Pay, Reward and Benefits Specialist

Working on behalf of a Local Authority, Aatom Recrtuiment has a very exciting opportunity for a Pay, Reward and Benefits Specialist. This is a permanent position with a very attractive salary.

For this role it is essential that you have Local Authority Experience.

Key responsibilities

• To provide strategic and technical subject matter expertise, advice, guidance and management on pay, reward and benefits practice.
• To lead on the design and ongoing delivery of pay and grading structures, benefits strategy and reward and recognition schemes.
• To lead on the provision and application of job evaluation, Labour Market Intelligence and recruitment and retention strategies for hard to fill roles, including use of Market Factors.
• To lead and provide strategic direction to the development of pay, performance management, reward, recognition and benefits strategies, policies and systems, ensuring the adoption of best practice.
• To act as the client’s expert on remuneration, providing high quality consultancy advice to HR and others within the client on pay, reward and benefits ensuring practice is fair and equitable and in line with the reward strategy, local, regional and national agreements.
• To lead on pay negotiations (as delegated) including reporting to the Executive and associated committees such as Audit and Scrutiny Committees as appropriate and production and presentation of e.g. the client’s pay policy statement, gender pay gap data.

Requirements

• Substantial experience of leading on pay and reward matters within a complex, unionised organisation, (including strategy development, negotiations and implementation).
• Experience of leading on the delivery of advice, guidance, both within the HR service and to others within the client on remuneration, overall reward management; employee benefits and strategic management of the job evaluation scheme.
• Monitoring, analysis and interpreting HR management information to inform pay and reward strategies
• Knowledge of local authority pay arrangements including pension provision.
• Ability to understand, assimilate, interpret, present and clearly communicate complex information.
• Strong writing and presentation skills to prepare business cases and informational materials on compensation and benefits plans for employees.

If you are interested, please apply or contact Inesa for more information!