Role profile

Osborne Clarke have an exciting opportunity to join us in a newly created Senior Reward Manager role due to growth in our HR department. Working closely with our Head of Reward & Benefits, you will be responsible for managing the overall Reward processes and ensuring the efficient and accurate running of the UK's monthly payroll. This is a permanent role that can be based out of either our Bristol or London office, working on a hybrid basis. We are happy to consider applicants looking to work either 4 or 5 days a week.

What You'll Do

• Reward - Pay Review, Bonuses and Profit Share
• Support the Head of Reward & Benefits on reward strategy, delivering policy analysis, budget modelling, and ongoing market benchmarking.
• Lead annual salary, bonus, and profit share cycles with the Head of Reward & Benefits, including internal communications.
• Partner with HR Business Partners, Operations Directors, Service Line Leaders, and Business Services Heads to drive understanding and adoption of OC’s reward frameworks and principles.
• Job Evaluation & salary benchmarking
• Own the Willis Towers Watson (WTW) relationship for salary benchmarking and job evaluation embedding WTW Function/Discipline codes across SelectHR and all JE/benchmarking processes.
• Lead market benchmarking: gather and analyse external data, maintain a central benchmarking repository, deliver timely insights (including for Resource Committee), and support offers, promotions, relocations, and budgeting.
• Manage job evaluation and the one-firm grade structure: conduct evaluations on request; manage JE trackers; uphold governance, audit trails, and stakeholder education; and support HRBPs/line managers and related HR initiatives.
• Assure data quality: audit HR data, resolve anomalies, quality‑check entries, monitor weekly reports, and flag recurring issues.
• Drive enablement projects: centralise and maintain role profiles with Recruitment/HRBPs/line managers; transition reward projects to BAU; and support the Head of Reward & Benefits to deliver OC’s 2030 reward strategy.

• Payroll
• Working closely with the Payroll Executive, have oversight of monthly payroll accuracy and efficiency; advise and act as an escalation point.
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of SelectHR and SelectPay data.
• Manage escalated critical service issues alongside the Payroll Executive and lead on OC’s relationship with SelectPay.
• Lead third‑party Reward/Payroll relationships and ensure service delivery meets standards.
• Act as escalation point for complex pay and HMRC matters.

• Management Information
• Lead external market data collection and analysis for salary and reward benchmarking.
• Support statutory reporting; ensure timely, accurate data (e.g., Gender Pay Report).
• Own OC’s contributions to salary surveys and ad‑hoc analyses.
• Analyse management information trends to design targeted interventions.
• Reward data lead: build user‑friendly dashboards and reports delivering integrated insights to inform decisions.

• Cyclical projects/ad-hoc responsibilities
• Provide clear payroll information across channels (welcome emails, intranet) to support employee queries.
• Maintain up-to-date reward and payroll contracts in the firm’s contract management system.

What We're Looking For

As a senior role within the team, we need someone who can demonstrate strong experience and understanding across both reward and payroll from a professional services background. You\'ll need to demonstrate:

• Reward experience that includes; benchmarking, market trends and analysis, job evaluations, running annual processes. Working with reward frameworks, pay policies and principles.
• Experience running payroll (in house and/or third party led) with the ability to manage complex queries escalated by the Payroll Executive.
• Strong project management skills; the ability to handle BAU cyclical activities alongside key reward projects
• Relevant system knowledge such as; HRIS, benchmarking platforms, job evaluation platforms etc
• Experience working with and managing multiple third party providers
• Strong analytical skills with a data-led approach, combined with high levels of attention to detail and accuracy
• Stakeholder management; ability to influence and gain buy-in to proposals
• Ability to interpret market trends, identify potential risk areas and build a strong network of reward professionals. Able to develop and present innovative, practical solutions from these insights
• Strong written and verbal communication, able to communicate findings to a variety of stakeholders

Salary And Benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

Our recruitment process

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making. We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it\'s fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

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Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Human Resources

Industries: Law Practice