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Reward Strategy Lead

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Royal Bank of Scotland logoRoyal Bank Of Scotland · Edinburgh, UK
Full-timeHybridToday
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Responsibilities

  • You'll be:
  • Acting as a senior deputy on Project Ascent, translating strategic direction into a clear, prioritised delivery plan across features, milestones, governance forums and stakeholder groups
  • Preparing clear, executive-ready papers, updates and recommendations for senior leaders, People forums, ExCo, RemCo and programme governance
  • Connecting insights from leaders, colleagues, market benchmarking, external advisers and delivery teams, shaping evidence-based reward proposals
  • Driving programme delivery and momentum by managing dependencies, risks, issues, decisions and trade-offs across a complex portfolio
  • Partnering across Reward, HR business partners, Talent Acquisition, Communications, Finance, Legal, Regulatory and external advisers to deliver integrated solutions
  • Making sure change lands effectively by developing clear narratives, communications and business-ready materials that support understanding and adoption of the new reward proposition
  • Coaching and enabling contributors to raise delivery standards, foster collaboration and support high-quality outcomes delivered to time
  • The skills you'll need
  • You'll also demonstrate:
  • Strong reward, strategic HR, transformation or consultancy experience, ideally gained in a large, complex and regulated organisation
  • Proven ability to lead complex workstreams and deliver through others, managing competing priorities and achieving high-quality outcomes
  • Excellent communication skills, translating complex reward and people topics into clear, compelling, senior-level narratives
  • Strong influencing, judgement and relationship-building capability, with the confidence to challenge constructively and align diverse stakeholders
  • Hours
  • 35
  • Job Posting Closing Date:
  • Job Posting Closing Date is not yet published.
  • Ways of Working:Hybrid

Additional Information

Join us as a Reward Strategy Lead Take on a visible deputy leadership role at the heart of Project Ascent, one of our most strategically important People transformation programmes You'll help shape and deliver a multi-year transformation of how we reward, recognise and retain talent, connecting performance, market competitiveness and colleague experience You'll build senior influence across Reward, People, the business and external partners, translating insight, governance and execution into measurable outcomes This role will be offered as hybrid with a minimum of 2 days a week in the office


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