Reward Consultant

As a Reward Consultant, you will play a key role in shaping McDonald's total reward offering for the UK & Ireland. You will manage cyclical reward processes, including salary reviews, bonus schemes, and long-term incentives, ensuring alignment with industry trends and legislation. Responsibilities include leading compensation processes, managing bonus schemes, designing benefits, providing insights on pay trends, and supporting the Reward Lead to deliver a best-in-class reward strategy.

Must Have

• Lead on compensation processes and ensure sound pay principles are developed and applied consistently.
• Manage bonus schemes that incentivise and reward high performance effectively.
• Design and implement benefits, wellbeing, and recognition initiatives to enhance our Employee Value Proposition.
• Provide insights and recommendations on pay trends, benefits uptake, and pay gap reporting.
• Support the Reward Lead and collaborate across the People Team to deliver a best-in-class reward strategy.
• Experience in reward within a large, complex organisation, particularly across compensation frameworks.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and present clear insights.
• Knowledge of employee benefits, pensions, and recognition schemes.
• Confidence in managing multiple projects and engaging with stakeholders at all levels.
• A collaborative mindset and ability to influence and problem-solve effectively.

Good to Have

• Experience in the retail/hospitality sector.

Perks & Benefits

• Access to industry-leading training and career development opportunities.
• A collaborative and inclusive culture where your ideas are valued.
• Competitive salary plus bonus, cash allowance, and a comprehensive benefits package.
• Free parking, lunch, and gym access at our office.
• Hybrid working for flexibility and work-life balance.

Company Description

Our Global vision is to build a better McDonald’s and we are working hard to be the UK & Ireland’s best-loved restaurant company.

Our values drive our culture and shape our beliefs, our priorities, and our actions. They influence the decisions we make, how we treat one another and how we show up as a brand to the world.

Serve: We put our customers and our people first

Inclusion: We open our doors to everyone

Integrity: We do the right thing

Community: We are good neighbours

Family: We get better together

Job Description

Salary: Competitive + Bonus + Cash Allowance

Location: London (Hybrid working)

What you’ll be doing

As a Reward Consultant, you’ll play a key role in shaping our total reward offering for the UK & Ireland. You’ll manage cyclical reward processes, including salary reviews, bonus schemes, and long-term incentives, while keeping us aligned with industry trends and legislation, and getting to work on our wider reward proposition.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading on compensation processes and ensuring sound pay principles are developed and applied consistently.
• Managing bonus schemes that incentivise and reward high performance effectively.
• Designing and implementing benefits, wellbeing, and recognition initiatives to enhance our Employee Value Proposition.
• Providing insights and recommendations on pay trends, benefits uptake, and pay gap reporting.
• Supporting the Reward Lead and collaborating across the People Team to deliver a best-in-class reward strategy.

Qualifications

What you’ll bring

• Experience in reward within a large, complex organisation, particularly across compensation frameworks, ideally in the retail/hospitality sector.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and present clear insights.
• Knowledge of employee benefits, pensions, and recognition schemes.
• Confidence in managing multiple projects and engaging with stakeholders at all levels.
• A collaborative mindset and ability to influence and problem-solve effectively

What you’ll get

• Access to industry-leading training and career development opportunities.
• A collaborative and inclusive culture where your ideas are valued.
• Competitive salary plus bonus, cash allowance, and a comprehensive benefits package.
• Free parking, lunch, and gym access at our office.
• Hybrid working for flexibility and work-life balance.

Additional Information

At McDonald’s we are People from all Walks of Life...

People are at the heart of everything we do, and they make the McDonald’s experience. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices, which helps us to better serve our customers. We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities, which we are proud of. The diversity of our people, customers, Franchisees and suppliers gives us strength.

We do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind. These are hugely important issues and a brand with our reach and relevance means we have a very meaningful role to play.

We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities, helping to develop skills and drive aspirations that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it, whether with McDonald’s or elsewhere.”