Senior Manager - Total Reward

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Job Details

Salary: Competitive per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday

Location: Hybrid, 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 7th of May 2025

In a nutshell

At Virgin Atlantic, we are passionate about attracting and retaining top talent. We are looking for a visionary leader to join our Reward and Wellbeing team as the Senior Manager - Total Reward. This role is key to driving our Total Reward agenda and ensuring we have the right proposition, products, and market positioning.

As the Senior Manager - Total Reward, you will support the VP Reward and Wellbeing to drive forward and deliver the Total Reward plan. You will work collaboratively across the People team and wider Senior Leadership Group to define, develop, and execute the Total Reward agenda.

This role reports to the VP Reward and Wellbeing and sits within the Reward and Wellbeing department. You will collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team, People Leadership Team, Finance, Trade Unions, and external partners.

Day to day

• Support the VP Reward and Wellbeing to develop long-term Total Reward strategy and plans.
• Provide critical, strategic thinking, analysis, and ideas to deliver the desired business outcomes.
• Maintain market awareness to continually review current Total Reward plan and recommend adjustments to improve competitiveness.
• Prepare effective documents (e.g., presentations, board papers, analysis) to support Reward decision making and delivery.
• Partner with the business to design and recommend pay and Reward structures.
• Support the VP Reward and Wellbeing in the preparation for Remuneration Committee and executive pay recommendations.
• Manage and deliver end-to-end cyclical and ad hoc senior leader benchmarking and reviews.
• Oversee delivery of strategic Reward projects and team Plan on a Page.
• Ensure the Reward and Wellbeing team stays connected to external partners, trends, and insights.

About you

• Proven experience as a Reward leader in complex, global organisations.
• CIPD Qualified or equivalent generalist HR grounding across multiple disciplines.
• Excellent strategic and critical thinking skills with advanced analytical skills.
• Experience in delivering significant change programs and executive pay, including demonstrable experience of effective design of both short and long term incentives
• Strong levels of self-motivation and ability to work effectively autonomously.
• Experience in negotiating and managing a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven working experience in use of PowerBI, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint.
• High level of drive, enthusiasm, tenacity, and resilience.

Our recipe for leadership

At Virgin Atlantic, our leaders empower teams to thrive through collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Explore our Leadership Recipe and discover the 20 core ingredients that define what it means to lead with us, driving our mission to be the most loved travel company and achieve sustainable profit. Want to learn more? Click here

Be yourself

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you'd like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, ( email protected ) feeling confident that we've got your individual considerations covered.

Company

Richard Branson founded Virgin Atlantic in 1984 with the intention of shaking up the aviation industry. Since then, we've grown from a small team, one 747 plane and a single route, to a global network that employs thousands of wonderful people worldwide.

We're not just your average airline. We're a family-centric one who recognises togetherness as a hugely important aspect of life. We support and care about our employees and their families, which makes Virgin Atlantic a special place to work and the long-haul airline our customers fall in love with.

When it comes to our people, they're a passionate lot, united in creating something different. It's always been like this. It's in our DNA, and it was ignited within us from the moment we started flying. So, step on board, get ready to find your purpose, embrace your human spirit and let it fly.

Our ways of working

We're on a mission to become the most loved travel company, but with this comes great responsibility. We must support all of our people to embrace a growth mindset. To think like a start-up and act like an owner of Virgin Atlantic and to live our values every day. Our ways of working are designed to reflect the balance of happiness, productivity, collaboration, and team spirit that make us uniquely Virgin. We have built our approach on six core principles, recognising work as an activity, not a place. The focus is less on when and where people work, collaborate, or learn, but on their performance and outcomes. This is built on a foundation of trust and celebrates the diversity of our people, embracing that we all have different work-life considerations and varying times when our energy is highest.

Our people & networks

At Virgin Atlantic, we want to inspire everyone to take on the world, championing inclusivity, activism, and challenger spirit. It guides us in everything we do as we strive to make progress on the issues that matter most. We know difference is a strength, enabling us to be a force for good for our employees, customers, and communities. We aim to be an employer of choice, and our purpose, the belief that drives us, is that everyone can take on the world. We're committed to bringing together a workforce that reflects the society we live in, creating an environment that supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and allowing all our people to bring their whole selves to work.

Supported by their own Executive Ally, our four employee networks are employee-led communities where our people can connect, celebrate and support each other. The networks work together to raise awareness of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion across the business and, through regular conversation, inform the actions we need to take as an organisation to create an environment where everyone feels they belong.

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