Senior Manager, Total Rewards

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Manager, Total Rewards based in United Kingdom. We are looking for an experienced Total Rewards leader to drive the strategy, design, and delivery of global compensation, benefits, equity, and recognition programs within a fast-growing international technology organization. In this strategic and hands-on role, you will ensure that reward practices remain competitive, equitable, transparent, and compliant across multiple countries. You will collaborate closely with People, Finance, and Legal teams to shape compensation strategies, optimize benefits, and support critical business decisions. A key focus will be bringing AI and advanced analytics into compensation strategy, market benchmarking, job architecture, and pay decision-making. You will also lead the annual compensation cycle, develop scalable frameworks, and manage global vendor relationships. This is an opportunity to influence the employee experience and organizational growth while building innovative, data-driven Total Rewards practices in a remote-first, AI-forward environment. Accountabilities - Define and lead the global Total Rewards strategy across compensation, benefits, equity, and recognition, ensuring alignment with business objectives and talent attraction, retention, and motivation goals. - Develop and implement an AI-forward roadmap for compensation strategy, using artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to improve decision-making, efficiency, consistency, and transparency. - Lead the annual compensation cycle, including merit increases, promotions, and equity planning, in close collaboration with People Business Partners, Finance, and business leaders. - Own and continuously improve global job architecture, leveling, grading frameworks, and the job catalog, ensuring consistency as the organization scales.

- Leverage AI and data-driven methodologies for job evaluation, role-to-level mapping, calibration, and detection of inconsistencies or level drift, while maintaining appropriate human oversight. - Lead global market benchmarking and compensation analysis, using platforms such as Radford, Pave, or equivalent tools to develop competitive and data-backed recommendations. - Apply AI and automation to accelerate compensation benchmarking, pay modeling, scenario analysis, rewards analytics, and employee communications. - Manage global benefits programs and relationships with external vendors, including Employer of Record (EOR) providers, benefits brokers, and equity administration platforms. - Oversee EOR relationships, monitoring service quality, costs, compliance, and the overall employee experience across different regions. - Ensure compliance with pay transparency, pay equity, and local compensation and benefits regulations across all operating jurisdictions, particularly within the European Union and the United States. - Partner with Finance to manage compensation budgets, equity pools, and total rewards expenditure, ensuring accurate forecasting and effective cost management. - Advise People Business Partners, recruiters, and hiring managers on compensation offers, pay decisions, and exceptions, balancing market competitiveness, internal equity, budget constraints, and talent priorities. - Evaluate and introduce new AI and automation solutions while ensuring responsible, explainable, and legally compliant use of technology in rewards processes. - Lead, coach, and develop the Total Rewards team, establishing clear priorities, supporting professional growth, and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. - Act as a trusted strategic advisor to senior stakeholders, translating complex rewards data into actionable business recommendations.