Overview
Here at Harding+, we are recruiting for a Compensation & Benefits Specialist to join our growing HR team.
It’s a great time to join our team, as a growing and scaling retailer with a twist, working and innovating together helps us realise our purpose to ‘make every cruise better’.
Role location: Avonmouth on a hybrid working basis – 2 days per week in the office.
What You Will Be Doing
As our Compensation & Benefits Specialist, you’ll work closely with our payroll provider to ensure every payment is accurate and on time. You will own the smooth, effective management of our employee benefits and incentive schemes for colleagues in our UK and USA hub offices, as well as our shipboard teams across the global fleet. You’ll oversee processes from gathering and validating data through to final processing, reporting, analytics, and communication, working with the wider HR team, Finance, and operational colleagues to keep everything running seamlessly. You’ll build and maintain strong partnerships with service providers and vendors, ensuring our payroll, benefits, and incentive programmes are compliant and efficient to deliver value across multiple jurisdictions.
You’ll manage expenses processes with precision, act as HR systems administrator for our Reward Gateway to maintain data integrity, and build relationships with providers and internal stakeholders to keep service levels high. Continuous improvement will be key; you’ll identify and deliver improvements in accuracy and cost-effectiveness, while supporting HR transformation projects that enhance our benefits, payroll systems, and incentive programmes.
About You
* Proven experience partnering with third party payroll providers
* Experience managing benefits and incentive/commission schemes
* Strong understanding of compliance requirements, systems and best practice across all three areas
* Excellent attention to detail and strong numerical skills
* Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex compensation and benefits data
* Skilled in vendor and stakeholder management
* Demonstrated ability to identify and deliver process improvements
* Strong communication skills, able to explain complex information clearly to non-specialist audiences
Compensation and Benefits
Competitive salary, bonus scheme, pension, 4 x life assurance, healthcare cash plan, 26 days annual leave (plus the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days).
About Harding+
Harding+ is the only 100% dedicated cruise retailer, partnering with 12 cruise line operators globally, across more than 80 ships. Our mission is simple: make every cruise better. We operate over 300 retail shops across 80+ ships, handling 6.6 million transactions annually. Our team includes over 1,300 onboard and more than 270 landside employees. We are an equal opportunities employer and value a diverse workforce. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a priority for Harding+.
Employment Details
* Seniority level: Entry level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Human Resources
* Industries: Retail
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