What are the responsibilities and job description for the Rewards Manager position at YouGov?
Are you a Rewards professional ready to take the next step into a broader, more strategic global role? Looking for the chance to own high-impact projects, influence senior stakeholders, and accelerate your career in a fast-paced, international organisation?
At YouGov, we’re looking for a Rewards Manager who is hungry for progression, thrives on autonomy, and wants real visibility and ownership.
You’ll be working closely with our Global Head of Compensation & Benefits to help evolve our global reward framework — from job architecture and salary structures to benefits harmonisation and compensation analytics.
Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):
This role gives you exposure across the full Reward spectrum, with an emphasis on supporting strategic Compensation initiatives.
Compensation
Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.
Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.
Life at YouGov
We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.
We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.
Equal Opportunity Employer
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethic employer. All employment decisions are made based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.
Data Privacy
To find out how we collect and use your personal data when you apply for a role at YouGov, please read our privacy notice at https://jobs.yougov.com/privacy
At YouGov, we’re looking for a Rewards Manager who is hungry for progression, thrives on autonomy, and wants real visibility and ownership.
You’ll be working closely with our Global Head of Compensation & Benefits to help evolve our global reward framework — from job architecture and salary structures to benefits harmonisation and compensation analytics.
Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):
This role gives you exposure across the full Reward spectrum, with an emphasis on supporting strategic Compensation initiatives.
Compensation
- Act as a subject matter expert on compensation topics, advising HRBPs and leaders.
- Conduct advanced analysis to identify trends and shape compensation strategy globally.
- Partner with external vendors on compensation surveys, ensuring quality and timely submissions.
- Lead and support the annual compensation review cycle in Workday — merit, bonus, promotions, reporting.
- Support salary structure development, job evaluation, and market benchmarking across regions.
- Maintain compensation policies, frameworks, and data integrity.
- Support annual commission plan design and communications.
- Lead benefit renewals and support changes to global benefits programs.
- Analyse current regional benefits, identifying opportunities for enhancement.
- Provide guidance on complex benefits cases and act as a point of escalation.
- Maintain benefits policies, ensure compliance with GDPR and local regulations, and manage vendor relationships.
- 7 years’ experience in Total Rewards with multi-country exposure
- Strong background in compensation design, structures, frameworks, and analytics
- Experience working with benefits across multiple countries
- High Excel proficiency (pivots, lookups, formulas, macros)
- Experience with HRIS systems (Workday preferred)
- A data-driven, solution-oriented approach
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills
Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.
Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.
Life at YouGov
We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.
We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.
Equal Opportunity Employer
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethic employer. All employment decisions are made based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.
Data Privacy
To find out how we collect and use your personal data when you apply for a role at YouGov, please read our privacy notice at https://jobs.yougov.com/privacy