Global Head of Reward

About Baringa Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation. Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors. Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms. Our People team are looking for an experienced Global Head of Reward to join them. The People team exists to ensure Baringa’s people experience enables our strategy, growth, and performance. The team designs and delivers future‑ready people solutions across reward, benefits, wellbeing, people operations, systems, and policy, ensuring our colleagues are supported to do their best work wherever they are in the world. By balancing commercial rigour, strong governance, and a deep understanding of employee needs, the function helps Baringa attract, retain, and develop exceptional talent while sustaining a kind, inclusive, and high‑performing culture. The Global Head of Reward is responsible for defining and delivering Baringa’s global reward strategy, ensuring our Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Mobility offerings enable the firm to attract, retain and grow exceptional talent across an increasingly global business. This role sits at the centre of several of Baringa’s strategic priorities. As a member of the People Leadership Team, the Global Head of Reward partners closely with senior leaders across the firm to shape strategic decisions, support international growth and ensure Reward acts as a commercial enabler of business performance. Baringa operates in a fast-paced, agile and entrepreneurial environment. Priorities can evolve quickly as the firm grows and responds to new commercial opportunities. This role will suit someone who enjoys working at pace, is comfortable navigating ambiguity and can move pragmatically between strategy, decision-making and delivery. Leading a global team of 14 professionals across the UK, Bulgaria & the US, the Global Head of Reward will ensure Baringa’s reward offering remains globally competitive, commercially sustainable, locally compliant and increasingly enabled through technology and automation. What you will be doing - 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. Your skills and experience - Significant experience leading global compensation, benefits, payroll and mobility functions. - 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 We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. An award-winning workplace You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. Using business as a force for good. We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve. We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have. Join us All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further. Baringa Privacy Notices For UK & EU Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our UK Recruitment Privacy Notice / EU Recruitment Privacy Notice, to evaluate your application and meet our legal and reporting obligations. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification, or erasure (subject to legal limitations) of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at [email protected] For the USA Your personal data may be retained by Baringa for up to two years, as outlined in our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to support the recruitment process and internal reporting requirements. Where applicable, and in accordance with relevant federal and state laws, you may have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information. For further details, please contact [email protected] For Australia & Singapore Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to assess your application and meet applicable reporting and legal obligations. In line with the Australian Privacy Act and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or request limited deletion of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at [email protected]