Senior Reward Specialist

Location: This role is offered on permanent basis. It is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our offices across the UK.

Step into a key role shaping how our people are recognised and rewarded. As Senior Reward Specialist, you’ll deliver actionable insights, drive reward projects, and provide expert advice to the business. You’ll be responsible for reward analysis, statutory reporting, and process improvements—ensuring data integrity, compliance, and a seamless experience for stakeholders. Make an impact, execute on our reward strategy, and help us build fair, competitive, and motivating reward programmes globally.

What you’ll be doing

• Reward Strategy & Governance: Design and execute reward frameworks, lead key projects, and ensure fairness, competitiveness, and compliance across markets.
• Compensation & Benefits: Support salary and bonus cycles, job evaluation, and benefits programmes; advise on promotions, pay proposals, and job architecture.
• Performance & Incentives: Optimise bonus, sales incentive, and recognition programmes; analyse outcomes to ensure fairness and alignment with business goals.
• Compliance & Risk Management: Maintain governance standards, legal and regulatory compliance, and pay equity reporting.
• Data, Insights & Reporting: Analyse reward data, generate actionable insights, and translate complex information for senior stakeholders.

About you

• Experience in reward/compensation & benefits in a multinational matrix environment.
• Knowledge of reward practices, employment law, and market trends
• Analytical, data-savvy, and confident with tools (e.g. SAP SuccessFactors)
• Strong communicator and stakeholder influencer
• Global reward frameworks, multi-country projects, or organisational change experience is desirable.
• Professional reward qualification (CIPD, WorldatWork, GRP) is a plus.
• Experience of working with the Willis Towers Watson job architecture is desirable.

The extras you’ll get:

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits, you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and private healthcare. In the UK&I, we’ve introduced new Individual and Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause
• We are proud to offer inclusive benefits and programs that reflect the diverse identities and experiences of our employees. Our healthcare coverage includes enhanced support for all individuals, including the diverse needs of trans and non-binary colleagues—such as voice coaching, gender affirmation surgery (including facial surgery), and other medically necessary services. We also provide access to resources and programs tailored to the unique needs of all employees, regardless of gender identity or expression
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all 

We are RS Group:

RS is a global solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers. Our business has operations in three geographical regions – the Americas, EMEA and APAC, supported by global organisations for supply chain, corporate functions, marketing, and product & supplier management.

Our market today is large, fragmented, local in nature and digitally immature. Only a few international distributors serve it, with many regional and local providers, who largely trade offline. We stock over 2,500 supplier brands, 500k products and 61% of our sales are digital.

We are committed to Making Amazing Happen for a better world and our Vision is to become first choice for customer, suppliers, our people, and communities.

RS is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people thrive. We recognise that a diverse and representative workforce is critical to our success, and our aim is to create a business where people can be their true selves. Our employees expect this as a matter of course and it is fundamental to how we attract, develop, and retain the best talent.

In line with our D&I policy, we recruit and develop employees who are the best suited to the requirements of the job role, regardless of gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

Are you ready to explore the possibilities?

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