Location: Dartford

Permanent, Full-time (Part-time 4 days also considered)

Other titles: Rewards Advisor, Rewards Analyst, Assistant Compensation & Benefits Manager

Are you a Compensation/Reward professional looking to work with an experienced Reward team across a large employee group? Then join a team who are at an exciting stage of design and implementation of a new total reward strategy.

About the team

Our Reward team is a high performing team who form a key part of the overall People (HR) function. The contribution the team makes helps shape Laing O'Rourke's teams by creating competitive packages to attract and retain top talent across our organisation.

As well as pay, the team shape and manage our company's benefits strategy as well as providing global mobility support.

What will you be doing?

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with experience in Reward, with robust analytical abilities and a drive to help shape and implement pay strategy. The primary focus will be on a new job evaluation system, pay analysis and benchmarking.

Duties include:

* Support in development of a new pay and total reward strategy.
* Assist with job evaluation, evaluating new and existing roles for appropriate job families, levels and salary ranges.
* Assist with analysis of external market data to benchmark roles to ensure compensation package remain competitive.
* Supporting in the successful delivery of the annual salary review, as well as promotion, merit and market adjustment requests.
* Conduct in depth analysis during the annual salary review to guide and support compensation decisions.
* Analysis of compensation data to create regular, ad-hoc and formal reports for the team and internal stakeholders. In particular support the preparation of regulatory disclosures such as gender pay gap and ethnicity pay gap.
* Provide support to the Reward Manager & Head of Reward with the implementation of total reward strategy, policy and practice.

Essential Technical Capabilities

* Experience with an analytical job evaluation system.
* Advanced understanding of Microsoft Excel
* Comfortable drafting documents in Word and PowerPoint

Desirable capabilities

* Good awareness of GDPR requirements
* Experience with SuccessFactors
* Knowledge of global mobility requirements desirable.
* Experience of common employee benefits

If you have experience in reward management, possess advanced analytical skills, and are self-motivated with good organisational skills then this could be the job for you. The position will be based out of our Dartford office and prioritises time with our people.

About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

Please be aware that the business has a Christmas shutdown period. Please bear with us on your application as the team will be in contact after the 13th January.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please get in touch.