Job Purpose:
The Head of Global Compensation & Benefits is accountable for the strategy, implementation, and operations of all compensation and employee benefits programs and processes globally. This position establishes the guidelines for global and local compensation plans as well as benefit programs; providing special guidance and assistance to the divisions and locations, ensuring compliance, while advising on innovative and creative ways to compensate colleagues to provide useful benefits that promote engagement, aid retention, and attraction.
Location: Maidenhead – 2 days per week in the office/hybrid
About RWS HR:
Our business is nothing without our people. As part of our global Human Resources team, you will be supporting over 8,000 people across 100 legal entities in 43 different countries. We have a vibrant and nurturing culture where everyone can learn, grow, and thrive. We also love ideas and exploring new ways of doing things, united by our love of language.
Job Overview:
Key Responsibilities:
1. Exercising judgement and influencing key stakeholders on reward and benefits matters in a way that monitors and maintains modern, inclusive, and fair pay practices.
2. Leading the strategy, design, and execution of the compensation, equity, and benefits programs to help attract and retain the best talent, all while balancing bottom line and business objectives.
3. Supporting the RemCo in its annual remuneration cycle, with particular emphasis on the Senior Leadership bonus plans and remuneration levels, external benchmarking with similar AIM listed organisations, LTIPs/RSAs, DRR and reporting more broadly for UK Gender Pay Gap/EU pay transparency.
4. Managing relationships with external market data providers and ensuring salary structures are accurately designed and market benchmarked.
5. Leading the reward cycle and working closely with the global teams in delivering annual processes and collaborating with the HR team to tailor reward strategies to different markets.
6. Advising and supporting in the development and execution of short-term and long-range plans and budgets based on group/divisional goals, acquisitions, strategic planning, and growth objectives.
7. Conducting salary benchmark analysis to update the compensation strategy as appropriate and to identify opportunities in compensation that result in additional benefits for the employee or savings to the company.
8. Designing and leading the salary review and bonus process.
9. Advising HR and functional leaders to ensure competitive pay rates and benefits programs for employee retention or recognition.
10. Provision of accurate, timely, and actionable data insight to support business planning.
11. Creating and revising employee benefits policies to assess whether they are current, competitive, and legal.
12. Promoting and communicating company benefits and compensation policies.
13. Working with company leaders on creating the strategy and guidelines for equity-sharing programs as required.
14. Ensuring compliance with local compensation and benefits requirements.
Skills & Experience:
1. Demonstrable experience leading a compensation and benefits function or ready to step up into a leadership role, within a large, complex, global business.
2. Proven experience working with and supporting a plc RemCo/NomCo.
3. In-depth expertise of different compensation models, structure, and vehicles.
4. Familiarity with a number of different benchmarking surveys and approaches as well as job evaluation.
5. Experience working across multiple geographies.
6. Executive compensation experience.
7. Experience creating balance scorecards and dealing with financial metrics and incentive plan KPI assessment.
8. Proven senior stakeholder and leadership interaction and management skills, including the ability to influence and collaborate effectively, to be seen as a true partner.
9. Strong written and verbal communication skills.
10. Excellent leadership and development style to lead a small geographically dispersed team.
11. Strong strategic approach to Reward balanced with a willingness to work hands-on with the team.
12. Proficient in data reporting and analysis.
13. Experience in managing multi-country compensation and benefits programs.
Life at RWS:
At RWS, we’re here for one purpose: unlocking global understanding.
As a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services, we remove the barriers to communication to make global connection possible. Our unrivaled experience and deep understanding of language have been developed over more than 60 years. As we look to shape the future, our ambition is to create a world where understanding is universal for everyone.
If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about breaking down language barriers and giving back to their communities, then you’ll love life at RWS. Our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive, and believe that diversity makes us strong.
RWS Values:
Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as One RWS.
RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
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