Hybrid Senior Reward Manager

at Arrow Global Group

• Job title: Senior Reward Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Manchester, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Reward Manager managing global compensation initiatives aligned with business objectives. Focused on equity, transparency, and strategic oversight across various locations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of the Group’s annual salary review, bonus and year-end reward processes, ensuring alignment with business strategy and culture.
• Provide strategic oversight of quarterly bonus accruals, modelling scenarios with Country HR Directors to inform Group-level bonus pool recommendations.
• Direct the Group’s benchmarking strategy, including provider selection and peer group definition, to ensure competitive and sustainable market positioning.
• Own the Group-wide year-end delivery plan, ensuring high-quality analysis and recommendations for Executive and RemCo decision-making.
• Translate complex data, modelling and insights into clear strategic recommendations influencing senior leadership and RemCo outcomes.
• Own and evolve the Group job grading framework, ensuring consistency, scalability and alignment with organisational growth and talent needs.
• Oversee global salary frameworks, including pay ranges and progression principles, maintaining internal equity and external competitiveness.
• Provide governance and modelling oversight for long-term incentives and associated systems, ensuring accuracy, integrity and compliance.
• Act as the senior reward expert on pay transparency, equal pay and regulatory reporting, ensuring Group compliance and best-practice governance.
• Lead the design and delivery of Total Reward Statements and broader reward communication strategies to enhance employee understanding and engagement.
• Partner with the Performance & Reward Director on reward strategy for M&A activity, integrations and organisational change.
• Serve as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, bringing thought leadership on global reward trends, emerging practices and technology-enabled reward solutions.

Requirements

• Extensive technical expertise across all aspects of Reward, including short- and long-term incentives, policy, governance and market positioning.
• Experience owning job architecture, job evaluation methodology (e.g., WTW), and enterprise-wide grading frameworks.
• Proven capability in leading complex benchmarking strategies, interpreting global compensation data (e.g., WTW, McLagan, Aon) and crafting strategic insights.
• Highly advanced analytical and financial modelling skills, with strong Excel capability and the ability to present complex data clearly for senior decision-makers.
• Strong understanding of pay transparency requirements and statutory reporting.
• Demonstrated success operating across multi-country, multi-business organisations, ideally within Europe (including Italy, Portugal, Netherlands).
• Outstanding communication and influencing skills, with experience advising Senior Leadership.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and lead through change, providing clarity and direction.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development
• Bonuses