Performance & Rewards Specialist
HybridBucharest, București, Romania
Job Summary
Support the Annual Compensation Review and EU Pay Transparency Directive across South and East Europe, ensuring fair, equitable, and transparent salary processes aligned with local legal requirements and approved budgets. Manage priority deliverables for bonus programmes, job frameworks, and benefits plans while maintaining and analysing pay ranges, benchmarking where required, and updating local participant lists for starters and leavers. Operate independently in a fast-paced environment to resolve governance issues, standardise digital delivery, and partner with HR Business Partners and People Services to implement policies that support a competitive compensation position.
Required Qualifications
- in depth experience as a compensation and benefits specialist in an international business environment
- direct experience in at least one, and preferably more, of the following SEE countries: Spain/Portugal, Poland, Romania, Italy and Serbia
- Experience supporting pay transparency initiatives
- knowledge of the EU Pay Transparency Directive and its impact on reward processes, pay structures, and regulatory requirements
- Demonstrable experience operating independently in a fast-paced reward environment
- confidence and credibility to manage multiple priorities
- ability to work through ambiguity
- ability to influence stakeholders
- ability to build trusted relationships with leadership, HR Business Partners and the wider People team
- Reward and industry benchmarking experience in one or more SEE countries
- process and operations oriented approach
- strong attention to detail and quality
- Strong Excel and analytical skills
- Excellent stakeholder management, interpersonal and communication skills
- ability to influence effectively
- Ability to interpret and analyse large, complex and sometimes challenging reward data
- Working internationally, across different industries and business lines and/or functions directly in Reward and/or wider People Services team
- being confident to bring new ideas to the Global Reward & Benefits Delivery Director and other stakeholders based on regional reward experience
- technology-confident, curious and comfortable using digital tools to support effective reward delivery
Desired Qualifications
- preferably more, of the following SEE countries: Spain/Portugal, Poland, Romania, Italy and Serbia
- experience across the following priority areas: Breadth of experience: Working internationally, across different industries and business lines and/or functions directly in Reward and/or wider People Services team
- Driving innovation: being confident to bring new ideas to the Global Reward & Benefits Delivery Director and other stakeholders based on regional reward experience
- Data and technology: technology-confident, curious and comfortable using digital tools to support effective reward delivery
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