Reward Manager

7 days ago

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Strategic Pay Limited Full time

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Strategic Pay is seeking an outstanding Reward Manager to lead our awesome Northern team of remuneration consultants.

Due to continuous growth, we now require a team of Reward Managers to oversee our regions: Northern (Auckland-based office), Central (Wellington-based office), and Southern (Christchurch or Dunedin-based office). This role is for our Reward Manager - Northern Consulting.

If you're an experienced HR generalist / remuneration professional with leadership, and even better, consulting experience then continue reading to discover more

About us
Strategic Pay provides unparalleled insights to enable organisations to make effective reward decisions. We are a proudly New Zealand-owned specialist consultancy firm with a professional and highly skilled team situated across the country. As a leader across private, public and not-for-profit sectors, we are renowned for our complete spectrum of job sizing tools and the largest database of specialist industry remuneration surveys.

What will you be doing?

You'll lead the Northern Consulting team while collaborating with Central and Southern Consulting managers to deliver remuneration solutions like CEO & Executive pay, Governance Fees, Pay Equity analysis, Incentive Design, Remuneration Ranges & Frameworks and more - "the Strategic Pay way." You'll oversee the team's success in achieving high levels of client satisfaction, coaching and sharing knowledge, while meeting strategic objectives, revenue targets, and annual plans. Team and culture are core to our success, so this is a very important role

Beyond operational excellence, you'll play a key role in building Strategic Pay's reputation and business, both in the region and nationally. Staying at the forefront of remuneration best practices, you'll also offer expert advice and support while liaising with a variety of stakeholders and ensuring seamless project delivery.

We need someone who is confident setting targets and standards, defining accountabilities and ensuring client expectations are effectively managed.

What is your background?

To be successful in this role you will ideally have worked as a people manager in a professional services environment, led teams responsible for service delivery, and advised at an executive and CEO level. You will have the following success profile:

  • Previous experience leading a team either as a people manager or equivalent
  • Minimum of 8 years' experience within a professional services environment
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
  • Excel in building relationships and interpreting client needs
  • Proven experience with remuneration and benefits systems, policies and procedures in all aspects of Total Rewards
  • Ideally accredited in either/both SP5 or SP10 or similar and sufficiently adept to train others in job evaluation
  • Technically proficient in M/S Excel, intermediate in Word and PowerPoint plus the ability to work with a variety of automated data systems
  • Tertiary degree desirable, ideally in Human Resources, Management and/or relevant work experience.

We're looking for a down-to-earth leader who combines their professional expertise with strong relationship building. Beyond technical remuneration and reward capability, you'll bring resilience, tenacity and natural leadership qualities that enable you to influence and drive initiatives to success. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants to work alongside and learn from other business leaders while making a genuine commercial, cultural and strategic impact.

What sets us apart?

Strategic Pay is a great place to work, we have high employee engagement, reflective of our great company culture and effective leadership. We offer a friendly, flexible work environment and we have an inclusive, caring, professional culture where innovation and autonomy are encouraged. As an employee of Strategic Pay you can expect:

  • A great company culture - 2024 HRD Employer of Choice Finalist
  • Multiple staff events throughout the year
  • Your birthday off
  • A wellbeing happy allowance - to spend on anything that makes you happy
  • Mentoring, support, and growth

Flexible and hybrid working practices are strongly supported. You will be part of a high performing team where the camaraderie is extremely supportive and stimulating.

Perhaps you don't exactly meet the desired criteria? At Strategic Pay we are passionate about inclusion and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their background. So, if you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't completely align with the job description, we would encourage you to apply as you may be just the right candidate for this role or another role, and our HR team can help see how your skills fit in.

Want to find out more?
For a copy of the job description please contact Cheryl Kenwright on

Applications Close: Friday 21st February

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