Reward Specialist

Job Description - Reward Specialist (17134)

Job Description

Reward Specialist ( 17134 )

Description

Reward Specialist

We are easy

Jet – a FTSE listed, £multi-billion low-cost airline that serves tens of millions of customers every single year. If you’re reading this, you have probably already been an easy

Jet customer, and you’ll know that there is no more iconic (or Orange!) travel brand in Europe.

We fly more than 1,207 routes, connecting 38 countries across Europe, and employ more than 18,000 colleagues. We’re on a mission to make low-cost travel easy – and whatever your role here, you’ll connect millions of people to what they love using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

What makes us easy

Jet? Our Promise Behaviours - we are Safe, Bold, Welcoming and Challenging. Four Behaviours. One Spirit. One easy

Jet.

• Have experience in reward, compensation or pay management within a large and complex organisation.
• Enjoy owning critical annual reward activity, including year end salary and bonus review cycles.
• Have advanced Excel, data analysis and Workday skills, with confidence working with large datasets, complex calculations and reward reporting.
• Can be in our fantastic Luton head office 2–3 days per week.

Our Reward Team plays a key role in shaping how we attract, retain and reward our people. Working closely with HR, Payroll and business stakeholders, the team delivers fair, competitive and commercially focused reward programmes that support our people strategy and business goals.

As Reward Specialist, you'll be a subject matter expert within the Reward Team, taking ownership of some of our most critical annual reward deliverables while helping to evolve and improve how reward is delivered across easy

Jet.

You’ll own and project manage key reward processes, including the annual salary and bonus review cycle, year end reward activity, equal pay analysis, statutory pay reporting and salary benchmarking. You'll provide expert guidance to stakeholders, use Workday and advanced Excel to ensure the integrity of reward data and frameworks, and help strengthen reward governance, controls and continuous improvement across reward policies, processes and systems.

• Owning, leading and project managing the annual salary and bonus review cycle from planning and data preparation through to delivery, governance and post cycle review.
• Coordinating key year end reward activity, ensuring timelines, data, approvals and communications are managed effectively.
• Managing the development and maintenance of salary ranges, pay frameworks and reward practices.
• Leading the annual equal pay review and providing meaningful analysis and recommendations.
• Owning statutory pay reporting requirements, ensuring compliance, accuracy and robust controls.
• Acting as the lead for job architecture governance and maintaining job framework data within Workday.
• Managing salary survey submissions, salary benchmarking activity and external market data interpretation to provide actionable insights.
• Providing reward expertise and guidance to HR teams, Finance, Payroll, senior leaders and business stakeholders.
• Using advanced Excel, Workday reporting and data analysis to maintain reward systems and data that support benchmarking, job evaluation and pay review activity.
• Delivering reward projects and identifying opportunities to improve processes, governance and controls across BAU reward activity.
• Building strong cross functional relationships and influencing stakeholders to support fair, commercial and well governed reward decisions.
• Supporting and coaching colleagues on reward related queries and best practice.

• Strong reward or compensation experience gained within a large, complex organisation.
• Hands on experience of annual salary and bonus review cycles, year end reward activity, benchmarking, salary surveys and reward governance.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills, including working with large datasets, complex calculations, modelling, reconciliation and quality checking.
• Strong Workday experience, ideally within reward, reporting, compensation…