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Rewards Specialist

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  • 65,000-80,000
  • 05 Mar 2025
  • Dublin (West)
  • Permanent

Rewards Specialist

Are you a Rewards specialist looking for a chance to truly make your mark?  This is a key role in a newly formed, high-growth Total Rewards team. This is a unique opportunity to build and shape the compensation strategy and philosophy from the ground up, with real potential for career progression.  You'll be a vital part of designing and delivering best-practice reward solutions across compensation, recognition, pensions, and benefits, impacting the entire organization's ability to attract and retain top talent. If you're ready to take ownership and drive significant change, let's talk

Key Responsibilities

  • Actively contribute to design and execution of the compensation, benefit, and reward strategies and policies
  • Establish and maintain the annual compensation plan and manage its implementation in line with budget.
  • Lead and administer the annual reward review cycle, including salary and total compensation reviews, bonus plans, long term incentives, and market benchmarking.
  • Maintain compensation, benefits, and reward information in the HRIS system 
  • Develop, maintain and execute a Compensation, Benefits, and Reward cycle plan
  • Coach and support HRBPs and Line Managers to enhance their understanding and their support of the Reward policies and agenda
  • Conduct job evaluations, recommend pay grades, and oversee compensation data analysis and reporting.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to explain the job grading structure for existing staff and recruitment efforts.
  • Test the job structure against existing compensation and benefits, highlight outliers, and provide recommendations.
  • Manage benefit plans and enrolment process, including onboarding for new hires and annual renewals, whilst ensuring accuracy for Payroll processing 
  • Ensure compliance with statutory reporting such as but not limited to Gender Pay Gap Reporting, EU Pay Transparency.
  • Create Gender Pay Gap Report Templates and work with team to develop finalised reports for publication.
Experience/Requirements
  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Reward professional in a large matrixed organisation, or in a reward consulting capacity.
  • Extensive experience in developing compensation, benefit, and reward models, benchmarking, and crafting competitive total reward packages.
  • Strong operational understanding of Total Reward policies and programmes
  • Expertise in compensation, benefits, and reward management across all organisational levels.
  • Very strong analytical and numerical skills, with extensive experience of interpreting and producing high-quality, accurate management information.
  • Ability to complete and interpret Reward Surveys
  • Strong knowledge of job evaluation and job analysis systems and best practices.
  • Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to analyse data and manage complex projects effectively.
  • Proven ability to engage and influence senior management with confidence.
  • Strong project management skills – the ability to manage timely delivery of stakeholders and partners 
  • Excellent quantitative, analytical, communication, and influencing skills.

Remuneration Package

€65,000 - €80,000 plus bonus, pension and healtchare
Contact
For further information on this Compensation and Benefits Specialist role or other other HR roles, please contact Emma Anglim on 015927851 or E-mail me  or apply via the link

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