Head of Reward
We’re looking for a strategic and experienced Reward Professional to lead our Compensation, Benefits, and Wellbeing agenda. You’ll shape our reward strategy, ensure competitive and equitable pay practices, and deliver high‑quality programmes that support both our people and our business goals.
How You’ll Make an Impact:
Compensation Strategy & Management
- Design and deliver a competitive,market‑aligned compensation framework, including salary structures, job evaluation, and the annual review cycle.
- Oversee short‑ and long‑term incentive programmes, provide expert guidance on compensation decisions, and ensure pay equity and market competitiveness.
- Build and maintain compensation models to support organisational planning and data‑driven decision‑making.
Benefits & Wellbeing
- Oversee the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of healthcare, pensions, voluntary benefits, and wellbeing initiatives, ensuring they remain competitive, cost‑effective, and aligned with employee needs.
- Manage external benefit providers, lead the annual renewal process, and drive ongoing optimisation of the overall benefits offering.
Compliance & Governance
- Ensure all reward programmes comply with relevant legislation and regulatory requirements.
- Lead pay‑transparency and equal‑pay reporting.
- Maintain strong governance across all compensation and benefits activities.
Data, Analytics & Insights
- Deliver regular reporting and insights on compensation trends, turnover, engagement, and market competitiveness.
- Improve HR systems and processes to enhance data accuracy and reporting capability.
- Provide clear, actionable insights to senior leadership.
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Partner with Finance on budgeting, forecasting, and cost modelling.
- Work closely with HRBPs and Talent Acquisition on organisational design, job architecture, and offer decisions.
- Communicate reward programmes clearly and effectively across the business.
What You Bring:
- Proven experience in compensation and benefits, with a strong understanding of reward frameworks, benchmarking, job evaluation, and relevant employment legislation.
- Strong analytical and modelling skills, with the ability to translate data into clear insights and recommendations.
- Confidence working with and influencing senior stakeholders, building credibility quickly across the organisation.
- Experience in global reward operations, familiarity with HRIS platforms, and relevant professional qualifications (e.g., CIPD, WorldatWork) would be highly advantageous.
Wellbeing & benefits
Your wellbeing matters to us. That’s why we offer benefits designed to help you recharge and thrive, including:
- 27 days Annual Leave (4 days used for the festive closure) plus Bank Holidays
- Holiday Buying scheme
- Medicash plan, Wellhub, Cycle to Work scheme
- Private Medical Insurance at corporate rates
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Discounts Benefit Hub
- 3 Development days
- 2 Charity days per year
- Pension Scheme
- Early Friday Finish at 4pm
Personal growth
Learning and opportunity is at the core of what we do - and that applies to you too!
You’ll have the unique opportunity to develop your skills on our QA authored courses in the latest tech (you’ll get 3 training days/year to do this). You can also delve deep into our world-class digital learning content on a variety of tech and business topics. Orperhaps you’d like to enrol on a Degree or Masters programme to enhance your skillset or learn new things.
Our people
We are an equal opportunity employer, focused on promoting a welcoming and inclusive environment. We embrace diversity, welcome applications from all candidates and aim to support the career growth of everyone. This means no matter what your gender, age, ethnicity, beliefs, or sexual orientation, or if you are disabled or a carer, we welcome you and the different perspectives you bring to our diverse family. We’re proud of the progress we’ve achieved over the last few years to build an inclusive culture and celebrate our diversity.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee that all applicants with a disability who meet the role criteria will progress to the next stage of the process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.
A little about QA
At QA, we believe the future belongs to organisations that are able to learn, master and apply new skills at pace and scale. As the largest tech training company in the UK and the fastest growing in the US, we partner with 96% of the FTSE and most of the Fortune 500. We have served over 4,000 customers and 1+ million learners in the last 3 years.
Our Mission:
We teach the critical AI, technology, digital and Human skills needed to transform and succeed in a changing world.We do this through tailored learning programmes that connect learning across an organisation, create continuity for learners, and feature collaborative, cohort-based modalities to apply skills at pace and at scale. Our unique end-to-end learning solutions draw from deep expertise across Apprenticeships, Instructor-led training, Self-paced Learning and Blended Learning.
You can find out more about us at https://www.qa.com/about/careers/
