Reward Specialist
| Posting date: | 05 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £46,030 to £52,120 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 January 2026 |
| Location: | Birmingham, West Midlands, B4 6GA |
| Company: | National Highways |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6996_1767601327 |
Summary
About the job.
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Reward Specialist to join the HR Reward and Performance centre of expertise (CoE) at National Highways, on an 18-month fixed term contract basis.
As a Reward Specialist, you'll provide accurate and timely support and assistance to Reward and Performance CoE and central HR support teams on reward matters and manage specific reward planning to meet goals, ensuring relevant policies and procedures are followed.
But that's not all, you'll undertake data analysis and modelling activities, in order to derive intelligence and produce recommendations that support the reward and performance teams goals.
- Lead all Reward activities related to projects, and supporting the wider reward team to conclude all related actions accurately and to published timescales.
- Identify and evaluate emerging Reward risks, issues and dependencies within the projects and where necessary develop, agree and implement solutions to overcome these.
- Design and develop reward insights relative to internal and external factors to aid decision making and improve reward processes such as internal benchmarking, market data analysis, and job structures.
- Ensure accurate and timely production of reward reports and develop tools and systems to monitor and report project progress against the market position.
- Work with Senior HR Business Partners and the wider business to understand evolving business resource requirements, participating in or leading (as appropriate) job evaluation assessments.
The role will be worked on a hybrid basis, with a combination of office and remote working. You will be required to attend the Birmingham office at least 2 days per week.
About you.
- Knowledge and experience of using industry standards reward systems, and strong knowledge of MS Office components, especially creating and using complex spreadsheets
- Proven knowledge of benchmarking and reward data analysis tools, including experience of developing business analysis tools for reward.
- Evidence of successful engagement and influence with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, with different technical understanding
- Strong track record of delivering outcomes and achievements, against tight deadlines, in a customer and delivery focused organisation, working as part of a team
- CIPD or equivalent reward experience (desirable)
About us.
Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.
Our HR directorate includes a wide range of services to support our people to be the best they can be, and to enable the organisation to achieve its goals and objectives.
We're fully committed to making National Highways a great place to work. We want an inclusive culture where our people feel informed, motivated, engaged - and always reaching for high levels of performance.
Through our People Strategy we're also building our company's resilience, making it better prepared for the future - and we're always striving to improve our day-to-day services.
External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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