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UK Reward Manager

Ogilvy London, United Kingdom Job Posted Date: 07/21/2025

About Ogilvy

Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability todeliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities.Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visitOgilvy.com, and follow us on LinkedIn,X,Instagram, and Facebook.

About The Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Ogilvy as our UK Reward Manager. In this newly created role, you'll be a key strategic partner to People Partners, Talent Acquisition, Business Leaders, and Finance. You'll be instrumental in shaping and driving the UK reward strategy, ensuring alignment with Ogilvy's global vision and business objectives. You will be responsible for designing and implementing innovative programs that attract, retain, and motivate top talent, while fostering a culture of performance and inclusivity. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract, offering a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in building our growing Reward & Mobility team and contributing to Ogilvy's long-term success.

What You'll Do

• Lead the implementation and ongoing management of the global job architecture within the UK, ensuring consistent job levelling.
• Facilitate mobility requests for remote working, cross-market hires, and permanent moves to and from the UK.
• Lead the annual compensation benchmarking process.
• Develop salary ranges and educate UK Leaders and HR on how to use ranges to make pay recommendations.
• Lead the semi-annual salary and annual bonus review processes, partnering with and presenting overall costs and executive pay recommendations to UK C-suite leaders.
• Manage UK benefits enrolment, administration, and communication.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to define end-to-end processes for job levelling and creating internally aligned and externally competitive pay packages.
• Develop processes to manage and maintain executive compensation data not captured in Workday.
• Lead UK pay gap reporting (gender/ethnicity/etc.).
• Review the current approach to allowance and incentive plan eligibility and recommend a strategy to adjust where needed.
• Maintain the compliance of the pay governance processes for the UK.
• Provide ad-hoc reward reporting and analysis as needed.
• Partner with UK People Operations, Workday, and Payroll to build additional reporting and data accuracy processes for Reward functions supported by Workday.
• Participate in the regional, Global, and WPP Reward Communities, sharing best practices and leaning into Global Programmes and Projects.
• Design and administer local recognition schemes.
  
  

• You enjoy working in a fast-moving and agile setting.
• Excellent attention to detail with strong written communication skills.
• Strong partnering and relationship-building skills.
• Desire to improve processes and define new approaches.
• Strong experience in UK reward with a global mindset.
• Ability to communicate complexity in simple terms.
• Advanced Excel and analytical skills. Knowledge of Power BI is a plus.
• Strong organisational abilities.
• Experience with job evaluation, benchmarking, market pricing, and building salary structures.
• Knowledge of gender pay gap reporting.
• Experience leading annual/semi-annual salary and bonus review processes.
• Experience partnering with third parties is a plus.
• Confident in data analysis for reports such as paying for performance.
• Ability to work with senior stakeholders.
• Workday experience is a plus.
  
  

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
• Bupa Healthcare (includes Bupa health assessment and menopause support)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption, and Shared Parental leave
• Flexible working policy with core working hours (10 am – 4 pm) and our 3.2 Hybrid Working model (3 days in the office, 2 days at home)
• A 1.5:1 matching pension structure
• Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership plus Dental cover, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool, and annual eye tests.
• Learning and development budgets plus Enhanced and ongoing wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
• Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance x4 salary
• Inclusion@Ogilvy: To foster an inclusive environment, we have our internal groups: Ogilvy Rewired, Roots, Equals, Proud plus Parents and Carers.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  Advertising Services

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