Head of Reward

Willmott Dixon are looking to recruit a Group Head of Reward on a 12 month FTC to drive performance, rigour and simplify complexity in the way our people are rewarded. You'll own reward and reporting end to end, working closely with the CPO and the senior people team and finance. The successful candidate will have strong knowledge of rewards and benefits, project management skills, a passion for working with people and excellent communication skills. This role offers hybrid working; a combination of office-based working in our head office in Letchworth, Herts (3 days per week) and remote/home working as well as travel to other offices as required by the business.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading the annual pay review cycle, from models through to materials and manager guidance
• Owning compensation benchmarking across the business and defining a compensation strategy to attract the best talent and drive performance
• Leading Pay Transparency compliance such as gender and ethnicity pay, working alongside the CPO and Legal
• Conducting pay equity analysis and flagging gaps for remediation
• Owning benefits administration and the annual benefits review across all areas of the business
• Building and maintaining reporting on pay, benefits, headcount and turnover for the CPO and finance

Essential Criteria

• Hands on experience in a rewards/benefits role
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent systems knowledge including HR systems and EXCEL
• Strong project management and planning skills, including attention to detail
• Experience of managing problems and proposing solutions

Desirable criteria

• Human Resource management degree/ CIPD qualification

What We're Looking For

• Strong attention to detail with a genuine commitment to getting things right
• Comfortable with dealing with large amounts of data and able to spot issues quickly
• Tenacious and persistent with a track record to seeing things through to completion
• Naturally curious always asking how things could be done differently or more simply
• Able to cut through complexity and able to find practical solutions
• Able to explain data and reward information in a straightforward way

Additional Information

We reward our people generously with a competitive salary and a market-leading benefits package that gives you flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes but is not limited to, an enhanced pension scheme, discounted or full private medical, life assurance, incentive bonus and a car scheme which will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel. Applicable roles will benefit from a motoring expenditure allowance (MEA) and everyone can access a new generation of low carbon and electric cars via the Willmott Dixon run car leasing scheme.

About Us

With over 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose is beyond profit; delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and solid privately owned business where our people can thrive.

Willmott Dixon was recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 10 "Big" Companies to Work For in 2025, named among the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality in 2024, and ranked in the Top Five of Europe's 1,000 best workplaces by the Financial Times in 2025.

Willmott Dixon is also the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development.