Reward and Benefits Partner

In this critical role as Reward and Benefits Partner, you will be responsible for leading the execution of the Harrods reward and benefits strategy. You will have influence across the organisation and partner with specific business areas from a compensation perspective. You will take the lead in ensuring our approach to reward is appropriate for the retention and attraction of top talent. You will manage our benefits programmes and pro-actively contribute to the development of our total reward strategy as part of our Employee Value Proposition. You will be passionate about Harrods and driven to create exceptional employee experiences.

About us

Harrods is reimagining every aspect of the store to ensure we remain the world’s leading luxury emporium. People-led change is at the forefront of this transformation. We are driving forward high-profile, strategic HR initiatives and ensuring our people-related activity is executed exceptionally. Our Reward and Benefits strategy is a critical element of our HR strategy, so this role is both high profile and high impact across our organisation.

About you

You will act as a Reward Subject Matter Expert and business partner, with a depth of understanding that enables the provision of tailored, comprehensive advice on all reward matters. You will be able to develop compensation strategies which are distinct for parts of the business, but with the breadth of thinking to unify the strategy across the organisation when appropriate.

You will understand job families, grading structures, and market benchmarking, having experience on implementing and embedding these models in large organisations. You will understand pay and bonus cyclical processes and have in-depth knowledge of running these cycles through HR systems.

You will have detailed knowledge of benefits and be passionate about keeping abreast of the external landscape and industry best practice. You will be able to manage third parties and negotiate valued contracts with our vendors. You will take a lead in the design and delivery of our communication and engagement strategy from a benefits perspective, driving the uptake of existing benefits and ensuring the toward reward offering is understood and highly valued.

You will be able to prepare high quality papers on Reward and Benefit matters and be proficient in presenting and engaging to an Executive and senior audience.

More specifically you will have:

• Strong business acumen with an ability to link business strategy to people practices.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to get into the detail while understanding the bigger picture.
• An inquisitive and challenging mind, with an interest in questioning and improving the “as is”.
• Advanced Excel skills and the ability to work with and manipulate large data sets comfortably.
• Ability to manage and deliver in parallel multiple projects and tasks across a broad range of areas.
• Strong communication skills, experience of liaising with and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Project management and delivery capability

Our promise to you

Culturally, we value difference and individuality. Your ideas and energy are going to shape every aspect of our people success in your division, but we’re not going to dictate how you achieve these results. Rather, we will give you the freedom to imprint your operating style on the role and help us create a remarkable, magical and memorable business for our customers.

As well as the support of a highly respected team of HR experts, you will find our business transformation creates a stimulating day-to-day environment and opens up a wealth of long-term career potential. Alongside this, you can look forward to an excellent package of benefits. This includes a company pension, flexible working, 25 days’ holiday and your birthday off, up to 33% in-store discount and a season ticket loan.

Uniquely You

At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive. What makes you unique makes us exceptional.

If you want to know more our people and our culture, search #TogetherHarrods on LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram

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