Reward Manager, Management

Reward manager

Contract:

12-month fixed-term (potential for further opportunity)

Hours:

Mon-Fri, 9-5 with flexibility Salary: £75K - £85K per annum (pro-rata)

Location:

fully remote - ad-hoc national and international travel Interview: 2 virtual stages

Start Date:

ASAP  A leading global pharmaceutical organisation is seeking a highly skilled Reward Manager for a fixed-term contract, offering the flexibility of fully remote working with occasional business travel. This pivotal role will see you at the forefront of strategic people initiatives, focusing on equity programme design, sales incentive harmonisation, job architecture, and organisational design. You will play a crucial part in preparing the company for new European and UK Pay Transparency regulations, ensuring compliance while supporting business transformation and growth.

The position offers an attractive salary of £75,000 to £85,000 per annum (or circa EUR 110,000), pro-rated for the 12-month term, with potential flexibility based on project delivery and organisational priorities. What you'll do:
As Reward Manager, your day-to-day activities will centre around driving strategic HR projects that underpin the organisation's transformation agenda. You will be responsible for designing equitable reward programmes that align with commercial objectives while harmonising complex sales incentive schemes across diverse markets. Your expertise will be instrumental in reviewing current organisational structures, developing clear job families, grading systems, and transparent career pathways that foster employee engagement.

In addition to these core responsibilities, you will spearhead preparations for upcoming pay transparency regulations in both Europe and the UK-ensuring robust processes are in place for monitoring pay equity and implementing consistent compensation decisions. Design and support the implementation of an equity programme that aligns closely with strategic commercial initiatives across multiple regions. Develop a unified sales incentive framework for Injectables and Energy-Based Devices (EBD), ensuring consistency and fairness across countries.

Collaborate extensively with Finance and Commercial teams to structure performance metrics, payout mechanisms, and robust governance processes. Review existing roles, structures, and organisational layers across all functions and geographies to identify opportunities for improvement. Create scalable job family and grading architectures that provide clarity on career progression pathways throughout the organisation. Define transparent career pathways and progression frameworks that enable employees to understand their development opportunities clearly.

Design an organisational hierarchy that fits the new operating model while supporting business agility and future growth. Provide comprehensive tools, documentation, and principles to facilitate effective job evaluation as needed by various stakeholders. Lead readiness efforts for European Pay Transparency Directive and UK legislation by establishing monitoring processes for pay equity and gender pay gap analysis.

What you bring:

To excel as Reward Manager, your background should include substantial experience managing strategic HR programmes within multinational organisations undergoing transformation. Your understanding of European and UK pay transparency legislation will allow you to guide regulatory readiness confidently. You bring deep knowledge of reward strategy-particularly in designing equitable sales incentives-and have previously developed scalable job architectures using recognised frameworks. Your interpersonal skills enable you to collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders while communicating complex concepts in accessible ways.

Analytical thinking comes naturally to you; you are adept at interpreting data trends related to compensation equity or workforce structure. Proven experience interpreting European and UK Pay Transparency regulations or demonstrated ability to quickly ope rationalise new legislative requirements within a large organisation. Extensive background in designing sales incentives frameworks as well as…