Pay Lead-Project Implementation
| Posting date: | 25 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,557 to £66,058 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 July 2025 |
| Location: | Blackpool |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 410391/2 |
Summary
The Strategic Reward Pay Lead plays a pivotal role in shaping and delivering DWP’s future Reward Strategy. This role is responsible for leading implementation of reward projects, ensuring business readiness, ensuring alignment with policy and system requirements, and leading cross-functional collaboration across HR, and wider stakeholders.
Key responsibilities include overseeing project implementation, managing data-driven evaluations to inform strategic decisions, ensuring compliance with equality and data protection standards. The role also involves close collaboration with Pay Lead colleagues, and wider comms and Planning colleagues to ensure seamless delivery, whilst contributing to a high-performing, inclusive team culture. As a member of the Strategic Reward management team, the postholder provides leadership, shares expertise, and supports the delivery of high-impact reward initiatives across the Department.
- Leading and driving forward implementation of reward projects, in support of shaping of the future Reward Strategy for DWP.
- Responsible for business readiness in advance of implementation activities set up in accordance with policies and systems during live running of projects, maintaining engagement with business leads, ensuring projects running to design, and leading any working groups.
- Ensure robust and relevant data collected across the implementation lifetime and driving evaluation of relevant data to support future strategic decisions.
- Own process for any changes to current systems for implementation activity and act as team point of contact to wider HR colleagues.
- Responsible for completion and maintenance of Equality Impact Assessments.
- Responsible for TU engagement on implementation activity.
- Collaborating closely with wider Reward Pay leads.
- Working with planning colleagues to create implementation plans, and ensure these are regularly updated, risks mitigated, data protection impact assessments completed and change load considered.
- Tracking funding and spending.
- Ability to support across other strands of activity as and when required in the small and busy team.
- As part of the management team for Strategic Reward Team, sharing of knowledge and providing leadership to ensure the team is focused on priority activity, actively contributing to the positive and inclusive team culture.
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