Head of Reward and Workplace Relations

2 weeks ago

United Kingdom Tesco Partners Full time


About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognize that life looks a little different for each of us, and that’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. Talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.


You will be responsible for


  • Leading the UK Reward & Workplace Relations team, accountable for the Reward & Workplace Relations strategy that supports the Group People plan and business strategy to help attract, retain and manage our people.
  • Being a supportive leader, ensuring my team are developed and encouraged to reach their full potential, leading by example and driving a culture of continuous growth and improvement.
  • Development and implementation of the UK Reward & Workplace relations strategy for all colleagues up to senior levels.
  • Owner of all colleague policies for UK colleagues, leading changes to support business needs and compliance.
  • Leading the total reward proposition for all UK colleagues across Stores, Office & Distribution.
  • Leading the annual pay review cycle including bonus plans, pay gap reporting, salary surveys and benchmarking.
  • Leading the annual Benefits cycle including Flexible Benefits, Reward Gateway, Colleague Clubcard, Total Reward Statements, financial wellbeing and private medical insurance.
  • Handling Union relationships for UK including negotiation, consultation and communication at all UK forums, the European Works Council and running Group Colleague Contribution Panels for the Tesco PLC Board.
  • Raising colleague and manager understanding of Tesco Reward and Benefits and their value, setting and implementing our plans for pay transparency for UK colleagues.
  • Supporting the broader People Team strategy, working collaboratively with peers across all teams, markets and subsidiaries to achieve the best outcomes for Tesco and colleagues.
  • Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.


You will need


  • Strong team leadership and mentoring skills.
  • Finding the right mix of strategic planning and operational agility.
  • Ability to simplify complex topics to support the right decision making.
  • Strong partner engagement & relationship building to engage widely using emotional intelligence and listening skills to quickly grasp important points in unfamiliar ground and information.
  • Experience implementing Reward, Benefit and Workplace relations strategies with in-depth understanding of technical area of expertise and legislative impacts.
  • Experience in running HR policy changes.
  • Experience in leading Union negotiations.
  • Leading and collaborating with large teams.
  • Being comfortable operating in and out of the detail.


What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more


  • Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary.
  • Car Cash Allowance.
  • Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
  • Private medical insurance.
  • Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount.
  • 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave.


About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome . We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here .

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.

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