Reward Specialist

Job Description

Join us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers — we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world.

If you want to grow your career whilst finding the right balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunity to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

With us, you can design and deliver fair, transparent and data‑led reward solutions that support how we attract, engage and retain talent in Vodafone Ireland.

As a Reward Specialist reporting to the Head of Reward, you’ll be part of a specialised Centre of Excellence within the Vodafone Ireland HR team, responsible for shaping and delivering differentiated, best practice solutions across reward, recognition, pensions and benefits. Your role will focus on delivering end‑to‑end reward management, ensuring our frameworks are competitive, compliant and commercially aligned to our people and business strategy.

You’ll support the design and implementation of total reward strategy, policies and programmes, and manage key elements of the annual reward cycle including salary reviews, bonus, share awards, benefits and recognition. Alongside this, you’ll maintain and evolve reward policies, processes and governance to ensure they remain aligned with company strategy, market practice and legal requirements, including leading projects such as EU Pay Transparency, Gender Pay Gap reporting and broader pay equity initiatives.

You’ll work closely with Finance to support reward budgeting and cost alignment, contributing to DB planning and delivering headcount and employee cost reporting, analysis and insights to inform decision‑making. You’ll maintain reward dashboards and ensure strong data integrity across all reporting outputs.

You’ll lead job evaluation, levelling and job architecture governance,and deliver market benchmarking and reward surveys to ensure competitive positioning.You’ll also support the delivery of benefits programmes, including annual enrolment, and design and evolve both financial and non‑financial recognition schemes to maximise employee value,drive engagement and align with business priorities,while ensuring pensions and broader benefits offerings are effectively managed and communicated.

Acting as a trusted advisor, you’ll provide expert reward guidance to HRBPs and business leaders, coaching them on reward principles, tools and decision‑making. You’ll collaborate with HR Services and external providers to deliver efficient operations, while managing and supporting international mobility processes and policies for assignees.

Using your analytical expertise, you’ll interpret data and provide practical, insight‑led recommendations to leadership and HR teams, with a focus on efficiency and cost effectiveness.You’ll continuously improve reward processes, controls and documentation in line with our simplicity strategy, identifying opportunities to leverage automation and AI to enhance how we work.

Who we are looking for

• Experience in reward, HR, finance or data analytics
• Proven expertise in reward operations, data analysis and reporting
• Experience in job evaluation, benchmarking and reward governance
• Strong capability in completing and interpreting reward surveys
• A commercial mindset with the ability to balance business and employee needs
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
• High attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Strong analytical capability, with confidence using data (including Excel) to generate insights and recommendations
• Clear and effective communication skills, with the ability to translate complex topics
• A sense of curiosity and integrity in how you approach your work
• A continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on best practice, simplicity and efficiency
• A passion for using your expertise to develop innovative solutions that add value to the business
• A collaborative approach, with the ability to work effectively as part of a team and across the wider organisation

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background.

If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply — you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What’s in it for you?

The flexibility to work how you perform best, with hybrid ways of working and real focus on work-life balance

A competitive package including salary, bonus and a strong pension to support you now and long-term

€1050 flexible benefits allowance, plus access to comprehensive health and wellbeing support

Access to our on-site wellness centre and gym, alongside a wider wellbeing programme

Free mobile plan, device offers and exclusive discounts for you, your family and friends

Market-leading family policies and flexibility to support you at every stage of life

Real opportunities for career growth through learning, development and internal progression

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people’s lives and the world around us.

Through our technology, we empower people — connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live — and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn’t a concept; it’s lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You’ll be part of a global and diverse community with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures.

We’re committed to increasing diversity, ensuring equal representation, and making Vodafone a place where everyone feels safe, valued and included.

Vodafone is committed to supporting candidates with disabilities during the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments, please let us know.

Together we can.

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