Reward Partner

Department: Pay & Reward

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Head Office, Chelsea House

DescriptionAs Reward Partner, you will lead and deliver the key Reward policies, processes, activities and projects.  As a Reward expert your work will support the attraction and retention of talent on the Island.  You will be accountable for Reward activity such as company car management, annual Pay/Bonus reviews, benchmarking activity and Gender Pay Gap Reporting (UK and ROI). \n
You will partner with key members of our People team, providing expert advice and delivering a robust benefits offering to our employees. You will also line manage a Reward Administrator for support in the day to day provision of benefits to our Islanders. \n
Key Responsibilities\n\nMonitor the efficiency and impact of existing benefits matrix, making recommendations for change that are competitive and cost-effective \nDesign and maintain our salary structure, including salary bands and ranges for different job positions; ensuring all compensation-related policies and frameworks meet legislative requirements\nOverseeing effective NMW uplifts, annual pay reviews, annual bonus cycle and LTIP processes including scheme rules, pay modelling and communications\nEnsure the River Island car fleet is safe, appropriate, cost efficient and meets our ESG goals; owning vendor relationships to drive competitiveness; ownership of policy maintenance\nAccountable for Gender pay reporting for UK and ROI; ensuring accurate timely reporting, and the creation of insightful, commercially-focused reports\nProvide insight into future reporting requirements, ensuring appropriate capability and systems requirements are in-place to facilitate this eg Ethnicity pay gap reporting  \nReview and maintain sufficient data provision for external role benchmarking (eg Alan Jones, Radford, WTW)\nOwn supplier relationships and ensure competitive renewals for all benefits providers including but not limited to PMI, flu jabs, benefits platform, pensions broker\nIdentifying opportunities for continuous improvement to processes, systems and reports to improve automation and drive efficiencies\nMaintain effective relationships with stakeholders across the business and group including pensions, finance, tax and internal audit when delivering changes to reward provision\nManage, support and guide a Reward Administrator to provide day-to-day support for the People Team and individuals across all benefits and compensation provisions\nIdeal skills and experience:\nExcellent stakeholder management and influencing skills\nDetailed market knowledge of reward landscape\nKnowledge of reward-related legislation and reporting obligations\nStrong attention to detail and advanced analytical skills\nAble to write succinct reports drawing out cost benefits and people impacts\nAdept at using HRIS (Oracle experience would be advantageous) and reporting\nUnderstanding of key employment taxes relating to reward and benefits e.g. BIK\nExcellent organisational skills with the ability to balance multiple priorities\nLine management capability\n

About Us We’re a much-loved brand with an exciting future. Our Islanders are a diverse bunch of bright, talented people who love working together – and are proud of the work they do.  Progression here can take you in all kinds of directions. This is what a career at River Island is like. And this is where yours starts.

This role is based at our Head Office in West London.