Global Head of Reward

Global Head of Reward
12 month FTC (Fixed-Term Contract)

About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.

Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.

Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the bran­d is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.

About the role
We are seeking a commercially minded Head of Reward to lead reward strategy and operations across the UK and EMEA regions, with a global remit for managing the annual compensation review cycle. This role will be instrumental implementing equitable and competitive compensation structures, ensuring alignment with both regional market trends and global business objectives. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with People Business Partners, Finance, and senior leadership to support scalable, data-driven reward solutions.

As a Global Head of Reward you will
Regional Reward Leadership (UK & EMEA)

• Own the delivery of regional reward frameworks, ensuring alignment with global principles
• Provide consistent and best practice reward expertise and support to the executive committee and wider HR team across UK and EMEA
• Act as a strategic partner to HRBPs and business leaders across UK & EMEA

Global Annual Pay Cycle

• Lead the planning, governance, and execution of the global head office annual pay review and bonus process including preparation of remuneration committee papers and analysis
• Accountability for pay reviews and CBA cycles for the UK and EMEA Retail population
• Design pay review communications, tools, timelines, and training in collaboration with People Services, Payroll and HRIS teams
• Ensure robust data accuracy, process integrity, and reporting throughout the cycle
• Drive consistency across countries while respecting local legislation and market practices

Compensation & Benefits

• Oversee regional benefits programmes and vendor management (e.g. life assurance, healthcare, wellbeing etc)
• Evaluate compensation structures and propose data-led enhancements to attract and retain talent
• Manage market benchmarking and job levelling to globally ensure external competitiveness and internal equity
• Support new country ventures through delivery of benefits requirements, tax compliance for benefits in kind and advice on compensation regime
• Monitor regulatory compliance related to pay, gender pay, and other transparency obligations
• Provide clear communication to individuals, managers and the wider business, to smooth delivery and maximise positive value of reward as perceived by individuals.

International Mobility

• Manage the international assignment and relocation programme to ensure global consistency, efficiency and legislative compliance
• Manage global mobility policies covering international relocations, sponsorships and secondments
• Oversee vendor relationships (e.g. relocation, tax and immigration) and ensure sufficient, compliant execution
• Advise on tax, immigration, and social security matters related to employee mobility
• Provide advice and guidance to wider HR team and managers around best practice, group direction and strategy, for international mobility.

Analytics & Projects

• Drive Reward reporting and insights to support data led decision making
• Lead reward-related projects such as new system implementation or benefit design
• Track reward KPIs, trends, and external benchmarks to inform strategic planning
• Own the design and submission of gender pay gap and pay equity reports where required
• Management of the Reward budget

Team

• Provide leadership, development and support to a team of 3 so they can support the business effectively and grow in their roles.
• Contribute to the leadership of the People team as a senior member of the team.
• Ensure high standards and ethics across the team.
• Add to the body of specialist knowledge within the reward team through innovation and market intelligence.

About you

• Proven experience in a senior level reward role, ideally with UK and EMEA coverage within a global organisation
• Strong technical knowledge of reward frameworks, global comp practises and mobility policies
• Experience managing annual pay cycles, incentive design, and benchmarking processes
• Sound understanding of global employment tax, compliance, and international mobility principles
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Highly analytical with advanced Excel and HRIS reporting tools
• Highly collaborative, astute and able to understand the dynamics of a complex organisation and demonstrate desire to work to a common goal
• Relevant professional qualification preferred

Why join us?

• Be a part of this values driven, high growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves
• We’re a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey
• Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all
• Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs and regular social connects with colleagues
• Bring your furry friend to work with you on our allocated dog friendly days and spaces
• And not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.

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