Position Title: Rewards Advisor (German Speaking)
Duration: Contract - 6 Months
Hours: 36 hours per week - Monday - Friday (Hybrid 2/3 days in the office)
Location: Bournville, Birmingham
Purpose of the role:
* Support My Rewards Lead in providing Compensation & Benefits (C&B) tools to enable the Client to attract, retain and motivate its employees with a competitive remuneration package.
* Coordinate C&B related HR processes/activities and provide professional C&B support to BU/CU/Country/Unit Line Managers and People Lead(s) to apply companies' C&B Policies, Practices and Guidelines in a consistent way.
Main Responsibilities:
* Provides consulting support to the Company's employees and Line Managers, prepares information materials for employees on issues of compensation and benefits.
* Prepares analytical information and completing salary/benefit surveys data and questionnaires (Mercer, Hay, etc.).
* Afterwards provides the comparative analysis of the Company's practice and trends in the market in the area of benefits and salary range setting.
* Coordinate annual Year End Review Cycle: verifying all the data in Workday; ensure all mistakes are corrected; test and check calculations in Workday including MIP and Merit Increase
* Performs activities related to local benefit programs as required in his/her countries, coordinates changes to benefit enrolment during employment due to life events or another ad hoc individual request, performs benefits program changes: Runs ad hoc scenarios, provides findings to COE and implements
* Conduct job evaluations for particular area of responsibility
* Participate in design and implement locally all the additional salary increases or one-off bonuses, payments due to different reasons (Off-Cycle Increases, PiR adjustments, devaluation of local currency etc.).
* Provide C&B support during R&R awards process.
Requirements
* Min. 2 years of experience in an HR role - ideally with exposure to C&B related topics
* Ability to build good relationships
* Good communicator (ideally experience with communication to works council) and team player
* High customer-orientation
* Negotiations skills
* Attention to detail
* Good problem solving, priority setting and analytical skills
* Able to work independently and remotely
* Technical Skills: Good MS Excel and/or other data analysing tools; market data platforms; personal information systems (Workday, SAP, Payroll systems)
* Fluent English and at least B2 level in German
Additional Information:
* The position is hybrid roles and the successful candidate must attend the office a minimum of 2-3 days per week, so need to be located within a commutable distance from Bourneville.
* The position requires the successful candidate to be fluent in German.