Global Head of Reward

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. 

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. 

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. 

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.