Interim Reward Project Manager
| Posting date: | 16 March 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 March 2026 |
| Location: | City of London, London, EC2 6DN |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 4775989_1773651366 |
Summary
We're looking for a forward‑thinking Reward Project Manager to shape and deliver a modern, inclusive, and market‑competitive reward offering. You'll lead a multi‑phase transformation across compensation, benefits, incentives, and recognition-enhancing fairness, reinforcing customer‑trust behaviours, and elevating the frontline employee experience.
What you'll do
- Lead the end‑to‑end redesign of our reward strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and cultural ambitions.
- Review and modernise pay structures, benchmarking compensation and designing clear progression models.
- Oversee a full review of employee benefits, particularly for frontline colleagues, improving relevance, inclusivity, and value.
- Simplify and redesign bonus, incentive, and recognition programmes to drive the right behaviours and boost engagement.
- Use data and modelling to assess equity, model scenarios, and track the impact of reward changes.
- Partner with senior leaders, People Partners, and vendors to deliver high‑quality outcomes and effective change communications.
What you'll bring
- Proven experience in Reward, ideally with frontline or operational workforce exposure.
- Strong technical expertise across pay, benefits, incentives, and recognition.
- Experience delivering complex reward redesign projects end‑to‑end.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder‑management skills.
- A commitment to fairness, inclusion, and culture‑shaping reward design.
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