Head of Reward

Desired Skills: cipd,employment law,HR,Reward

Role Summary

In this role you will be responsible for shaping and leading the reward strategy, to attract, retain, engage and motivate employees while remaining consistent with the values of the organisation. You will lead all compensation, benefit, and pension programmes working with the Chief People Officer and executive leadership team. You will be responsible for reward policies and remuneration practices including the design and delivery of new reward initiatives and revising current programmes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the reward strategy to include salary benchmarking, pension management, benefits management and annual compensation events such as bonus and salary review.

• Manage Group insured benefits, including private medical, Group Income Protection, Life Cover liaising with the Pension Secretary.

• Conduct formal and informal market surveys, undertaking analysis of the compensation market and proactively sharing insight into compensation trends.

• Lead the core cyclical reward activities including annual salary review and bonus payments.

• Manage benefits change projects including working with brokers to manage benefits packages, creating benefit tools and material, and streamlining processes.

• Design and implementation of compensation and benefits structures in line with emerging legislation and adhere to internal compliance and governance standards.

• Manage all executive reward processes, proposals and prepares Remuneration Committee papers

• Develop job evaluation, grading and benchmarking activities, external survey data collection and analysis.

• Hire, lead, engage, and develop members of the reward team.

• Build and maintain strong relationships across the business to provide excellent compensation and reward expertise whilst challenging and influencing the business appropriately to ensure alignment with the culture and values.

• Act as escalation point and back up to the Payroll Manager on monthly and quarterly payrolls

• Provide leadership and direction on relevant internal and external audits and 2nd sign off on data for Financial Statements and Annual Report.

• Lead activity to streamline and automate reward processes in the HR information system to increase efficiency and optimise system investment and colleague experience.

Experience/ Skills required for the role

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a Senior Reward role, or Senior HR role with a strong track record in Reward.

• CIPD qualified. Third level degree in Human Resources, Finance, or business-related discipline.

• Experience in managing outsourced providers including pensions, benefit, and payroll.

• Thorough understanding of Irish employment legislation and awareness of HR best practice.

• Experience using HR management systems – Success Factors experience an advantage.

• Highly competent with all general workplace software (Email, Word, Powerpoint, Excel).

• A methodical approach to completing a variety of tasks concurrently with a high attention to detail.

• Ensure a collegial, positive, and professional culture among the team and ability to communicate effectively.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise discretion.

• Strong numerical, verbal, and written communication skills.

• Be able to demonstrate creative and innovative approaches to enhancing processes and ways of working.

***Please note our client cannot assist with any visa sponsorship and candidates must have the correct visa to live and work in Ireland***