Title:  Reward Specialist

Sanctuary is one of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and community services. With around 13,000 employees, we maintain a culture where diversity is valued and talent is nurtured and rewarded.

Reward Specialist

Worcester based with a balance of home and office working

£53,994 to £56,836 per year

35 hours per week

Due to progression within the team, Sanctuary Group have an opportunity for a talented Reward Specialist to join our Reward function, within the HR Team, to work across all aspects of pay and recognition.  Reporting into the Reward Manager you will be responsible for developing and delivering relevant pay strategies that address the needs of your nominated business areas, ensuring alignment to our values and current and future business strategy.

As one of three Reward Specialists you will be reviewing, building on and developing new pay arrangements for your nominated business areas, which include Care and Students. Coming up with innovative ways to balance the pressures of ensuring our reward arrangements help to attract and engage high quality staff; are compliant and respond to the changing needs of a growing business, in an affordable way.

The role of Reward Specialistwill include:

• Undertake pay planning, design and delivery for nominated business areas, ensuring affordability, business buy-in and effective risk management
• Delivering robust end-to-end reward processes, measuring their effectiveness and proposing changes where required, including executing the annual pay review cycle
• Working with HR colleagues you will deliver the reward aspects of restructures and TUPE transfers ensuring the successful integration and application of new arrangements
• Operating an effective framework to underpin reward and recognition decisions, whilst incorporating best practice and latest thinking as appropriate
• Building positive, effective working relationships with colleagues to deliver coherent, risk managed reward and recognition activity and ensure policies, processes and plans are operated appropriately
• Understanding the impact of legislation and external influences that impact on Reward, identify data trends, patterns, issues and key messages including Gender Pay and Equal Pay reporting, analysis and interpretation

Skills and experiences:

• A proven track record within a similar Reward role with the ability to demonstrate practical experience of developing innovative pay structures and solutions, ideally in a low pay and/or Group setting and implementing these effectively
• Experience of managing the integration of TUPE transfers and new business
• Demonstrable experience of managing pay risk in a multi-business environment
• Practical experience of developing proposals and implementing annual pay processes
• Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to adapt and effectively communicate and build influential relationships with stakeholders and employees at all levels
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills with attention to detail and strong excel skills
• Experience of working in roles where you were required to make pragmatic, decisions that positively impact the business
• Experience of job evaluation methodologies, ideally Korn Ferry

Why work for us?

One of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and commercial services, Sanctuary employs more than 14,000 people and manages over 116,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.  

Our Benefits    

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

• 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays
• A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
• Life Assurance
• Employee Volunteering scheme
• Employee Advice Service including counselling
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Voluntary health plans  
• Employee discounts
• Wellbeing support and tools
• Employee recognition scheme
• Role salary is £41,659 with an additional policy allowance of £12,335 per annum (rising to £43,851 with an additional policy allowance of £12,984 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)

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Closing Date: 28 January 2024

We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.

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Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers. 
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Sanctuary Group is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.