Compensation & Benefits Lead
The Compensation & Benefits Lead within the Total Rewards team supports the delivery of the organisation's global compensation, benefits, wellbeing, and recognition programmes. This is a specialist, individual contributor role where expertise and analytical support are provided to ensure reward practices remain competitive, equitable, compliant, and closely aligned with talent and business objectives.
Working within a highly collaborative HR function, the role partners closely with Finance, Payroll, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders across multiple geographies to deliver reward initiatives that enhance employee attraction, retention, and performance. This is an opportunity to play a hands-on role in major global projects, including HR technology implementations, organisational redesigns, and reward harmonisation initiatives, while directly influencing strategic workforce decisions through data-driven insights.
- Supporting the annual compensation review cycle, including salary increases, bonus planning, and incentive administration.
- Supporting the design and delivery of the reward strategy as well as providing expert advice on compensation, benefits and reward policy.
- Conducting market benchmarking and compensation analysis using external salary surveys to maintain competitive salary structures and job architecture frameworks.
- Supporting the management and annual renewal of employee benefits programmes across multiple countries while managing key vendor relationships.
- Support the development of recognition and incentive programmes across the assigned business line.
- Producing regular reporting, analytics, and dashboards on pay, benefits and benchmark data to identify trends, opportunities and risks.
- Monitoring internal pay equity and supporting global pay transparency, gender pay gap, and regulatory reporting requirements.
- Participating in global reward projects, process optimisations, and change management activities to enhance the employee experience and value proposition.
- Ensuring all reward programmes comply with legal, regulatory, and governance requirements while maintaining absolute data integrity across systems.
- Proven experience in Total Rewards, Compensation & Benefits, Reward (required).
- Proven experience supporting end-to-end annual compensation review cycles (required).
- Experience with job evaluation methodologies and familiarity with market data providers such as Mercer, WTW, Korn Ferry, or Radford (required).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to interpret complex numerical data (required).
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and reward data analysis alongside practical experience working with HRIS platforms and reporting tools (required).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships across HR and business leadership (required).
- Strong attention to detail and the utmost discretion when handling highly confidential information (required).
- Experience working within a multinational or matrix organisation with exposure to global compensation and benefits practices (nice-to-have).
- CIPD qualification or an equivalent professional HR accreditation (nice-to-have).
- Technical experience with HR platforms like Hi-Bob, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, or Oracle HCM (nice-to-have).
- Hybrid working - 3 days per week at the office, with flexibility for 2 days at home.
- Workation – Take your job on an adventure with our Workation benefit for up to 4 weeks per year (T&Cs apply).
- 28 days of paid leave, plus all public and bank holidays in England.
- Pension contributions matched up to 6%.
- Comprehensive healthcare - BUPA coverage, including pre-existing conditions, plus a cashback plan for dental, optical, and other treatments.
- Wellbeing allowance - £250 annual allowance for you to invest in your health and wellbeing (T&Cs apply).
- Free onsite parking, complimentary snacks and drinks, Monday breakfasts, and Friday lunches.
- Regular opportunities to attend sporting events throughout the year, plus a quarterly team budget for even more fun.
- Support for growing families - Up to 6 months of full pay for maternity leave.
- Cycle-to-work scheme and gym discounts.
LeoVegas Group is a Swedish mobile-first iGaming company founded in 2011, headquartered in Stockholm with its main operational hub in Sliema, Malta. A pioneer of mobile casino, it operates online casino and sportsbook products across regulated markets through brands including LeoVegas, BetUK, Expekt, Pink Casino and GoGo Casino. In 2022 the group was acquired by MGM Resorts International and now serves as MGM's international online-gaming arm, having previously been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.