Graduate, Business

Job Title:
Graduate:
Reward Graduate

We’re looking for bright and committed graduates who will bring energy, new ideas and a fresh perspective to help us become the recognised leader and transform the construction and engineering industry.

As a Reward Graduate you will play a key role in supporting our Reward and Data team within the People function. This team is responsible for shaping and delivering Laing O’Rourke’s remuneration, benefits, and recognition strategies. We design, implement and maintain competitive pay structures, manage our employee benefits offering, and ensure that our reward frameworks remain fair, market-aligned, and future-ready — helping to attract top talent and motivate our employees.

Our data analysis supports the whole function and wider business to inform better data-led decision making. In this role you’ll gain exposure to a variety of reward projects, data analysis and reward initiatives, providing a strong foundation for a career in Reward.

• Provide informed advice to Reward and Benefit queries from stakeholders across the business.
• Help promote awareness and understanding of employee benefits and policies through communication campaigns.
• Support with job evaluation, evaluating new and existing roles for appropriate job families, levels and salary ranges.
• Assist with analysis of external market data to help benchmark roles to ensure compensation package remain competitive.
• Analysis of compensation data to create ad-hoc reports for the team and internal stakeholders.
• Support and learn from data analyst in analysing and presenting data from across the business to inform decision making. Opportunities to learn Power Bi skills.
• Assist with monitoring benefit utilisation to ensure offerings are cost-effective and aligned with employee needs.
• Support with utilising data and employee feedback to discover trends, identify gaps, and explore opportunities to enhance the benefits offering.
• Assist with new benefit implementation.
• Help maintain the Reward and Benefits areas of our Intranet.

Dartford

Any

Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) desirable

We are looking for graduates who meet the following criteria:

• Studying a degree course with a clear route to relevant professional accreditation
• Your degree classification should be 2:2 or higher
• Entry degrees will be listed within each of our graduate vacancies and differ from role to role
• Strong numeracy and literacy skills
• Eligible to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship
• Experience using Microsoft Excel, including functions such as VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, pivot tables, and data cleansing techniques
• Familiarity with data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar (desirable)

Our graduate programme is designed to embrace and develop your capabilities. Most importantly, you will be encouraged to continue learning throughout your career. You will be stretched, challenged and supported by a business that views your personal development and the achievement of professional accreditation as a priority.

Our programme will give you the practical experience, technical learning and professional development while being part of the some of the most exciting construction and infrastructure projects in the UK.