Baringa - Global Head of Reward
Requirements
• Experience operating as a strategic partner to executive and senior leadership teams, with excellent stakeholder management, influencing and constructive challenge skills. • Proven track record of building and executing reward strategies within a complex, multi-geography organisation. • Demonstrated success operating in a fast-paced, agile or entrepreneurial environment where priorities evolve and timely judgement is essential. • Strong commercial judgement, including experience developing business cases, managing significant investment and connecting reward decisions directly to business performance. • A track record of simplifying and transforming reward operations, processes or technology in support of growth, scale and improved employee experience. • Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to distil complex technical, financial and people-related information into clear, concise recommendations for senior stakeholders and leadership teams. • Comfortable moving between strategic leadership and hands-on problem-solving when required, without losing sight of longer-term priorities. • Experience leading and developing geographically dispersed teams. • Desirable • Experience within professional services, consulting or partnership environments. • Experience supporting international growth and market expansion. • Experience working with AI-enabled tools or digital operating models. • What a career at Baringa will give you • Putting People First. • Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include: • Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service. • Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave. • Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us. • Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice. • Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success. • Diversity and Inclusion
Responsibilities
• Define and deliver Baringa’s global Reward strategy, ensuring alignment with business growth, talent, performance and globalisation priorities. • Act as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, providing clear, evidence-based recommendations on reward, workforce and organisational decisions. Baringa is a Partnership and influencing skills and creating buy-in are key components for success. • Translate business strategy, financial performance and workforce priorities into clear reward choices and targeted investment recommendations. • Build robust commercial cases for reward investment, clearly articulating cost, value, risk and expected business outcomes. • Oversee global compensation, benefits, payroll and mobility frameworks, ensuring they remain competitive, scalable and compliant across all geographies. • Lead and contribute to firm-wide initiatives including international expansion, M&A activity, operating model evolution and strategic people programmes, partnering across functions and geographies to achieve business outcomes. • Set and deliver a clear transformation agenda for Reward, simplifying processes, improving data and controls, and using technology, automation and AI to create a more scalable, efficient and insight-led function. • Lead, develop and empower a global team of 14, creating a high-performing, commercially focused and delivery-oriented function that can respond quickly to changing business priorities. • Manage reward investment and governance, balancing competitiveness and employee experience with cost discipline, compliance and organisational risk. • Combine internal data, external market intelligence and commercial judgement to challenge established approaches, make pragmatic recommendations and enable timely business decisions. • Own the quality, timeliness and commercial integrity of global reward decisions, ensuring issues are surfaced early and stakeholders receive clear recommendations.
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