Director - Global Rewards - UK; remote or London​/Peterborough; hybrid

London;
Peterborough;
Work From Home - UK

As the Director, Global Total Rewards at Convera, you will be a hands on leader responsible for the day to day design, delivery, and governance of Convera's global compensation, benefits, and rewards programs.

Reporting into the VP, Total Rewards, Technology and Payroll, this role combines deep technical expertise with strong execution to ensure Total Rewards programs are competitive, compliant, and consistently applied across all regions.

This role is highly operational and delivery focused. You will personally lead compensation cycles, build and maintain models, manage vendors, resolve complex reward issues, and ensure data accuracy across systems. While providing strategic input, the primary accountability is effective execution, governance, and continuous improvement of Total Rewards programs at scale.

• Personally lead and execute annual compensation cycles, including merit, bonus, and incentive programs, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and governance.
• Build, maintain, and refine compensation models, salary structures, and costing scenarios using detailed data and analytics.
• Lead global benchmarking activities (e.g., Radford, Mercer), translating market data directly into updated salary ranges and guidance.
• Partner closely with Finance to validate budgets, forecasts, and compensation spend, resolving variances as they arise.
• Act as the escalation point for complex compensation cases and exceptions.

• Conduct hands on pay equity, pay transparency, and internal parity analyses across regions.
• Identify and address gaps, risks, or inconsistencies, working with Legal, Finance, and People Services to implement corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable compensation and benefits regulations (e.g., EU Pay Transparency, ERISA, statutory requirements).
• Maintain audit ready documentation and evidence for all reward programs.
• Lead the operational management and renewal of global benefits programs across all regions (NAM, EMEA, APAC).
• Own day to day broker and vendor relationships, including negotiations, performance reviews, and issue resolution.
• Review benefit utilisation, costs, and employee feedback to recommend practical improvements.
• Support the rollout of benefits changes and ensure accurate configuration in HR systems.
• Own the end to end design, administration, and governance of global sales compensation and incentive plans, ensuring alignment with Convera's commercial strategy and revenue goals.
• Partner closely with Sales leadership, Finance, and Revenue Operations to implement incentive structures that drive performance while managing cost and risk.
• Build and maintain sales compensation models, quota scenarios, and payout calculations; validate plan mechanics prior to rollout.
• Lead annual and in cycle sales compensation planning, including plan design updates, target setting, and payout approvals.
• Partner with revenue operations and ensure accurate and timely calculation, validation, and payment of commissions and incentives, working with Payroll and Finance to resolve discrepancies.
• Maintain strong governance and documentation for all sales compensation plans, including approval processes, plan rules, and exception handling.
• Monitor plan effectiveness and participant behaviour, using data to recommend adjustments that improve outcomes and minimise unintended consequences.
• Ensure sales compensation plans comply with applicable regulatory, tax, and employment requirements across regions.

• Work directly with People Services and HR Technology to ensure HR systems (including Dayforce) accurately reflect all Total Rewards data.
• Own data quality, configuration, and process flows related to compensation and benefits.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, or standardise Total Rewards processes and lead implementation.
• Produce regular reports and analyses to support leadership decision making and operational oversight.
• Own implementation and updates on the sales compensation tool - Captivate
  
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• Provide clear, practical guidance to managers and employees on compensation and benefits programs.
• Develop and maintain manager tools, FAQs, and guidance to support consistent decision making.
• Support People Services and HRBPs by resolving complex reward related questions and cases.
• Partner with HRBPs ensuring effective communication and change management around all changes in the Total Rewards space.
• Work in close partnership with People Services to ensure smooth execution across the employee lifecycle (onboarding, changes, off boarding).
• Collaborate with HR Technology on system enhancements and data integrity. Partner with Finance, Legal, and Compliance on governance, risk management, and…