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About the Role
The Reward Director is responsible for shaping, delivering, and enhancing the organization's global reward strategy. This role ensures reward programs support business performance, attract and retain diverse talent, and promote a fair, competitive, and engaging employee experience. The Director provides strategic leadership across pay, incentives, reward governance, recognition, grading, and benchmarking, collaborating with senior leaders, People & Culture, Finance, and external partners to drive informed reward decisions and sustainable workforce investment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development, governance, and continuous improvement of reward programs, focusing on annual pay review, bonus, AIP, and SIP.
- Design and enhance reward frameworks, policies, pay structures, and incentive programs.
- Lead key annual compensation activities and oversee reward processes for high-quality delivery and governance.
- Propose, model, and track pay and AIP budgets in collaboration with Finance.
- Lead reward benchmarking and market analysis activities to assess competitiveness and inform strategic recommendations.
- Own or contribute to reward aspects of grading, job evaluation, and job architecture.
- Act as a trusted reward advisor to senior leaders, People & Culture, and Finance partners.
- Prepare and deliver reward analysis, recommendations, and governance materials for senior stakeholders.
- Lead and drive the implementation of reward schemes, managing project teams and team members.
- Balance global consistency with local business and market requirements while driving continuous improvement.
- Lead, develop, and support members of the Reward team and manage relationships with external reward providers.
- Contribute to reward inputs for Remuneration Committee-related papers and matters.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading Reward, Compensation, or Total Rewards programs within a complex, multinational environment.
- Proven success designing and implementing reward strategies, programs, and frameworks.
- Strong expertise in compensation management, incentive design, annual reward cycles, benchmarking, grading, and reward governance.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with senior leaders, People & Culture, and Finance to influence strategic decisions.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, including experience in reward budgeting, forecasting, modeling, and data-driven decision-making.
- Advanced analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- Proven ability to lead complex projects, manage change, and deliver results across global and matrixed organizations.
- Experience leading, developing, and empowering high-performing teams.
- Demonstrated commitment to fairness, equity, inclusion, and ethical decision-making.
Skills
- Reward strategy
- Compensation management
- Incentive design
- Annual reward cycles
- Benchmarking
- Grading
- Reward governance
- Financial acumen
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Modeling
- Data-driven decision-making
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving
- Critical-thinking
- Communication
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing skills
- Project leadership
- Change management
- Team leadership
- Talent attraction
- Talent retention
- Employee engagement
- Internal equity
- Market competitiveness
Experience Level
- Significant experience leading Reward, Compensation or Total Rewards programmes within a complex, multinational environment
About the Company
- Colt's reward approach supports business performance, internal fairness, employee engagement and effective talent attraction and retention.