About the role

  • Senior Reward Manager managing global compensation initiatives aligned with business objectives. Focused on equity, transparency, and strategic oversight across various locations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of the Group’s annual salary review, bonus and year-end reward processes, ensuring alignment with business strategy and culture.
  • Provide strategic oversight of quarterly bonus accruals, modelling scenarios with Country HR Directors to inform Group-level bonus pool recommendations.
  • Direct the Group’s benchmarking strategy, including provider selection and peer group definition, to ensure competitive and sustainable market positioning.
  • Own the Group-wide year-end delivery plan, ensuring high-quality analysis and recommendations for Executive and RemCo decision-making.
  • Translate complex data, modelling and insights into clear strategic recommendations influencing senior leadership and RemCo outcomes.
  • Own and evolve the Group job grading framework, ensuring consistency, scalability and alignment with organisational growth and talent needs.
  • Oversee global salary frameworks, including pay ranges and progression principles, maintaining internal equity and external competitiveness.
  • Provide governance and modelling oversight for long-term incentives and associated systems, ensuring accuracy, integrity and compliance.
  • Act as the senior reward expert on pay transparency, equal pay and regulatory reporting, ensuring Group compliance and best-practice governance.
  • Lead the design and delivery of Total Reward Statements and broader reward communication strategies to enhance employee understanding and engagement.
  • Partner with the Performance & Reward Director on reward strategy for M&A activity, integrations and organisational change.
  • Serve as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, bringing thought leadership on global reward trends, emerging practices and technology-enabled reward solutions.

Requirements

  • Extensive technical expertise across all aspects of Reward, including short- and long-term incentives, policy, governance and market positioning.
  • Experience owning job architecture, job evaluation methodology (e.g., WTW), and enterprise-wide grading frameworks.
  • Proven capability in leading complex benchmarking strategies, interpreting global compensation data (e.g., WTW, McLagan, Aon) and crafting strategic insights.
  • Highly advanced analytical and financial modelling skills, with strong Excel capability and the ability to present complex data clearly for senior decision-makers.
  • Strong understanding of pay transparency requirements and statutory reporting.
  • Demonstrated success operating across multi-country, multi-business organisations, ideally within Europe (including Italy, Portugal, Netherlands).
  • Outstanding communication and influencing skills, with experience advising Senior Leadership.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and lead through change, providing clarity and direction.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development
  • Bonuses

Job title

Senior Reward Manager

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

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