Human Resources and RecruitmentFull-TimeEntry-level(0-1 yr)
Job Description
Role Overview
The Total Rewards Specialist provides leadership through technical expertise, analytics, stakeholder influence, and project management to ensure fair, competitive, and well-governed reward practices across EABL. This role is central to maintaining compensation standards and aligning reward strategies with business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Reward Benchmarking Cycle: Accountable for the annual salary benchmarking cycle by guaranteeing the quality, reliability, and relevance of the survey data from our survey providers. Provide commercially focused analytical insights critical for compensation management, such as identifying pay gaps, outliers, and risks. This extends to Independent Non-Executive Directors (INED) Remuneration Surveys.
Annual Reward Cycle (ARC): Lead the implementation of the benchmarking outcomes and recommendations in the Annual Reward Cycle at the business unit level. Provide reward expertise and guidance to the HR Business Partners and functional leads in the calibrations ensuring adherence to the merit budgets.
Fair Pay Initiatives: Support with the delivery of Fair Pay including Pay Equity and Living Wage analysis programs to align with the ambition of being a modern and forward-thinking employer.
Reward Communication and Engagement: Develop and lead all aspects of the yearly reward communication and participation plan to improve reward capability that fosters employee engagement and performance.
Policy Development: Participate in shaping and developing new reward programs, policies, and principles in line with business priorities.
Partnership with Finance: Partner with the finance teams for people cost planning and budget modelling in line with the business planning cycle.
Job Evaluation: Participate and support in the job evaluation process, maintaining the job evaluation policy and approval frameworks.
Incentive Execution: Support with the design and execution of short-term incentives ensuring adherence to the set incentive frameworks.
Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA): Partner with the Supply teams to provide macro-economic insights to support with the union CBA negotiations.
Business As Usual (BAU) Support: Serve as the first point of contact for HR Business Partners, Talent Engagement, People Managers, and employees for business-as-usual queries (e.g., advising on affordability of pay decisions and policy interpretation).
Vendor Management: Act as the main contact for compensation-related third-party providers, ensuring services are delivered effectively according to Service Level Agreements and the reward standard.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
A university undergraduate degree in either business or social sciences.
A postgraduate HR diploma or relevant HR professional qualification is an added advantage.
A professional accounting or finance qualification is an added advantage.