Reward & Performance Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Argos
Closing date: 03 April 2026
Requisition ID: 400052737
At Argos, we’re a digital‑led British retailer moving at pace – reshaping how customers shop and how work gets done. Our People team sits at the heart of that transformation.
The Argos People function is a commercially‑minded, high‑impact team partnering leaders to deliver growth, build capability and create a high‑performance culture. We work on the things that matter most – from organisation design and talent to culture, reward and transformation – balancing pace with care, and outcomes with colleague experience.
We’re looking for People professionals who want to help shape the future of Argos, and who are comfortable working with ambiguity in a constantly changing landscape. This is an environment where priorities shift, problems aren’t always fully defined, and impact comes from judgement, influence and action – not just process.
This is a place where you’ll have real accountability, a clear voice, and the opportunity to influence how a major retail business evolves.
If you thrive in complexity, enjoy solving real business problems and want to play an active role in building what comes next, Argos People is the place to build your career.
Why join us
Joining the Argos People team as the Reward and Performance Manager offers a unique opportunity to play a crucial role in shaping and delivering the reward strategies and policies that support the organisation's business objectives. With a focus on maintaining competitive positioning, analysing compensation issues, and improving the effectiveness of reward offerings, this role provides a platform for continuous learning and development. You will work alongside a dedicated team, contribute to various projects, and have the chance to influence and engage with stakeholders across the business, all while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and customer-centricity.
What you'll do
As the Reward and Performance Manager, you will play a crucial role in supporting the development and implementation of reward strategies, policies, and approaches to align with business objectives and maintain competitive positioning. Your responsibilities will include preparing clear and user-friendly reward communications, analysing compensation and benefits issues, overseeing market surveys, maintaining compensation frameworks, supporting benchmarking processes, and contributing to HR projects with a focus on the reward perspective. Additionally, you will be responsible for maintaining accurate personnel information systems, updating reward-related documents, and building strong working relationships with colleagues across the business to ensure effective communication and engagement with stakeholders.
Who you are
As a Reward and Performance Manager, you are a highly analytical and detail-oriented professional with a strong background in reward strategies and policies. Your ability to analyse and interpret compensation and benefits data, along with your advanced Excel capabilities, enables you to provide meaningful insights and recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of the company's reward offerings. With your excellent communication skills and collaborative approach, you build strong relationships with stakeholders, contribute to HR projects, and ensure the alignment of reward elements with organisational objectives, showcasing your proactive and solution-oriented mindset in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable ability to analyse, interpret and present large data sets, including advanced use of Excel tools such as pivot tables, graphs and conditional formatting.
- Proven capability to prepare and deliver clear Reward communications, such as pay review guidance or bonus rules, to support stakeholder understanding.
- Experience conducting compensation or benefits analysis and providing evidence‑based recommendations aligned to Reward priorities.
- Demonstrable experience managing or maintaining Reward frameworks or systems, ensuring compensation and benefits information remains accurate, accessible and up to date.
- Ability to coordinate and participate in benchmarking or job evaluation processes, including facilitating evaluation panels or managing survey participation.
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
