Overview
The Rewards Consultant will engage in a short-term, high-impact project focused on developing and implementing a transparent and scalable job levelling and salary framework for a growing company in the technology or biotech sector. They will work closely with senior stakeholders to define job levels, create salary bands, and establish career progression paths while conducting market benchmarking, ensuring that the framework meets the needs of the organization and supports its growth objectives.
Responsibilities
- Design a job levelling framework consisting of approximately 7 levels.
- Develop clear salary bands across various technical and corporate disciplines.
- Create career progression and competency frameworks encompassing technical expertise, leadership, role scope, and organizational impact.
- Conduct external market salary benchmarking to inform salary structure.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders and department heads to tailor the framework.
- Present the final reward framework to the Leadership Team.
Requirements
- Proven experience as an independent Interim Reward Consultant.
- Demonstrated success in delivering job architecture, job levelling, salary banding, and benchmarking projects.
- Experience within high-growth technology, AI, biotech, or life sciences sectors.
- Familiarity with working in scale-ups of around 100–300 employees.
- Strong analytical skills to engage with technical stakeholders effectively.
- Pragmatic and hands-on approach to developing straightforward reward frameworks.