Trainline is an innovative, tech business with a mission to bring together the world’s rail, coach and other travel services into one simple experience. We aim to make travel easier and more accessible, encouraging people to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices. We’re hugely proud to be the world’s leading independent rail and coach travel platform and rank among the highest-rated travel and ticketing apps globally. Today, we offer our customers travel to thousands of destinations in and across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. That’s more than £4.3 billion in ticket sales annually, and over 90 million visits to our apps and websites each month. In another major milestone, Trainline listed on the London Stock Exchange in June 2019 and is now part of the FTSE 250.

Our culture is central to our success. We’re driven to sustain our phenomenal growth from recent years, and this means we’re always working closely and collaboratively to turn our ideas into reality. It’s this sense of pace, innovating and improving pretty much everything we do, that makes Trainline so exciting and unique - we truly believe our work has a genuine impact and will change travel for the better.

This Head of Reward role is a newly created position, we've grown our headcount a lot in recent times, both in the UK and across the EU.  We want to make sure that as we continue to scale, all Trainliners are getting the reward and recognition their hardwork deserves.

This role will be working closely with our People leadership team in designing, recommending, and implementing a progressive reward strategy that scales and supports our UK and EU office locations. Reporting to the People Director, you’ll be the Reward lead across Trainline, engaging with our Trainliners, our people leadership team, Trainline senior leaders and our Remuneration Committee as and when required to drive our reward strategy.

The role is responsible for:

• Ownership for reward approach and strategy across all locations including UK, France, Spain and Italy - bringing it to life by ensuring all reward processes and practices are understood and recognised by Trainliners from onboarding, and right through the employee life cycle.
• Leading on all cyclical remuneration processes - including promotions, pay changes, bonus and equity plans - with a continuous improvement mindset, ensuring we iterate and evolve our approaches.
• Leading on the evolution of transparent, flexible and progressive pay frameworks - scalable, relatable to our diverse workforce.
• Leading inclusion within Reward, partnering with the People leadership team to champion positive progress and deliver on Gender pay reporting, equal pay and any other diversity requirements.
• Ensure regular benchmarking and market related pay research is undertaken to ensure our understanding of the positioning of our roles is maintained and provide recommendations wherever needed.
• Proactively lead and provide reward analysis including modelling bonus outturn, compensation gap to market, global gender pay gap analysis.
• Managing and executing on the delivery of all equity programmes across Trainline
• Providing expertise in executive compensation, managing and executing the appropriate Executive Remuneration Committee structure to support our CPO and Director of Finance.
• Working closely with our People ops team to design, recommend and implement our benefits program that is scalable and in line with our Trainline purpose across our different locations
• Operate as the reward SME for all business transactions, M&A's or major business change programmes.
• Partnering with Finance leadership to deliver seamless cost management for all elements of compensation.

• Experience in leading and managing reward approach and strategy in growing, fast-paced and high change environments, ideally within tech.
• You’ll have ideally led the creation of forward-thinking reward packages and frameworks that deliver value and engage our Trainliners
• Experience of executive comp and supporting the Remuneration Committee agenda
• Management of a range of different pensions and benefits via multiple providers, ideally working across UK and EU.
• Experience working with senior leadership on all aspects of compensation.
• Strong communicator to lead on engaging our people with our offering.
• Proven data and analytical skills.
• Excellent and proven business partnering skills.

We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it’s the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.

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