Reward and Benefits Advisor

As our Reward and Benefits Advisor, you’ll play a vital part in shaping how we recognise, reward and support our colleagues. You’ll be responsible for maintaining and updating our job matrix and associated role data to ensure accuracy across grades, pay bands and agreements. Through your expertise in job evaluation using the Willis Towers Watson (WTW) methodology, you’ll help us maintain consistency and fairness in how roles are levelled and benchmarked.

Your analytical skills will come to the fore as you complete benchmarking exercises, support annual pay and bonus review cycles and produce regular reports and dashboards for the People Team and Executive Leadership Team. You’ll also play a key role in legislative pay reporting, ensuring we meet statutory requirements such as Gender Pay Gap and CEO Pay Ratio disclosures with accuracy and integrity.

Collaboration will be at the heart of your work — you’ll liaise closely with your HR colleagues, line managers and internal stakeholders to provide guidance on reward frameworks, pay practices and benefits policies. You’ll also help to drive continuous improvement by supporting projects that enhance governance, strengthen processes and contribute to an exceptional colleague experience across the Society. 

You’ll bring experience from a reward, compensation or HR analytics role within a complex organisation, alongside strong numerical and analytical skills and advanced Excel proficiency. You’ll have a keen eye for detail and a logical approach to managing multiple priorities — ensuring that data integrity, accuracy and fairness remain at the core of your work.

You’ll have a solid understanding of UK reward practices, benefits and employment legislation, and ideally experience using job evaluation methodologies such as WTW or Hay. Your analytical mindset allows you to translate data into meaningful insights and you’re confident in presenting findings clearly to colleagues at all levels.

Above all, you’ll be a trusted partner — discreet, collaborative and aligned with our values. You’ll demonstrate a genuine commitment to helping us deliver fair, transparent and motivating reward practices that make Lincolnshire Co-op a place where people feel valued and inspired to do their best work.

Benefits

In addition to working for a successful co-operative business, we offer our colleagues fantastic benefits, including:

• 30 days annual leave (including bank holidays) (pro-rata)
• Pension scheme (with up to 12% employer contributions)
• Generous colleague discount rates across our family of businesses
• Annual discretionary colleague bonuses to reward you for your hard work
• Free tea and coffee provisions for all colleagues during rest breaks at work

We are an “Investors in People - Platinum” employer, meaning that we have been recognised as one of the country’s top employers, offering progression opportunities to all our colleagues. As your confidence grows, you’ll have the opportunity to build the skills necessary to further progress your career and help to open up future opportunities. Whether you’re thinking of a future with us or looking to develop your skills with a community-focused business, we’ll work together with you to shape your career for the better.