Job Introduction
As we continue our mission to make people and nature happy through re-inventing chocolate, we’re looking for a Reward Partner to join our People & Organisation Team on a 12-month fixed term contract basis.
As Reward Partner, you will manage and deliver the strategy behind how we recognise and reward our people. You will champion a fair and meritocratic approach to compensation and benefits, using data-led and insight-driven methods to guide decision making. Partnering with stakeholders across the organisation, you will lead the delivery of our year-round reward calendar, supporting over 2,400 colleagues across Retail, Central Functions, Manufacturing and Distribution.
As well as a competitive salary and a range of company benefits including private healthcare cover, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and Company pension contributions, you’ll receive 50% discount on all products, and a 70% discount for you and your guests when you stay at our Rabot Estate hideaway on the paradise island of Saint Lucia.
Here at Hotel Chocolat, we've adopted hybrid working. You’ll join us on site for 3 days a week to engage and collaborate as a team and with our stakeholders, and for the other two days - you can work from wherever you like! Stakeholders for this role are mainly based at our on-site locations in Royston (Hertfordshire) and St. Neots (Cambridgeshire). While you can generally choose which site you'd like to work from, you will need to travel to our Royston site for stakeholder meetings when required.
What you’ll be doing….
- Support the reward strategy and work with colleagues in People & Organisation (P&O), Finance, and Payroll to get the fundamentals right.
- Partner with key stakeholders across the wider P&O and Payroll function to ensure the team is set-up to support Reward initiatives.
- Partner with the Executive team and Directorship team, as well as Reward associates and stakeholders at our parent company, Mars Inc.
- Understand how the business operates and analyse reward business needs in line with future strategy.
- Deliver the annual pay review process, including effective communication & engagement to the business area directors, finance, payroll, and P&O Business Partners.
- Manage the benefit offering & renewals including the necessary communication to all parties involved.
- Ensure all aspects of reward are focused on diversity, equality, and inclusion.
- Advise on key employment legislation related to pay and provide input to Senior Leader relationships to enable appropriate changes to policy.
- Own and manage our role levelling framework, conducting regular Willis Towers Watson benchmarking and market pay research.
- Provide coaching and training to less experienced colleagues.
- Provide thought leadership on Reward and Recognition across the organisation.
- Provide regular updates such as equal pay, gender pay etc as required by law and audit.
Who you are…
Essential
- Strong knowledge and experience of Compensation and Benefits best practice.
- Practical knowledge and experience of the Willis Towers Watson compensation framework.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to create and manage complex formulas, utilise pivot tables and efficiently manipulate large datasets to support business decision-making.
- Strong attention to detail, accuracy and thoroughness.
Desirable
- Ability to identify, analyse and resolve problems logically and systematically and make recommendations.
- Good external networks across retail, manufacturing and distribution to enable trends to be anticipated and reacted quickly to.
- Strong business acumen with an ability to link business strategy to people practices; ability to apply critical analysis and judgement when reviewing activities.
- Knowledge of legal and regulatory environments.
Who are we?
We’re one of the UK’s favourite premium chocolate brands, with a range of products spanning luxury gifts, alcohol and our pioneering drinking chocolate system, the Velvetiser™.
A cacao pod takes years to grow – it can’t be rushed if it’s going to be just right for our products. The same can be said for Hotel Chocolat, which originally started as a mint production company before we realised it was luxury chocolate that we were really passionate about.
Now, we’re market leaders in the industry. What began as an online-only business grew to over 140 stores across the UK, and we’re still growing… Today, we’re multi-category, multi-channel, and multi-territory, and our customers, colleagues, cacao farmers and suppliers all benefit from the success we make together.
To learn more about us and read about our People Pledge – our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion – click here: hotelchocolat.com/uk/engaged-ethics/our-people.html