Reward Manager

Hybrid working for our office at One Strawberry Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne and from home

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)

Circa £55, 000 per annum plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Fair pay, great benefits, and making sure our people feel valued. It’s all in a day’s work for our Reward Manager here at Home Group. If you love digging into data, designing reward strategies, and shaping processes that attract and retain brilliant people, then this is the job for you!

Leading a small team, you’ll make sure our pay, benefits, pension provision and recognition schemes are competitive, sustainable and reflect our values. You’ll be our go-to expert on all things reward, working closely with our Human Resources and Development (HRD), Finance, and leadership teams to balance affordability with making Home Group a great place to work.

Typical day as our Reward Manager

• Designing and delivering fair, competitive, and transparent reward and benefits strategies that help attract and retain our brilliant people.
• Managing salary structures, job evaluation, and pay benchmarking to ensure we’re rewarding fairly and competitively whilst staying within budget.
• Overseeing our all-colleague annual pay award and mutual award, informing the discussions through your robust benchmarking and salary data. You’ll ensure it is well-communicated, and that outcomes ensure our colleagues feel valued.
• Bringing reward to life by turning data into insights, making evidence-based recommendations and shaping our total rewards package.
• Keeping a close eye on employment law and pay regulations, staying ahead of changes and making sure we’re always compliant.
• Engaging with key stakeholders, including finance, procurement, leadership teams, and our Joint Negotiating and Consultative Committee (JNCC).

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our colleagues lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!

You have

• Reward, compensation, or benefits management experience with a strong background in designing and managing salary structures, pay frameworks, and benefits packages.
• Project management experience and able to lead reward-related initiatives, such as pay structure reviews or benefits redesign.
• CIPD Level 5 or equivalent, with experience in pay and reward management.
• Knowledge of UK employment law and pay compliance, including gender pay gap reporting, equal pay, and the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
• Job evaluation expertise using methodologies such as Hay, Korn Ferry, NJC, or similar.
• Data analysis and benchmarking skills with the ability to interpret market pay data, conduct internal pay reviews, and use data to make evidence-based recommendations.
• Strong communication skills to engage colleagues and stakeholders, clearly explain reward policies and support change initiatives.

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our Human Resources and Development team, who are a passionate bunch who love what they do and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!

Job details

• Hybrid working from our brilliant office at One Strawberry Lane in Newcastle city centre for a minimum of 2 days per week and the rest from home.
• Full time, 37.5 hpw, flexible working hours. If you need to nip out to get a haircut at lunchtime we're cool with that!

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39 days leave, the potential to buy 5 days leave (subject to criteria), and time off for volunteering!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary
• Enjoy flexible pay with Wagestream, allowing instant access to your earned wages whenever you need it, along with tools to budget, save, and manage your financial well-being.
• Colleagues really matters to us, that’s why we’re the 10^th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Explore our benefits in detail on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Reward Manager, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk