Reward Partner, OVO
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
£60-70k
You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Open for applications
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£60-70k
You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
OVO is a leading energy technology company determined to create a world with clean, affordable energy for everyone. Using energy, technology and people power, the company is on a mission to lower its carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping customers reduce theirs at the same time - they call this Plan Zero.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with Workday and WTW is desirable
- Are confident working in a complex, fast-paced, progressive environment
- Have experience with compensation and benefits in a large organisation
- Can adapt, manage ambiguity and resilience to work positively under pressure
- Have experience in partnering with teams to understand, analyse and recommend Reward solutions that solve business problems
- A positive determination and tenacity to find a way through complex situations and someone who loves finding ways to better things - a real problem solver!
- Ability to manage and prioritise multiple time sensitive projects, including but not limited to annual pay and bonus cycles
- Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to adapt and effectively communicate with a variety of stakeholders and employees
- Confidence in articulating thoughts clearly in order to influence senior leaders
- Experience across the full, or broad parts of, the total reward cycle
- Experience of conducting job evaluation and salary benchmarking (ideally Willis Towers Watson) and appreciate its practical application in a fast moving and diverse business
- Strong numerical and analytical skills with attention to detail and strong excel or Google Sheets skills
- Top 3 qualities for this role: Resilience, numerical, partnering
What the job involves
- This is a role that offers immediate exposure to all areas of the business where you will help deliver and develop the total reward agenda
- The role is a 12-month FTC while a member of our team goes on new-addition leave
- As our Reward Partner, you’ll support in the management of all aspects of employee reward & wellbeing.
- You will provide day-to-day guidance and insights to the business and within the People Team, whilst also delivering wider reward initiatives and projects to serve our broader business goals. Reporting to the Head of Reward, ultimately you will help manage the execution of total reward in order to optimise attraction, engagement, productivity and retention of our key talent
- Reporting to the Head of Reward, ultimately you will help manage the execution of total reward in order to optimise attraction, engagement, productivity and retention of our key talent
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with OVO’s business areas in order to understand their plans and priorities and provide relevant, pro-active reward solutions for their teams
- Maintaining the ongoing execution of our career level pay framework, ideally with experience of conducting job evaluation and benchmarking via Willis Towers Watson, providing job levelling and salary benchmarking proposals for job moves, promotions and salary reviews
- Ensuring the employee journey is clear and engaging by maintaining appropriate communication content and working closely with the internal communications team to plan engaging and targeted reward communications throughout the year
- Increasing employee awareness, transparency and understanding of reward by supporting our business leaders and facilitating face-to-face sessions
- Working with the Head of Reward to manage the execution and delivery of cyclical reward projects, including pay review and bonus through Workday
- Assisting and leading on a variety of tactical projects, supporting business change, group transformational/M&A activity, system improvements etc
- Assisting with the management of employee share schemes
- Partnering with the finance team to ensure that key costs (e.g. bonus accrual, salary budgets) are correctly tracked
- Mentoring other team members to share knowledge, upskill and build careers
- Managing any modeling and data analysis for key activity through the year, such as pay review, bonus, gender pay reporting, annual benefit renewals and other policy updates
- Maintaining constructive dialogue with external networks to identify key trends in the market, you will ensure our reward propositions are best in class, providing appropriate input from external advisors and market data
- Monitoring and analysing current policies and practices, both internally and utilising external networks / insights, to identify and make recommendations for improvement or change
- Advising on and handling relevant queries day-to-day from people partners, people leaders, payroll and our people across the business
- Reporting to: Amanda Webb, Head of Reward
- This role in 3 words: Rewarding, analytical, engaging
Salary benchmarks
Our take
On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. They are analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, their offering is organised into four different energy plans. that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.
In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.
While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.
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42% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Inspiring mission
"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$261.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$261.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $562.6m
Company benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- 9% Flex Pay - extra on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, use as your pension contribution, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits (tech schemes, EV leasing and more!).
- Flexible / Remote Working
- Personal Development Allowances and Free Access to OVOLearn - our very own training platform
- 34 Days Holiday (including bank holidays)
- Health Insurance
- £400 OVO Energy Discount
Company values
- Find a better way - We always look for a better way, whether that’s by delivering a better service, employing brilliant people or improving our products and processes
- Do what's right - Being open, honest and fair is one of the values which applies to everything we do. We take pride in talking to our customers and delivering exceptional work
- Build something great - Simple solutions aren’t quick or easy to find. They take time and tenacity. Our people work to find an answer that helps us ‘build something great’
Company HQ
Redcliffe, Bristol, UK
Articles
Leadership
Stephen Fitzpatrick
(Founder)Founder of multiple electric technology companies.
David Buttress
(Chief Executive Officer)CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.
Diversity & Inclusion at OVO
Alessandro Storer (Head of Inclusion & Belonging )
- We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
- We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
- We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech at OVO by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
- Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report
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