Reward and Recognition Coordinator
| Posting date: | 12 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £35,000 to £40,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 January 2026 |
| Location: | Canary Wharf, London, e14 4pu |
| Company: | Nest Corporation |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 58889062 |
Summary
Role Overview
The Reward & Recognition Coordinator will provide administrative and analytical support to the People and Culture team and the business. They will work closely with the Head of Reward & Organisational Effectiveness ensuring the smooth delivery of reward and benefit deliverables. This includes supporting the implementation of new benefits, managing the recognition scheme, assisting with benchmarking exercises, and contributing to the annual pay and bonus review process.
The minimum criteria for this role are:
• Strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and comfortable working with data.
• Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively.
• Previous HR or reward experience is helpful (but not essential) – enthusiasm and willingness to learn are key.
Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.
Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different.
To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
- hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work compressed hours
- job share
Click here to see the benefits we offer at Nest.
For more information about our recruitment process click here
Directorate/Department Overview
The People & Culture team creates the environment and drives the enablers that ensure we have the right capacity, capability and culture to successfully deliver on our Corporate Strategy while staying true to our purpose. The team is led by the Chief People Officer (ExCo) with this role coming under Performance & Delivery led by the People Director.
Organisational Overview
Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.
Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme.
We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.
Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.
If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: careers@nestcorporation.org.uk.
The Reward & Recognition Coordinator will provide administrative and analytical support to the People and Culture team and the business. They will work closely with the Head of Reward & Organisational Effectiveness ensuring the smooth delivery of reward and benefit deliverables. This includes supporting the implementation of new benefits, managing the recognition scheme, assisting with benchmarking exercises, and contributing to the annual pay and bonus review process.
The minimum criteria for this role are:
• Strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and comfortable working with data.
• Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively.
• Previous HR or reward experience is helpful (but not essential) – enthusiasm and willingness to learn are key.
Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.
Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different.
To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
- hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work compressed hours
- job share
Click here to see the benefits we offer at Nest.
For more information about our recruitment process click here
Directorate/Department Overview
The People & Culture team creates the environment and drives the enablers that ensure we have the right capacity, capability and culture to successfully deliver on our Corporate Strategy while staying true to our purpose. The team is led by the Chief People Officer (ExCo) with this role coming under Performance & Delivery led by the People Director.
Organisational Overview
Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.
Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme.
We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.
Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.
If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: careers@nestcorporation.org.uk.
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About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.