Compensation & Benefits Advisor

This role does not offer sponsorship.

Have you got experience in pay and benefits? Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your current skillset? If so, then this may be the next career step for you.

The opportunity:

As a Compensation & Benefits Advisor you'll help imbed our pay and benefit strategies to support our broader People Ambition with a particular focus on gender equality and a commitment to diversity and inclusion. Your work will directly contribute to building a culture where everyone feels rewarded and recognised regardless of gender, background, or identity. This is an opportunity to be part of a team who contributes to both attracting and retaining top talent in the industry.

Duties include:

• Advising the business on salary positioning and job grading, becoming the “go to” contact for compensation related guidance.
• Building your expertise in job evaluation methodology, taking ownership of evaluations and ensuring consistency across job families and levels.
• Coordinating and leading the implementation of new benefits and policies, including collaboration with key stakeholders across the business.
• Being a key team member in the annual benefits review process, managing renewals, updating communication materials, and ensuring accurate documentation.
• Managing salary survey participation from job matching through to data submission and analysis of results.
• Contribute to the pay benchmarking process, helping ensure our salary ranges remain competitive and data led.
• Taking a central role in delivering the annual salary review and related pay processes, with the aim of eventually leading on aspects of planning and execution.

At Laing O'Rourke we are committed to career development so if you don't have experience in all of the above, but you do have a desire to learn, with lots of initiative and enthusiasm, we still want to hear from you.  We might be just the place for you to grow into your next role.

 Technical Capabilities and Experience:

• Knowledge of salary benchmarking tools and survey systems (experience with Willis Towers Watson and/or PayData advantageous).
• Experience of common employee benefits (e.g. Private medical insurance, income Protection, Company cars)
• Experience with analytical job evaluation methodologies.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, with the ability to manage and interpret complex data sets confidently.

• Ability to communicate confidently, both verbally and through written documents, and develop relationships with peers across LOR, as well as stakeholders and external providers.

• Good working knowledge of GDPR requirements and how they apply to reward data and employee records. 

About us: 
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia. 

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients. 

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace. 

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com 

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