Reward & Workforce Planning Partner

Were looking for a new Reward & Workforce Planning Partner to join our Talent team. This is an exciting opportunity to redefine how we approach progression development and workforce planning as we scale. This is a high-impact role for someone who isnt afraid to do things differently are passionate about development and bring bold ideas that shape how we make people decisions.

Despite significant advances in healthcare millions of people in the UK still experience poor health as they age. Diseases such as cancer dementia diabetes and heart disease continue to impact individuals families and communities. Our goal is to create a world-leading resource for health research helping researchers better understand how and why diseases develop so they can be detected earlier prevented and treated more effectively.

Our Future Health will be the UKs largest ever health research programme bringing people together to develop new approaches to detecting preventing and treating disease. We are a charity supported by the UK Government in partnership with charities and industry and we work closely with the NHS and public authorities across the UK.

What youll be doing:

In this role you will partner closely with the Head of Talent Finance and senior stakeholders to ensure we make consistent fair and data-led decisions on pay progression and workforce planning. Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Reward & Progression

• Support the implementation and evolution of reward frameworks ensuring alignment with organisational principles and externalpositioning

• Support the development and ongoing refinement ofthe Rewardpolicy includingstructuresbenchmarkingand job levelling

• Lead the operational delivery of reward activities including salary reviews and promotion cycles;end to end project managementincludingownership ofthird-partyrelationships for our HRIS system set up

• Provideguidanceand supportto People Partners and managers on reward ensuring consistency and fairness

• Contribute to the development and documentation of reward policies and processes

• Review and evaluate the benefits offering in partnership with the People Experience team providing insight and recommendationsto People & Culture Leadershipto ensure alignment with reward strategy organisational needs and market practice

• Own the annual Gender Pay Gap reporting process ensuring Our Future Healthcomply withguidelines and timings

Workforce Planning & Headcount

• Support workforce planning processes in partnership with Finance and senior stakeholders
• Build and maintain headcount and workforce planning models to support scenario planning
• Ensure accurate and aligned headcount reporting across systems
• Provide insight to inform hiring prioritisation and resource allocation

Data Insight & Organisational Effectiveness

• Translate people data into clear actionable insight for Talent People Partners and leadership
• Develop and maintain reporting across reward and workforce planning
• Identify trends risks and opportunities and proactively raise these
• Support organisational design succession planning progression pathways and role architecture

Ideally the successful candidate will bring experience across reward and/or workforce planning in a complex organisation. To succeed in this role you will also have some of the following skills:

• Proven experience independently delivering reward or workforce planning processes end-to-endwithin a complex organisation
• Strong understanding of reward benchmarking and pay frameworks
• Experience supporting workforce planning headcount management or organisational design processes
• Ability to translate data into insight and clear recommendations
• Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and influencing decision-making
• Pragmatic and solutions-focused able tooperatewithin defined frameworks while improving them over time
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to see the bigger organisational picture
• Collaborative and relationshipfocussed with a partnership mindset
• Able to balance dataequity and business need in decision-making
• Able tooperatewith minimal supervision bringing prior experience and judgement to navigate ambiguity and complexity

• From 65000 per annum basic salary.
• Generous Pension Scheme We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
• 30 Days Holiday Bank Holidays Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.
• Enhanced Parental Leave Supporting you during lifes biggest moments.
• Cycle to Work Scheme Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.
• Home & Tech Savings Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice.
• 1000 Employee Referral Bonus Know someone amazing Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
• Wellbeing Support Access to Mental Health First Aiders plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
• A Great Place to Work We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.

Join us - letsprevent disease together.

Closing date 26/05/2026 at 5:00 pm.

We may close this vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if we receive a high volume of applications so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

At Our Future Health we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates regardless of their background have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability neurodiversity or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.

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