Reward and Benefits Manager

At Carter Jonas we're seeking a strategic and commercially minded Reward & Benefits Manager based in our Peterborough Office.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a key role within our People & Performance Team, driving reward transformation, enhancing employee experience, and ensuring our reward framework supports long-term business success.

We are proud to offer a wonderful working culture, a competitive salary and good annual leave offering, coupled with meaningful flexible benefits including salary sacrifice Electric car scheme, holiday purchase of up to 5 extra days, health cash plans, hybrid working, cycle-to-work scheme.

Working within a Partnership is something truly special, offering a level of collaboration, shared success, and long-term commitment that sets it apart from more traditional corporate structures.

In addition, we welcome applications from those seeking flexible or agile working arrangements.

What You'll Be Doing

As Reward & Benefits Manager, you will:

• Lead the development and implementation of our reward strategy and roadmap.
• Drive reward transformation initiatives, including job architecture, career frameworks, pay structures and governance.
• Oversee annual salary reviews, bonus and incentive programmes, market benchmarking and pay equity analysis.
• Design and deliver competitive reward and benefits packages that support attraction, retention and performance.
• Lead our benefits and wellbeing strategy, ensuring a compelling and inclusive employee offering.
• Champion the use of technology, automation and data-driven decision-making across reward processes.
• Implement and optimise reward, compensation and people technology platforms.
• Ensure reward governance, compliance and reporting meet legislative and best practice standards.
• Manage pay gap reporting and reward-related policies and controls.
• Build strong relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders across the business.
• Provide insightful analysis and commercial advice to support strategic decision-making.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Significant experience in Reward & Benefits management, ideally within a professional services or partnership environment.
• Experience implementing job/ pay architecture or career framework projects. Development of reward scheme design and benchmarking to balance costs, drive engagement and enable performance
• Proven track record of leading reward strategy, transformation and change programmes. Able to influence leadership and outline a compelling business case
• Experience implementing reward planning, compensation or people technology solutions.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills. Able to convey the insights and story behind the data for a non-technical audience
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing abilities.
• Strong IT skills and attention to detail.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organisational and time management capabilities.
• A collaborative team player with a customer-focused approach.

Desirable Experience & Qualifications

• Experience supporting Partner remuneration frameworks
• Job Evaluation experience/credential e.g. Hay/Radford / Mercer / PayScale or similar
• Good understanding of Salary Sacrifice, Benefits Providers and Platforms
• Experience with HRIS, compensation planning or people analytics platforms.
• Professional reward or benefits qualifications / CIPD

Why Join Us?

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead and shape a modern reward function, influence senior leadership decisions, and help build an engaging, high-performing workplace where people can thrive.

Ready to make an impact? We'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help us create a reward strategy that drives success for our people and our business.

Up to £60,000 plus car allowance

Pension

BUPA

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Flexible benefits including cycle to work, health checks, life insurances, discounts