Rewards Manager, HR​/Recruitment

Total Rewards Manager

Department: Human Resources

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Leamington Spa

Employees need to know they're rewarded fairly. Benefits need to work for people's real lives. And the data underpinning those decisions needs to be accurate, consistent, and ready when it matters.

Bright is a PE-backed B2B SaaS business of approximately 400 employees, operating across Ireland, the UK, and India. As we scale, reward has become a strategic priority that requires dedicated focus.

This role has been created to meet that need. You’ll own the reward and reporting function, bringing structure, rigour and strategic focus.

You’ll work closely with the CPO, the Head of People Operations & Partnering, and our Finance team — and you'll be the trusted expert people come to when they have a question about their pay or their benefits.

At Bright, we are powering the digital practice of tomorrow – today.

We deliver products that help accountants, payroll bureaus, and businesses across the UK and Ireland work smarter and win more. Our innovative solutions and outstanding customer experiences enable our customers to run their businesses efficiently and serve their customers brilliantly.

We believe understanding is the difference between working and winning.

• A compensation benchmarking framework that gives managers and the CPO clear, defensible answers to pay questions.
• A smooth salary review cycle — well-prepared, well-communicated, and delivered with confidence.
• Benefits that employees understand and actually value — with measurable improvement in awareness and utilisation.
• A reporting suite that gives the CPO, ELT, and Rem Com accurate, consistent data on demand.
• EU Pay Transparency obligations met on time and with confidence.
• Payroll liaison running smoothly with Finance, with no gaps in accuracy or compliance.

• Lead the operational delivery of the annual pay review cycle — building merit models, preparing manager guidance and Rem Com materials, and coordinating with HRBPs to execute across the business.
• Lead compensation benchmarking across Ireland, the UK, and India, maintaining working knowledge of how pay legislation and practice differ across jurisdictions.
• Support job evaluation and role levelling, providing market reference points for new and evolving roles.
• Develop and maintain pay bands and salary structures, with support of wider team.
• Prepare Rem Com data packs, salary review scenarios, and supporting materials in advance of each Rem Com meeting.
• Advise managers and HRBPs on pay decisions, acting as a trusted internal expert rather than a policy enforcer.
• Maintain a governance framework for reward decisions, clear approvals, audit trails, and version control.
• Lead Bright's EU Pay Transparency compliance programme, working with the CPO, Legal, and HRBPs to meet reporting obligations.
• Conduct and maintain pay equity analysis across all jurisdictions, identifying and flagging gaps for remediation.

• Own benefits administration across all jurisdictions — renewals, provider relationships, and ensuring documentation is current and accessible.
• Lead the annual benefits review, benchmarking the Bright offering against market and making evidence-based recommendations.
• Drive benefits awareness and utilisation across the business.

• Own the compensation and benefits data infrastructure — ensuring HiBob holds clean, accurate, audit-ready reward data at all times.
• Build and maintain a core reporting suite covering pay, benefits, headcount, and turnover — for CPO, ELT, Rem Com, and investor reporting.
• Audit and elevate existing People reporting — identifying gaps, improving consistency, and using AI tools to increase the speed and quality of insight delivered to leadership.
• Produce accurate, structured data extracts and analysis on demand for leadership, audit, and investor review.
• Support the annual People budget planning process and manage the reward and benefits cost base on an ongoing basis.

• Ensuring compensation changes are accurately reflected,…