Senior Manager – Total Reward

Job Description:

Salary: Competitive per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday

Location: Hybrid, 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 7th of May 2025

In a nutshell

At Virgin Atlantic, we are passionate about attracting and retaining top talent. We are looking for a visionary leader to join our Reward and Wellbeing team as the Senior Manager – Total Reward. This role is key to driving our Total Reward agenda and ensuring we have the right proposition, products, and spanet positioning.

As the Senior Manager – Total Reward, you will support the VP Reward and Wellbeing to drive forward and deliver the Total Reward plan. You will work collaboratively across the People team and wider Senior Leadership Group to define, develop, and execute the Total Reward agenda.

This role reports to the VP Reward and Wellbeing and sits within the Reward and Wellbeing department. You will collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team, People Leadership Team, Finance, Trade Unions, and external partners.

Day to day

Support the VP Reward and Wellbeing to develop long-term Total Reward strategy and plans.
Provide critical, strategic thinking, analysis, and ideas to deliver the desired business outcomes.
Maintain spanet awareness to continually review current Total Reward plan and recommend adjustments to improve competitiveness.
Prepare effective documents (e.g., presentations, board papers, analysis) to support Reward decision making and delivery.
Partner with the business to design and recommend pay and Reward structures.
Support the VP Reward and Wellbeing in the preparation for Remuneration Committee and executive pay recommendations.
Manage and deliver end-to-end cyclical and ad hoc senior leader benchspaning and reviews.
Oversee delivery of strategic Reward projects and team Plan on a Page.
Ensure the Reward and Wellbeing team stays connected to external partners, trends, and insights.

About you

Proven experience as a Reward leader in complex, global organisations.
CIPD Qualified or equivalent generalist HR grounding across multiple disciplines.
Excellent strategic and critical thinking skills with advanced analytical skills.
Experience in delivering significant change programs and executive pay, including demonstrable experience of effective design of both short and long term incentives
Strong levels of self-motivation and ability to work effectively autonomously.
Experience in negotiating and managing a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Proven working experience in use of PowerBI, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint.
High level of drive, enthusiasm, tenacity, and resilience.

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Be yourself

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitmentfly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.

Job Ident #: 2744

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en

Virgin Atlantic uses a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft and operates to destinations in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Asia from its main hub at London–Heathrow, and its secondary hub at Manchester

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Job Info

Location

Crawley , England, United Kingdom

Type

Permanent

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en