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Pay, Reward and Employee Relations Manager

Posting date:	25 March 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	24 April 2025
Location:	Manchester, M2 3AW
Company:	inploi
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	75692183

Summary

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our HR Policy and Pay team as our Pay, Reward and Employee Relations Manager. In this role you will get to work on and influence high-profile areas within DCMS including, but not limited, to the annual pay award, overseeing pay policy and developing our wider employee benefits offer.

As our Pay, Reward and Employee Relations Manager, you will be given a unique platform to continually engage and advise multiple internal and external stakeholders. These stakeholders include colleagues across our HR function, senior leaders, Civil Service HR, internal comms, DCMS Boards & Committees and our recognised Trade Union representatives.

You will also be the primary point of contact and oversee service provision for a number of pay & reward services including the DCMS Rewards scheme and providing a range of pay advice and support to our colleagues.

For this role, you need to be confident in analysing a range of detailed information and data in order to inform decisions, as well having the skill to balance multiple short and long term priorities. You will need to be able to build strong stakeholder relationships quickly in order to share expertise and effectively provide support and advice. Our ideal candidate will have experience of pay & reward policy and processes and will be driven to provide a great service to colleagues.

Job description

As the Pay, Reward and Employee Relations Manager, you will play a key role in developing the DCMS reward strategy, improving our employee offer and managing a critical service to the Department.

Responsibilities will include:

• Day to day management of the DCMS pay and reward policy and systems
• Development and delivery of the annual DCMS Pay award
• Providing expert advice to colleagues
• Co - leading close engagement with trade unions and key employee relations stakeholders
• Supporting teams to monitor and manage departmental reward budgets
• Preparing briefings and updates to senior stakeholders.

This is an opportunity to become part of a busy, fun and collaborative work area, where success is celebrated and innovation is encouraged.

With a strong focus on personal development, and opportunities to gain new skills and experience, this is an environment where people can strive for the best.

Person specification

The idea candidate would have the following key skills and experience:

Essential requirements:

• A keen interest in and understanding of Pay & Reward and Employee Relations within Civil Service Departments or comparable organisations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills which you have used to influence decision making.
• Excellent organisational skills, with an ability to work autonomously and collaboratively, to deliver at pace and prioritise effectively.
• Confidence to provide expert HR advice to stakeholders of all levels.
• Strong numerical understanding, including confidence working with spreadsheets and distilling complex information into briefings for non-HR colleagues and senior leaders.

Desirable skills:

• Experience working in Pay and Reward and Employee Relations roles.
• Experience of modelling and delivering pay awards within Civil Service Departments or comparable organisations.
• A HR professional who is CIPD qualified, or working towards, or willingness to obtain a qualification would be preferable although not essential.

We are running an information session where prospective applicants can find out more about the role. This will be hosted by Chris Brown (DCMS Head of Pay, Reward and Employee Relations), and will take place on Friday 28th March at 12.00pm

The session will be an opportunity to hear more about the role, the team and wider directorate and the department. It will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions.

Please sign up via the link provided in the job advert by 27th March 2025 at 15.00 and you will be sent an invitation.

Please note that the session will not focus on the DCMS recruitment process - please direct any queries that you have on this topic (timelines, reasonable adjustments, onboarding etc) to recruitment.team@dcms.gov.uk

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