Director-level pay advisory for UK businesses

Every pay question your business has, resolved.

Vitek Sobr Vitek SobrMost recently Director of Reward at Marston's. Pay, grading and benefits for a multi-site UK workforce, run at board level.

Pay reviews that run to plan. Grading everyone understands and you can defend. Salaries checked against the market. Director-level answers without a director-level hire.

20 minutes, free. You leave with a proposed direction either way.

She's threatening to leave over pay

Counter-offer needed by Friday

The board wants a bonus scheme by Q3

Why does Tom earn more than me?

Two people, same job, £14k apart

Is £52k fair for this role?

Do we need salary bands?

Payroll is up 9% and I can't explain why

Are we underpaying our engineers?

What do we say in the pay review this year?

New hire offer is above the whole team

Can we afford 5% across the board?

Questions I get askedSee the answers

Two ways to get senior reward expertise.

Bring me into the team when priorities are moving, or buy a defined project when the outcome is clear. Scope and terms agreed before any work starts.

Flexible reward support

Bring me in.

Director-level reward capacity without a permanent hire - interim cover, recurring fractional leadership or extra project hands, usually 1–3 days a week. I plug in, hit the ground running, and leave you with working tools.

Priced by the day · scope agreed upfront

FOR WORK THAT NEEDS A PERSON IN THE ROOM

Fixed-scope projects

Buy the fix.

A defined set of problems, taken through to a usable result - as agreed in the scope. Deliverables, timing and price in writing before work starts - no meter running.

Fixed fee · agreed before work starts

FOR THE PROBLEM YOU CAN ALREADY NAME

Or do it yourself Pay Review Pack complimentary Salary Band Builder All the tools & templates

Which one is yours?

Pick the problem that bites hardest.

Running a pay review? Do it without the 11pm spreadsheet panic.

A costed, fair, defensible cycle - modelled and ready to land. Or take the pack and start tonight.

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The quiet cost of winging it.

Reward problems do not announce themselves. They show up as a resignation, a grievance, or a pay range you cannot defend.

A regretted leaver costs you their salary again to replace. Nobody wrote ‘pay’ on the exit form. It was pay.

From June 2026, EU Pay Transparency rules reach in-scope UK-linked employers. Eligible employees can ask for the pay range and the average. A shrug is not an answer.

The spreadsheet works right up until someone asks why Sarah is a Grade 4 and Tom isn't. That day is already in your diary, you just haven't seen it.

Run the defensible pay scorecard

What the big firms won't do.

Mercer and WTW will sell you a 200-page survey for five figures. I tell you what to do with it, by Thursday.

Forwardable.

Everything arrives ready to hand on: the board paper goes to the board, the manager pack goes to managers. If it needs translating first, it isn't finished.

24-48h

Days, not quarters. Built with AI where it's faster, checked by a Director where it matters.

Try before you buy.

Working tools you can run on your own numbers before a penny moves.

This is for you if...

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Start with a working tool.

Take the tool, use it, come back when you want the tailored version.

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Also in the kit: the Pay transparency readiness quiz

Vitek Sobr

I used to do this from the inside.

Most recently Director of Reward at Marston's - pay, grading and benefits for a multi-site UK workforce, run at board level. The kind of reward function most businesses never get to have in-house.

Resolve Reward makes it available anyway: by the day, for the project, or as a packaged fix. Every layer done at director level - the analysis, the modelling, the board paper - and yours to keep.

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Got a reward problem? Let's name it in 20 minutes.

A free call for you to name your problems. You leave with my proposed direction - tailored to you.

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