparing papers, presentations and commentary for senior leadership and relevant committees when required.

Qualifications and Skills

• 5+ years experience in Reward / Remuneration & Benefits / Total Rewards.
• Experience supporting multi-country reward frameworks or working across geographically distributed workforces.
• Strong analytical skills and advanced capability in Excel (modelling, pivot tables, lookups).
• Familiarity with compensation survey methodologies and job evaluation.
• Ability to interpret employment legislation, tax implications and governance requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex reward concepts clearly.

Corporate Responsibilities Environmental & Health & Safety

• Ensure Annual Training is completed as required.
• Review Annually & Comply with all Company policies related to H&S and Environmental Management Systems
• Report all/any breaches or accidents/near misses immediately when discovered.