Global Reward Specialist

Sought after by companies, a Reward Consultant is responsible for implementing the Performance and Reward Strategy and Services. As part of the Global Reward function, this role provides analytical support to global reward projects including market pricing, pay range development, compensation benchmarking and analysis, and reporting and analysis for compensation reviews.

This position leads the compensation survey submissions, job matching, and benchmarking studies with globally sourced vendors, collaborating closely with local and country reward team members to prepare and review submissions. The successful candidate will have experience in job matching, compensation survey submissions, benchmarking, market analysis, project management, and possess strong communication skills to engage with internal stakeholders and external vendors.

• Lead the compensation survey submissions, detailing activities, timelines, communication plans, and providing necessary tools or templates to facilitate the submissions.
• Project manage compensation survey submissions, and provide guidance to Region/Country Reward leaders throughout the submission process to review and validate benchmarking and employee data sets, ensuring high-quality submissions and internal matching.
• Prepare and conduct reward analysis, then synthesize findings from the analysis into visual graphs, storytelling, and presentations for various stakeholders.
• Liaise directly with external benchmarking vendors and lead the contract renewal for survey contracts and administration.

• Strong business acumen – ability to focus specialism initiatives on priorities and collaborate with internal network.
• Strong knowledge of the Talent strategy, trends, leading practices, services, and solutions and external benchmarking surveys.
• Ability to establish and manage virtual networks across diverse and dispersed geographies.
• Strong teaming skills; collaborate effectively across talent ecosystem and wider firm.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail - the ability to operate within effective time frames.
• Strong research and analytical skills to track and interpret trending directions for specialism and identify potential future options.
• Advanced technical skills (prefer) to perform complex analysis and reporting in Excel and other software, including Power BI, SQL, and other tools.

• Due to the global nature of the role; travel and willingness to work alternative hours will be required.
• Due to the global nature of the role; excellent written and verbal communication will be required.

• Bachelor/master's degree in HR/other studies & postgraduate diploma in HR (or completed HR courses).

• 6-8 years of experience in a Reward role bringing insights and experience of service design and delivery.
• Demonstrable experience of collaborating with Talent or business colleagues to understand and interpret business issues and of proposing/recommending appropriate action.
• Strong experience in working effectively in globally dispersed teams to enhance services, frameworks, processes, and standards.
• Demonstrable experience of working in a central team to manage networks and of sharing insights and best practices to help enhance service delivery and performance at a local level.
• Demonstrable experience of working flexibly as part of a project team/squad to provide subject matter expertise and ensure the effective design and quality of service solutions.
• Demonstrable experience of working in fast-paced, ambiguous, stressful environments to deliver required results.