Onsite Compensation & Benefits Specialist

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About the role

  • Compensation & Benefits Specialist at Saab UK focusing on compliant and competitive reward practices. Supporting HR initiatives and payroll transformation projects for a global defense company.

Responsibilities

  • Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of salary structures, grading frameworks, and job evaluation processes.
  • Conduct market benchmarking using salary surveys to ensure competitive and equitable pay practices.
  • Provide analytical support for annual pay review, bonus, and incentive processes, including modelling and cost analysis.
  • Partner with HR Business Partners and hiring managers to provide guidance on pay decisions, offers, promotions, and internal moves.
  • Ensure pay practices comply with UK employment law and internal governance requirements.
  • Manage the day-to-day administration of UK benefits programmes, acting as the key point of contact for benefit providers and brokers.
  • Support the payroll transformation project, working closely with Payroll, HR, Finance, and external vendors.
  • Maintain accurate reward data within HR and payroll systems.
  • Support reward-related projects, including system implementations, benefit redesigns, and policy changes.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a Compensation & Benefits, Reward, or HR role with a strong focus on UK reward practices.
  • Good understanding of UK employment law, HMRC requirements, and pension auto-enrolment.
  • Strong analytical and numerical skills with the ability to interpret and present data clearly.
  • Experience working with HR systems and payroll data.
  • High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
  • Experience supporting pay reviews, bonus schemes, or job evaluation processes (desirable).
  • Experience working with benefits brokers and external providers (desirable).
  • Knowledge of gender pay gap and equal pay reporting (desirable).
  • Experience in a matrix or global organisation (desirable).
  • CIPD qualification (Level 5 or above) or equivalent experience desirable (qualification).

Benefits

  • UK benefits programmes including pensions, private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, wellbeing benefits, and flexible benefits schemes.

Job title

Compensation & Benefits Specialist

Job type

Experience level

Junior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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