About us
At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience—from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.
The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.
If you’re willing to get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.
About the role
We’re on the lookout for a Reward Junior Business Partner to join our dynamic Reward team, part of the wider People team at Halfords. This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to develop their career in Reward, working across our Commercial Fleet Services and Garages divisions.
In this role, you’ll play a key part in supporting the delivery of core annual reward activities, combining analytical, administrative tasks, and coordination of key initiatives. You’ll gain valuable experience working closely with a knowledgeable and collaborative team that places a strong emphasis on learning and development.
Key responsibilities
- Support the planning, coordination and delivery of core annual reward processes, including pay reviews, bonus and incentive schemes, colleague share plans, and benefits renewal and selection windows.
- Provide day-to-day analytical support to the Reward team on projects, modelling, business cases, and ad hoc requests.
- Undertake accurate calculations and timely processing of quarterly and annual bonus and incentive payments across the business areas, ensuring alignment with scheme rules and governance controls.
- Work with Payroll and the broader People team to ensure that outcomes of cyclical activities are accurately processed and clearly communicated.
- Complete job levelling and external market benchmarking for roles across the organisation up to leadership level, making recommendations based on market insight.
- Prepare and submit data to relevant salary surveys
- Provide support to the Reward team in resolving escalated colleague queries, ensuring a consistent and compliant approach to reward-related matters.
About you
- Proven experience in reward within a fast-paced, complex, and dynamic environment.
- Strong numerical skills with the ability to translate data into clear insights.
- Effective stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across business functions to support reward initiatives.
- Understanding of employee share plans and how they operate within a total reward framework.
Reward & benefits
- A fair and competitive salary evaluated against market data, annual discretionary bonus scheme, pension, life assurance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave.
- Commitment and dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We help you to own and grow your potential so you can be at your best in your current role and to support your future career aspirations.
- We offer hybrid working in our Support Centre, you will be based at our Support Centre 2 days a week with an optional 3 days working from home.
- You will have access to a wealth of employee discounts across the Halfords suite of products and services.
- Wellbeing and inclusion are at the heart of our colleague experience. We offer resources and ongoing support to enhance your wellbeing at work and active Colleague Networks supporting inclusion initiatives across Halfords.
Not sure you meet all the criteria? We'd encourage you to take the wheel and apply anyway! At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family.
At Halfords, we operate a hybrid working policy with 2 days on site at our Support Centre in Redditch, Worcestershire.