Senior Reward Lead

Posting date:	19 December 2025
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	18 January 2026
Location:	Bedford, MK42 9ab
Company:	Reed Talent Solutions
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	MaPS01054-354316

Summary

Senior Reward Lead

£60k per annum

Bedford

Permanent

Hybrid Working

Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Senior Reward Lead. This role offers you the chance to make a significant impact by leading the delivery and supporting the continuous improvement and digital transformation of MaPS’ reward and benefits strategy, ensuring it is competitive, equitable, and aligned with organisational objectives. You’ll provide expert advice on pay, benefits, and recognition, supporting employee engagement and retention, and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and best practice.

You’ll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing.

Role Overview

The Senior Reward Lead will report directly to the HR Data Insights & Reward Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for:

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the implementation and embedding of Reward Principles in line with MaPS’ values and business goals, including developing a benefits strategy.
• Assist with the annual pay review process, including pay modelling, proposal development, approvals, and implementation.
• Oversee the administration of pay structures, benefits schemes, and recognition programs.
• Manage benefits contracts and ensure effective provision and communication of benefits to employees.
• Provide expert advice to senior leaders and HR colleagues on all reward and benefits matters, acting as an escalation point for colleague queries.
• Collaborate with external providers and internal stakeholders to deliver effective benefits and wellbeing programmes.
• Ensure all reward and benefits practices comply with legal requirements and internal policies.
• Monitor and report on reward metrics, trends, and the effectiveness of reward initiatives.
• Undertake job evaluation exercises to support salary reviews and pay review cycles.
• Provide mentorship, support, and professional development to direct report and wider People and Culture team.

You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience.

To excel in this role, you will need to demonstrate:

• Proven experience in reward and benefits management within a complex organisation, preferably with Civil Service or Public Sector experience.
• Strong knowledge of UK pay legislation, reward frameworks, and good practice.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• CIPD qualification (Level 5 or above) or equivalent experience.

Desirable:

• Experience supporting in-house payroll.
• Experience designing and implementing total reward strategies.
• Familiarity with HR systems and data analytics tools (e.g., HiBob, Power BI).
• Advanced analytical skills, including pay modelling and data interpretation.

About Us
The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is based in Bedford, in a recently renovated modern office. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to become an integral part of a dynamic organisation, working to help people across the UK.

At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting, and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves with our values:

• Caring
  We care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform.
• Connecting
  We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections.
• Transforming
  We are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.

Our Inclusive Working Environment
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds. We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity, and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”

Our colleague and ally networks encompass LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health, ethnicity, and diversity.

What We Offer

• Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
• Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary)
• Interest-free loan for season tickets for buses and trains
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
• Life assurance scheme
• Give as you earn scheme
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
• Enhanced family and sick pay
• Paid volunteering (2 days a year)
• Recognition Scheme
• Discounts portal to numerous retailers

Flexible Working
At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. As standard, we work on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and our headquarters in Bedford will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs, but personal and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Career Development
In MaPS, we take career development seriously. We actively encourage and support applications from our existing MaPS colleagues. However, we do follow the Civil Service Commissioner recruitment principles, which means that you will be required to participate in a full, open, and fair process.

Reserve List
If you are successful at interview, we operate a reserve list where your details will be held for up to 6 months. Should a vacancy come available in that time with the same essential criteria, reserve list candidates will be offered that position with no further assessment required.

Application Process
The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Money and Pensions Service via email: recruitment@maps.org.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.

Job Reference: MaPS01054

Close Date: 06/01/2026