Head of and Recognition

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At Eakin Healthcare
, we put patients at the heart of everything we do. We are a family‑owned global medical device company with a proud heritage of innovation and care. We deliver innovative solutions across Ostomy, Respiratory, and Surgical therapies, along with our Respond home delivery service. Founded over 50 years ago, we now have a team of over 700 dedicated people across three UK manufacturing sites, 12 international sales and distribution centres and export to over 60 countries.

We’ve been recognised as a Great Place to Work®Best Workplaces in Healthcare and Best Workplaces for Women
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At Eakin Healthcare, we’re united by one mission:
working together to improve lives – just as we’ve been doing for over five decades.

We’re good at what we do – come and join us and you can benefit from:

• Blended Working
• Bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 28)
• Option to buy holiday days
• Health Cash Plan
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Referral Scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Free Parking

The Head of Reward and Recognition will lead the development, delivery, and governance of the organisation's reward, compensation, and benefits strategy globally and in particular in the UK, Europe and Japan. The role is responsible for ensuring that our reward frameworks and practices are competitive, aligned with business objectives, compliant with regulatory requirements, and support the attraction, motivation, and retention of top talent within a fast‑paced growing medical device environment in keeping with our ambition to be a Great Place to Work.

This role will be based at either our Cardiff, Coleraine or Comber office on a hybrid working basis.

• Design and implement a market‑leading global reward strategy particularly for the UK, Europe and Japan regions aligned with global policies and business objectives.
• Act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership and the Remuneration Committee, providing insights and recommendations on compensation, benefits, and incentive design.
• Ensure consistency and alignment of reward practices across multiple jurisdictions while adapting to local market, regulatory, and cultural requirements.
• Support the preparation and presentation of materials for Remuneration Committee meetings.
• Ensure compliance with global regulatory frameworks and local legislation including emerging pay transparency requirements.
• Lead the annual compensation cycle across the organisatoin (salary reviews, bonus, incentive schemes), ensuring governance, fairness, and alignment with performance, optimising process experience and colleague understanding.
• Manage benchmarking and market intelligence to maintain competitive pay and benefits structures ensuring internal equity with reference to job grading/evaluation.
• Lead the design and implementation of commission and recognition schemes and ensure effective communication and buy in.
• Oversee the design and delivery of benefit programmes across multiple countries, ensuring cost‑effectiveness and employee value.
• Work with local HR teams to assess and optimise global benefits offerings, ensuring alignment with market practice and employee needs within cost budget, ensure benefits information is easy to access and up to date for colleagues.
• Support global wellbeing initiatives and harmonisation of benefit plans where appropriate.

• Ensure all reward structures comply with local employment law, tax requirements, and regulatory standards and in particular ensure compliance with pay transparency legislation.
• Manage executive compensation in line with shareholder expectations and remuneration committee requirements.
• Support reporting and disclosure requirements for remuneration across the regions.

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