Reward Specialist

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

As a Reward Specialist in our Global Reward CoE, you’ll help shape how Haleon rewards, recognises and enables performance across a global business. You’ll work on high-impact reward programmes — from annual performance and reward cycles to bonus plans, frontline incentives, recognition, fair pay and living wage — turning data, policy and market insight into practical solutions that are clear, fair and easy for managers and employees to understand. The role will also include a variety of specialist reward projects.

This role offers the opportunity to develop expertise across global reward, incentives, recognition and fair pay while working with senior stakeholders and complex reward programmes in a FTSE-listed global organization

Key responsibilities

Reward cycle and recognition

• Support the delivery and continuous improvement of Haleon’s annual performance and reward cycle, working closely with Reward Operations, Talent and HR teams.
• Support the evolution of Haleon’s recognition approach, helping translate enterprise design into clear, engaging employee and manager materials.
• Support the delivery of annual compensation review processes, including salary review and reward decision governance.

Bonus, incentives and governance

• Support the design and operation of annual bonus plans, including policy documents, communications, governance materials and support for the Incentive Review Committee.
• Act as custodian of the Bonus Policy, tracking and assessing exceptions and supporting clear, consistent decision-making.
• Advise on the design and review of frontline incentive programmes, ensuring plans are aligned to business objectives, reward principles and governance expectations.
• Support the maintenance and governance of reward policies, frameworks and tools to ensure consistency, compliance and a positive employee experience.

Fair pay, market insight and reward projects

• Support Haleon’s fair pay, living wage and evolving pay transparency agenda; helping build practical, globally consistent approaches.
• Support job architecture, job evaluation and grading activities; ensuring roles are positioned consistently and aligned with Haleon's reward framework.
• Analyse reward, workforce and market data to identify trends, generate insights and develop recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Support specialist reward projects as determined by the Global Reward Manager, including projects linked to governance, simplification, communication, compliance or reward effectiveness.

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Qualifications and skills

Essential

• Strong analytical and numerical skills, with advanced Excel and confidence working with reward, HR and performance data.
• Experience with compensation benchmarking, job evaluation, pay ranges or reward governance.
• Experience using HR systems, preferably Workday, and the ability to translate process requirements into clear technology and data requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn complex reward topics into simple, practical messages for different audiences.
• Strong planning and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work at pace.
• Sound judgement and problem-solving skills, with the ability to weigh data, policy, precedent, risk and business context.
• Ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders across HR, Talent, Reward Operations, Finance and business teams.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity in a global, matrixed environment.

Preferred

• Prior experience in reward, compensation, recognition or incentives.
• Degree or equivalent experience in a quantitative, business, HR, finance or related discipline.
• Reward-related certification or training, such as CIPD reward or equivalent.
• Experience in large, global organisations with complex stakeholder groups.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees. 

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

Adjustment or Accommodations Request

If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence. 

Note to candidates

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.