Head of Total Rewards

Job description

Head of Total Rewards The Role: The Head of Total Rewards will lead the global Total Rewards strategy for Inizio, ensuring our compensation, benefits, wellbeing, recognition, and executive reward programmes are competitive, equitable, scalable, and aligned to our business strategy. As a member of the HR Leadership Team, you will act as the senior subject matter expert for reward, advising the executive team, HRLT, Remuneration Committee, and Board on strategic reward matters, governance, regulatory readiness, and market practice across a complex, high-growth international organisation. Responsibilities: Total Rewards Strategy Set and lead the global Total Rewards strategy, ensuring alignment with Inizio’s business priorities, talent strategy, culture, and ambition to be a global employer of choice. Own the global approach to compensation, benefits, wellbeing, recognition, executive reward, job architecture, benchmarking, and reward governance. Lead the annual reward cycle, including salary reviews, bonuses, equity allocations, and executive compensation recommendations, in partnership with Finance, Company Secretary, Legal, and HR teams. Provide strategic advice and insight to the CPO, HRLT, executive leaders, Remuneration Committee, and Board on reward strategy, market competitiveness, affordability, risk, and governance. Strategic Projects Lead priority strategic reward projects including EU Pay Transparency, compensation planning, Gender Pay Gap reporting, global job architecture, executive compensation, and reward technology enablement. Own the preparation and quality of Remuneration Committee and Board reward papers, ensuring materials are clear, commercially balanced, and decision-ready. Lead the harmonisation of compensation, benefits, and reward policies across Inizio, ensuring programmes are scalable, compliant, competitive, and aligned to our global operating model. Oversee transaction readiness and due diligence support, ensuring compensation and benefits data is accurate, well-structured, and able to support M&A, financing, IPO readiness, and other business transactions. Define and lead executive compensation reporting and disclosure requirements, ensuring compliance with SEC regulations including Compensation Discussion & Analysis, Summary Compensation Tables, and pay-versus-performance disclosures. Leadership & Stakeholder Management Lead, coach, and develop the Total Rewards team, setting clear priorities, building capability, and ensuring strong delivery across global reward activities. Operate as a trusted HRLT member, contributing to broader people strategy, organisational priorities, and enterprise-wide decision making. Partner with BU HR, People Solutions, People Services, Talent Acquisition, Finance, Legal, Company Secretary, and external advisors to ensure Total Rewards programmes are effectively governed and delivered. Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing executive leaders through clear recommendations, robust market insight, commercial judgement, and board-ready communication. Data-Driven Decision Making & Compliance Establish and maintain strong reward governance across all compensation, benefits, recognition, and executive reward programmes to ensure fairness, transparency, compliance, and alignment with organisational goals. Monitor external market trends, regulatory changes, investor expectations, and competitive reward practice, translating insight into practical recommendations for senior leadership. Use reward analytics, benchmarking, and workforce data to guide strategic decisions, manage cost and risk, and clearly explain the implications of reward choices to executive and HR stakeholders. Process Optimisation & Change Management Lead the simplification, digitisation, and continuous improvement of reward processes, policies, systems, and governance frameworks. Lead change management for major reward initiatives, ensuring clear communications, stakeholder engagement, manager enablement, and appr