Head of Global Compensation & Benefits

at  RWS Group

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 will establishes the guidelines for global and local compensation plans as well as benefit program; 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

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrable experience leading a compensation and benefits function or ready to step up into a leadership role, within a large, complex, global business.
• Proven experience working with and supporting a plc RemCo/NomCo.
• In depth expertise of different compensation models, structure and vehicles.
• Familiarity with a number of different benchmarking surveys and approaches as well as job evaluation.
• Experience working across multiple geographies.
• Executive compensation experience.
• Experience creating balance scorecards and dealing with financial metrics and incentive plan KPI assessment.
• Proven senior stakeholder and leadership interaction and management skills. Including the ability to influence and collaborate effectively, to be seen as a true partner.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent leadership and development style to leading a small geographically dispersed team.
• Strong strategic approach to Reward balanced with a willingness to work hands-on with team.
• Proficient in data reporting and analysis.
• 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 unrivalled 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.
  We work with over 80% of the world’s top 100 brands, more than three-quarters of Fortune’s 20 ‘Most Admired Companies’ and almost all the top pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, law firms and patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. Our 65+ global locations across five continents service clients in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors.
  Over the past 20 years we’ve been evolving our own AI solutions as well as helping clients to explore, build and use multilingual AI applications. With 45+ AI-related patents and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, we have the experience and expertise to support clients on their AI journey.
  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.
  We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner with colleagues and clients, to adopt a pioneering spirit, to be positive in progressing the work we do, and always to deliver what we promise.

• Exercising judgement and influencing key stakeholders on reward and benefits matters in a way that monitors and maintains modern, inclusive and fair pay practices.
• Leading the strategy, design and execution the compensation, equity, and benefits programs to help attract and retain the best talent, all while balancing bottom line and business objectives.
• 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.
• Manage relationships with external market data providers and ensure salary structures are accurately designed and market benchmarked.
• Leading the reward cycle and working closely with the global teams in delivering annual processes and collaborating HR team to tailor reward strategies to different markets.
• Advises and supports 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.
• Conducts 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.
• Designs and led the salary review and bonus process.
• Advises HR and functional leaders to ensure competitive pay rates and benefits programs for employee retention or recognition
• Provision of accurate, timely and actionable data insight to support business planning.
• Create and revise employee benefits policies to assess whether they are current, competitive and legal
• Promote and communicate company benefits and compensation policies
• Works with company leaders on creating the strategy and guidelines for equity-sharing programs as required
• Ensure compliance with local compensation and benefits requirements