Reward Manager

We're looking for an experienced Reward Manager to lead the development and delivery of Midland Heart's reward, benefits and pensions strategy.

This is a specialist, high-impact role combining strategic reward leadership, complex pensions governance, executive-level advice and market insight. You'll play a key role in ensuring our reward offering attracts, retains and engages talented colleagues who deliver excellent outcomes for our tenants.

About the role

Reporting to the Director of People, and working closely with the Executive Team and Remuneration Committee, you'll lead our approach to reward, benefits and pensions, ensuring our offer is competitive, inclusive, compliant and aligned to our values and corporate objectives.

Key focus areas will include:

• Leading the annual pay review process and providing robust advice on pay, benefits, recognition and executive remuneration.
• Developing and managing a market-leading benefits offer that supports wellbeing, financial resilience and colleague experience.
• Acting as Midland Heart's pensions expert, including overseeing governance of a legacy defined benefit scheme through to insurance buyout.
• Using insight, benchmarking and analysis to advise the Executive Team and Board and influence strategic decisions.
• Building trusted relationships with senior leaders, governance groups, providers, auditors and colleagues across the business.
• Managing a specialist Reward Advisor and working closely with People team colleagues to drive continuous improvement across the reward agenda.

About you

We're looking for someone who combines technical excellence with commercial thinking and outstanding relationship-building skills. You'll be comfortable working with detail, influencing senior stakeholders and providing clear, evidence-based recommendations.

You'll bring experience of:

• Leading reward, benefits and pensions in a complex organisation
• Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution pension governance and provider management
• Designing reward strategies that attract, retain and motivate talent
• Executive remuneration
• Pay benchmarking and market analysis
• Working with Boards, Committees and senior stakeholders
• Reward legislation including National Minimum Wage, equal pay, gender pay reporting and pay transparency
• Implementing change and delivering service improvements

Professional membership (such as MCIPD or MCIPP) or equivalent experience is expected.

Who are Midland Heart?

We're one team working together for our tenants; a large and ambitious housing organisation providing more people an affordable place to call home. We welcome people from every walk of life, at every stage of their career. We expect a lot from our people but in return you can be assured of a great place to work, where you will be well rewarded and where great people are able to succeed.

We are proud to say we have recently been named in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work list, within the Big Organisations category (The Times).

Please note - we are unable to accept applications for this role without an accompanying cover letter.

Submit an up to date copy of your CV and cover letter.

The closing date is 23rd August.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. Please feel free to contact us if you would like to discuss any adjustments you might need in order to be successful in this role.