Job title: Reward Specialist 

Location: Bristol, Edinburgh or London - Hybrid

Part time available?: Yes, 80%

Salary: £70,000 - £90,000

Closing Date: Monday 21st October

Kaluza reimagines energy to bring net-zero within everyone’s reach. The Kaluza Platform enables energy utilities to unlock the full value of a radically changing energy system and propel us to a future where renewable energy is sustainable, affordable and accessible for all. 

From automating and simplifying core operations including billing to create a lower-cost, higher-engagement experience, to optimising energy usage across smart devices in the home, we turn tough challenges into win-win-win outcomes for customers, suppliers and the energy system. 

We have a strong flexible, hybrid working ethos, we aim to be as flexible as possible to balance work with life. As a company we come together annually for our conference and end of year celebrations! 

Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working? 

You’ll be joining the People Team at Kaluza - a team of around 20 spread across London, Bristol, Edinburgh, and now Melbourne!

You’ll report to Tash, our VP People, but will have close relationships across the wider People and Finance functions.

What will I be doing?

We’re looking for a brilliant Reward Specialist to join our team! You’ll be our first and only Reward person at Kaluza - so you’ll have huge autonomy to bring your expertise and make a big impact. 

Whilst we have some key reward infrastructure in place - there's a huge opportunity to redefine, iterate and design new elements of our offering - across global pay, bonus, commission, benefits, equity, and more!

You’ll be excellent at bringing together stakeholders from across the business to make decisions around Reward. In this role, your stakeholders will primarily be our People & Finance Teams, as well as members of our Exec team.

We’re at a critical time in our growth, where our Reward offering needs to attract, retain, and engage our people across multiple locations that include the UK, Portugal, USA, and Australia. 

Key deliverables in the coming year (2024-2025):

• Work with our People & Finance leadership teams to agree on an attractive and stage-appropriate Global Reward Strategy and Philosophy - ultimately ensuring engagement within the business at all levels.
• Lead annual benefit renewals and pay band reviews
• Partner with the business to predict and make decisions on compensation uplifts ensuring our high performers feel recognised
• Provide consultative and project management leadership across a range of other reward projects across the year. Examples of this might include: ensuring our share scheme is clear, future-proof and that we use the right tooling to support operational success, iterations to our commission scheme, bonus approach and more.
• Seamlessly running share scheme and bonus modelling
• Ensuring Reward links with our values and culture

Is this the job for me?

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• Deep specialism in multiple areas of Reward

• Strong personal impact, you connect with confidence and credibility across small or larger audiences, with stakeholders at all levels. 

• A pragmatic and commercial approach, with the ability to make recommendations that suit a business of our size and scale. (approximately 500 employees worldwide)
• Effective project management and operational awareness. You partner with others to achieve outcomes, you communicate effectively at all levels and you love driving progressive, automated outcomes.
• A practical ‘hands on’ approach and being happy to roll up your sleeves. 
• Highly analytical and problem-solving skills: you can take insight and turn it into real world solutions in a way that any employee can understand.

Ideally you will also have:

• International reward experience. Specific exposure to Australia and the USA would be a major plus!
• Some experience in the design and ongoing management of long-term incentive plans, such as share schemes. 
• Experience implementing new technology would be a plus
• Experience in a tech focused company 

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: 

We’re on a mission, We build together, We’re inclusive, We get it done, We communicate with purpose.

Read more about our values over on our careers site.

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.