Strategic Reward Partner

This role is based in our 5 Howick Place office.

Informa Festivals and Informa Connect are two of Informa's dynamic B2B Markets divisions. Informa Festivals delivers experience-led events that inspire and celebrate business through immersive activities, high-impact content, and powerful connections in five global markets: Marketing, FinTech, Cybersecurity, Gaming, and Technology. Informa Connect provides businesses and professionals with knowledge and connections that create commercial edge through content-led live and on-demand events in specialist markets including Life Sciences, Global Finance, Foodservice, Technology, and Aesthetics & Anti-Aging.

We are seeking a Strategic Reward Partner to join the People function, supporting both Informa Festivals and Informa Connect divisions. In this role, you will work closely with the divisional People leaders to implement and evolve a comprehensive total rewards strategy across all areas. You will partner with key stakeholders to develop commercially driven reward solutions that support business growth within these dynamic event-focused divisions.

You will guide business partners and leaders through the annual compensation cycle to ensure clarity, operational excellence, and efficiency. In collaboration with Informa Group's Global Head of Reward & Benefits and the Reward Leads for our other divisions, you will maintain consistency and alignment in our reward strategies and programmes as needed.

Your role will also involve ensuring that our strategies remain competitive in the marketplace, comply with all legal and regulatory requirements, and promote colleague engagement across our global operations.

Key areas of responsibilities will include:

Strategic Partnership

• Act as the strategic reward lead and go-to reward expert for Informa Festivals and Informa Connect, providing expert advice and insight to divisional leadership and HR Business Partners, while ensuring alignment of divisional priorities with Group reward strategy and principles.
• Represent the voice of both divisions in Group reward discussions, ensuring business needs and priorities are clearly articulated and considered in Group-wide reward planning.
• Champion the "One Informa" approach by embedding the Group Reward Framework in divisional processes and decision-making, promoting consistency, transparency, and equity in reward outcomes.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with divisional HR and business leaders, acting as a proactive partner in shaping and delivering effective reward outcomes.
• Contribute to strategic workforce planning, organisational design, and talent initiatives by providing reward expertise and insights at divisional level.

Reward Cycle Management

• Lead the delivery of the annual reward cycle for both divisions, including pay reviews, bonus and variable pay processes, and compensation planning. This will require partnering with divisional HR and Finance teams.
• Be responsible for ensuring both divisions stay within salary budget throughout the year and provide regular updates to division leaders and Informa Group’s Global Head of Reward & Benefits.
• Oversee STIP management: input into decisions on STIP measures, weightings, target setting, template letter generation, performance tracking throughout the year.
• Provide analysis, insights, and controls to ensure effective salary management. Lead on benchmarking, salary range development, annual pay reviews, out-of-cycle increases, and Gender Pay Gap reporting.
• Support on senior hires and leavers including settlement agreements, buyouts, redundancy calculations.
• Manage benchmarking for and approval processes linked to senior hires for both divisions.
• Manage and track bespoke reward arrangements for colleagues as required from time to time.

Business Integration & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the point of contact for internal divisional stakeholders on any/all reward matters, including working closely with finance, legal and other teams and educating others on reward best practice.
• Support both divisions on any/all M&A activity including (but not limited to) reward harmonisation.
• Collaborate with central Reward & Benefit Operations team to help deliver One Informa Initiatives such as job levelling, job families, pay ranges, progression and reward principles.
• Lead the data validation process for both divisions if/when a new HRIS is implemented.
• Support the development and execution of Group reward initiatives within the divisions, ensuring smooth implementation and stakeholder engagement.
• Collaborate with the central Reward and Benefits Operations team to deliver operational support within divisions as required.

Market Intelligence & Innovation

• Proactively monitor and analyze reward trends and best practices, recommending and implementing changes as appropriate.
• Analyse and interpret internal and external reward data to inform decision-making and support robust, evidence-based recommendations to leadership.
• Monitor reward trends, market practices, and regulatory developments to ensure divisional reward approaches remain competitive, compliant, and aligned with Group and best practices.
• Provide strategic input to the design and evolution of reward frameworks, policies, and processes, drawing on divisional insights and business needs.