Reward Manager

This is a newly created role within the People and Culture team providing critical and essential expertise as we move through a project to review our approach to total review at the Museum, incorporating how we manage pay, benefits, pay progression, job evaluation and benchmarking.

Acting as a strategic partner, advising on all elements of reward, you will be responsible for implementing a new pay and grading framework, overseeing the completion of a benchmarking project, reviewing our pay banding, and job evaluation.

Alongside this, you will build capacity in the pay and reward function, provide expert reward knowledge on pay negotiations and support our work with unions on reward activities.

If you're passionate about driving effective and efficient strategies within reward and making a meaningful impact, we invite you to be part of our dynamic team.

Key areas of responsibility:

Design and implement pay and reward structures to ensure they attract, motivate, and retain employees.
Develop a job grading system and benchmarking frameworks to maintain pay equity and transparency.
Review the employee benefit programs, such as the civil service pension scheme and our other benefits, evaluate if these are fit for purpose or if other benefits would better serve our employees, including option of flexible benefits packages.
Support the leadership team with the annual pay negotiations with Union colleagues, ensure that outcomes are effectively costed and communicated.
Develop policies and procedures related to rewards and benefits, ensuring fairness and consistency across the Museum.
Support and assist with the delivery of Museum projects that relate to Reward, including but not limited to the design, procurement and implementation of a modern and future-focused HRIS.

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, then we'd love to hear from you. A full job description is available below, this details the key dimensions of the role and the person specification.

What you’ll bring:

You will be an excellent communicator, skilled in building relationships and collaborating with a variety of stakeholders. You will demonstrate a high level of initiative and have a strong focus on continuous improvement both of yourself and those around you. You will also be able to evidence:

Proven reward experience.
Highly organized with excellent time management skills.
Exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to distill complex topics into clear, understandable concepts.
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills with a strong focus on continuous improvement.
Experience using job evaluation and salary benchmarking systems.
Skilled in building relationships and collaborating with a variety of stakeholders.

About the British Museum:

Founded in 1753, the British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. The Museum is a leading visitor attraction, and its world-famous collection includes the Rosetta Stone, Egyptian mummies, the Sutton-Hoo finds, and the Lewis Chessmen. The Museum also holds an extensive collection of prints and drawings spanning 600 years, including works by the greatest graphic artists such as Dürer, Michelangelo and Rembrandt.

The Museum offers a competitive benefits package including:

Generous annual leave allowance of 25 days (rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service) plus 2.5 privilege days and plus bank holidays.
Membership of the civil service defined benefit pension scheme (find out here what benefits a civil service pension provides).
Free entry to a wide range of museums and exhibitions
Participation in private and public Museum activities, including talks by leading curators from around the world and behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn how museums care for and manage their extraordinary collections.
Interest-free travel, bicycle, and rental deposit loans
Professional and personal development opportunities
Employee Assistance Programme
Discounts on food and gift shop purchases

Additional details:

For more information about this role, please see the job description.

The interviews are expected to take place on 16 July 2025.

We offer a flexible way of working that allows our employees to work remotely in a way that suits them and the organisation. We welcome questions and conversations at interview stage about how flexible working could work for you. We would typically see this role as working on site about 2 days a week.

If you have any additional needs that we should be aware of in order to support you with your application, please provide details to [email protected].

The British Museum is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals can make best use of their skills, free from unlawful discrimination or harassment. We value the benefits that a diverse workforce brings to a museum which represents world culture. The Museum is committed to ensuring that no job applicant suffers unlawful discrimination because of any protected characteristics. Our recruitment procedures aim to ensure that individuals are treated in line with their relevant knowledge, skills and experience.

We specifically encourage applications from candidates from ethnic minority groups who are underrepresented within our senior roles.

The Museum also adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) for pre-employment screening of Civil Servants.

Museum Website: https://bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/CIPHR/jobdetail_8227.aspx