Rewards & Benefits Project Lead

Rewards & Benefits Project Lead 📍 Luton | Hybrid (1-2 days a month in the office) Salary: £51,000 Contract: 12 Month FTC Reports to: Head of Rewards & Benefits 💡 The Role A pivotal project-led reward role responsible for delivering key reward and benefits initiatives across a complex healthcare organisation. You’ll lead the design, standardisation and implementation of job structures, pay frameworks and benefits programmes, ensuring fairness, compliance and commercial alignment. Working closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams, this role balances cost control with employee value to drive engagement and retention. 🛠️ Key Responsibilities Project Delivery * Lead end-to-end delivery of reward and benefits projects * Develop project plans, timelines, risks and governance * Coordinate HR, Finance, Operations and external partners Reward & Benefits * Support standardisation of job structures, pay and benefits * Lead or support job evaluation implementation * Conduct market benchmarking and reward analysis Stakeholder Management * Partner with senior clinical and non-clinical leaders * Facilitate workshops, consultations and feedback sessions * Manage external suppliers and consultants Data & Reporting * Analyse workforce and reward data to inform decisions * Produce clear reports and recommendations for senior leaders * Evaluate impact post-implementation 👤 The Ideal Candidate * Proven experience delivering reward, compensation or HR projects * Strong knowledge of reward frameworks, job evaluation and benchmarking * Confident managing complex stakeholders at senior level * Strong analytical, reporting and project management skills * Experience within healthcare or regulated environments desirable * Familiar with HRIS and payroll systems Interested? Apply today! 🌟 JGA Recruitment Group Ltd ("We") are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply. We are also committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are a specialist payroll, HR & Reward recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business). These statements together with our privacy notices set out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us