Senior Reward Advisor

Do you love that no two days are the same? That's one of the many reasons we enjoy working in HR at Severn Trent... Still need more?

We’re passionate in helping people with their own career path, we’re proud to support our senior leadership teams to deliver our people strategy and we really care about the 10,000 employees who deliver one of life's essentials to 8 million customers daily. People are at the heart of what makes this company great and we're committed to helping people be the best they can be and making Severn Trent a truly awesome place to work.

If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you. There really is something for everyone here.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW  

We have an opportunity for you to join us as a Senior Reward Advisor, sitting within our HR Operations division. As a key member of the busy Reward and wider HR team, you’ll be critical in helping shape and deliver the company’s reward and benefit framework, ensuring that we’re recognising and rewarding the value that our brilliant employees bring to the company.

In your new role, you’ll build strong working relationships with our HR Business Partners and Resourcing teams, working with the business to advise on the most effective reward and benefits packages. You’ll also build a thorough understanding of people plans, business challenges and goals to help deliver appropriate and pragmatic Reward advice to senior leadership and management teams.

Through your technical knowledge, collaboration, and great stakeholder management skills you’ll be trusted by the company as a subject matter expert in Reward and Benefits and will act as custodian of the reward framework, effectively challenging, advising, and influencing to ensure that reward solutions are fair, consistent and appropriate for business needs.

Sound like you? Then read on.

Your key accountabilities in helping us will be:

Build strong, collaborative, and resilient relationships across HR and the wider business to be a trusted and valued subject matter expert providing timely, relevant, and commercially appropriate Reward solutions.
Lead or support the delivery of annual Pay and Bonus reviews, Total Reward Statements, and Benefits and Recognition programmes, working with internal and third-party stakeholders.
Complete job evaluation and salary benchmarking activities to ensure we are both competitive to the external market and consistent across the business.
Support and provide expert reward advice to the business during change programmes as required (including organisational design and TUPE).
Work in conjunction with key stakeholders to develop appropriate pay frameworks, ensuring stakeholder engagement, affordability, governance, and market alignment.
Support the Reward Manager to deliver strategic change in the Reward and Benefits framework.
Provide analytical Reward insights to the business based on both internal and external data.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE 

We’re looking for a candidate with excellent attention to detail, highly analytical, and proven senior stakeholder management skills, experience of HR Systems (ideally SAP / SAP Success Factors) would be an advantage.

Additionally, you’ll need to possess experience in providing advice and support to management on all Reward related enquiries. Project management skills for both small and large projects within demanding timescales would be beneficial.

Previous reward related experience, ideally from a medium to large sized organisation with a varied roles and levels would be preferrable.

Working here isn’t just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent, and we’ll reward you for it too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities where we live.

With that in mind, here are just some of our favourite's perks that you’ll get being part of the Seven Trent family:

28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,250 per annum based on company performance)
Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
Dedicated training and development with our ‘Academy’
Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
Family friendly policies
Two volunteering days per year

WHATS NEXT?

We can’t wait to hear from you.

At Severn Trent, you’ll be joining a culture that cares, one that works together to achieve, grow, and develop. And when it comes to our employee engagement scores – they’re some of the highest of energy and utility companies globally, and we believe that is down to our wonderful culture, created by our wonderful people.

That why’s when it comes to how we work, we want to keep up those special in-person moments, to keep our culture alive. But don’t get us wrong, we understand the flexibility that working remotely can bring. Which is why when it comes to how we work – you’ll usually find us in the office, but when you need to work remotely, we’re here for it, when you need it – if suitable for your role.

Please note, this advert may close earlier if we recieve a high volume of applications.