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:
1. 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.
2. 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:
3. Provides consulting support to the Company's employees and Line Managers, prepares information materials for employees on issues of compensation and benefits.
4. Prepares analytical information and completing salary/benefit surveys data and questionnaires (Mercer, Hay, etc.).
5. Afterwards provides the comparative analysis of the Company's practice and trends in the market in the area of benefits and salary range setting.
6. 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
7. 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
8. Conduct job evaluations for particular area of responsibility
9. 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.).
10. Provide C&B support during R&R awards process.
Requirements
11. Min. 2 years of experience in an HR role - ideally with exposure to C&B related topics
12. Ability to build good relationships
13. Good communicator (ideally experience with communication to works council) and team player
14. High customer-orientation
15. Negotiations skills
16. Attention to detail
17. Good problem solving, priority setting and analytical skills
18. Able to work independently and remotely
19. Technical Skills: Good MS Excel and/or other data analysing tools; market data platforms; personal information systems (Workday, SAP, Payroll systems)
20. Fluent English and at least B2 level in German
Additional Information:
21. 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.
22. The position requires the successful candidate to be fluent in German.