Interim Transformation

Location: Hybrid / Ilkley LS29 8FL
, UK

Job Type: Fixed term / Full-time

Sector: Human Resources | Compensation & Benefits

Salary: Competitive salary

We're looking for an experienced transformation professional to join us for a six-month period and help deliver some of the most important building blocks for our next stage of growth.

Over the past year we've invested significantly in our People foundations. The strategy is clear. The challenge now is turning that work into something that is fully embedded, consistently applied and ready to support a scaling business.

This role will be responsible for implementing and embedding our career frameworks, pay structures and reward governance, shaping our Employee Value Proposition, and providing the insight and planning needed to support future workforce and reward decisions.

Alongside this, you'll deliver key People integration activity and contribute to a number of strategic business priorities.

This is a high-impact role with significant visibility across the organisation.

Reward, Career Frameworks & Governance

• Implement and embed career frameworks and pay structures across the organisation.
• Integrate frameworks into recruitment, performance, progression and talent processes.
• Implement salary ranges informed by market benchmarking.
• Review pay positioning and recommend approaches to addressing identified market gaps and disparities.
• Embed a sustainable reward governance framework and future market review cycle.

Employee Value Proposition

• Lead the development of the company's Employee Value Proposition.
• Align career development, reward, growth opportunities and employee experience into a coherent talent proposition.
• Create a roadmap for ongoing EVP development.

Workforce Planning & Insight

• Assess manager confidence in applying career and reward frameworks.
• Identify adoption risks and capability gaps.
• Develop reward and workforce planning scenarios to support 2027 budgeting and workforce decisions.
• Provide data-driven recommendations to support leadership decision-making.

Equitable Approach

• Review reward and progression outcomes to identify and mitigate unintended bias.
• Ensure frameworks and governance processes support fair and equitable decision-making.

Integration & Strategic Leadership

• Lead the People integration workstream and associated change activity.
• Provide governance, stakeholder management and delivery oversight across the programme.

• Senior-level experience leading reward, workforce planning, organisation design or people transformation initiatives.
• Expertise in career frameworks, job architecture, salary structures and reward governance.
• Strong commercial judgement and experience balancing market competitiveness with affordability.
• A track record of translating strategy into practical, measurable outcomes.
• Experience leading business change, integration or transformation programmes.
• The credibility to influence and challenge senior leaders constructively.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, supported by a data-led approach to decision-making.