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.