Compensation and Benefits Manager

About the role

As a trusted Compensation & Benefits Manager, you will play a key role in shaping our Compensation & Benefits strategy and operations globally. ensuring alignment with the company’s Global Compensation & Benefits Strategy. You will be part of a global C&B PMO team, which leads the design and implementation of our largest global projects and initiatives. You will engage in project management, planning, execution, and delivery of key compensation processes such as the annual compensation cycle, Workday enhancements, incentive system design, and workforce architecture maintenance. You will use your data first mindset and project management skills to help deliver projects on time, with quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, analyze, and implement global compensation programs and projects
• Taking a leading part in the Workday requirements design, testing and execution for items such as Annual Bonus and Merit Increase Planning, ensuring Workday system readiness and deploying guidelines, providing respective training to stakeholders
• Taking a leading part in the Workday enhancement projects, testing, acting as a Compensation SME for Workday matters, optimizing system functionality
• Complete data audits and demonstrate a solid understanding of handling EIBs, mass loads and data validations
• Working closely with HR, Finance, EIT, TA and Payroll teams to optimize compensation and benefits processes and their implementation in Workday
• Support job architecture and mapping evaluations, collaborating with global and local HR teams to advance the global Workforce Architecture (WFA)
• Participate in salary, benefits, and market surveys, analyzing cost trends to benchmark company compensation programs
• Provide strategic consultation to HR on compensation decisions, policies, and guidelines
• Develop dashboards and analyze data to drive decision making
• Ensure governance for all compensation and benefits processes, driving compliance and efficiency
• Contribute to transformational Compensation & Benefits projects, providing expertise to ensure successful delivery
• Manage monthly, bi-annual, and annual accruals, forecasts, and simulations
• Develop and implement pay range structures, ensuring competitive compensation frameworks
• Support global mobility cases and ad-hoc projects
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Compensation & Benefits or a related field
• Strong expertise in Workday, particularly in compensation and benefits modules, Core and Advanced Compensation, previous experience with running merit cycles, bonus payout cycles in Workday
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel and HR analytics tools
• Data-driven mindset, with strong attention to detail and analytical skills
• Ability to work independently, managing complex projects with end-to-end ownership
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a collaborative approach to problem-solving
• Fluency in English
  

Additional Information

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
  

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.For more information, visit NIQ.comWant to keep up with our latest updates?Follow us on: LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

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NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/news-center/diversity-inclusion