Head of Comp & HRIS
HybridMadrid, Madrid, Spain
Job Summary
Own and administer Nexthink's global compensation framework across 19 countries, maintaining job architecture, grade profiles, and salary bands while running the annual merit and bonus cycles end-to-end. Lead the HRIS team and serve as the senior Workday authority, making binding design decisions on compensation module configuration and ensuring data governance for payroll confidence. Drive the People & Talent AI adoption roadmap by deploying automation onboarding workflows, policy Q&A, and cycle processes, establishing a clear ROI measurement framework for every deployment. Advise HR Business Partners on offer and retention decisions and partner with Finance on headcount cost modelling and people data inputs for financial planning. This Director-level role reports directly to the Chief People Officer, managing the intersection of Total Rewards, Workday implementation, and HR transformation in a hybrid environment.
Required Qualifications
- Senior Total Rewards, Compensation, or HR Technology leadership experience
- Experience administering and evolving compensation frameworks
- Experience running benchmarking cycles
- Experience managing annual merit and bonus programs
- Experience at a global company
- Workday expertise in HCM and Advanced Compensation
- Understanding of how Workday is structured
- Ability to make informed design decisions alongside a technical implementation team
- Ability to hold a Workday partner accountable to HR requirements
- People management experience
- Ability to develop HRIS or HR operations professionals
- Ability to build a high-trust, high-output team
- A genuine track record of driving process change through technology or automation
- Experience building or deploying automation that produced measurable outcomes
- Strong analytical fluency
- Comfort modelling compensation scenarios
- Ability to build geo-differentiated salary band frameworks
- Ability to present methodology to a CFO or senior leadership team
- Ability to operate effectively in a global, multi-currency environment
- Experience with payroll complexity
- Experience with EOR arrangements
- Experience with multi-country data considerations
- Excellent stakeholder communication
- Ability to translate complex compensation and systems decisions into clear guidance for HRBPs, managers, Finance partners, and senior leadership
- #LI-Hybrid
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