German Speaking Rewards Advisor

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:

• 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.
• 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:

• Provides consulting support to the Company's employees and Line Managers, prepares information materials for employees on issues of compensation and benefits.
• Prepares analytical information and completing salary/benefit surveys data and questionnaires (Mercer, Hay, etc.).
• Afterwards provides the comparative analysis of the Company's practice and trends in the market in the area of benefits and salary range setting.
• 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
• 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
• Conduct job evaluations for particular area of responsibility
• 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.).
• Provide C&B support during R&R awards process.

Requirements

• Min. 2 years of experience in an HR role - ideally with exposure to C&B related topics
• Ability to build good relationships
• Good communicator (ideally experience with communication to works council) and team player
• High customer-orientation
• Negotiations skills
• Attention to detail
• Good problem solving, priority setting and analytical skills
• Able to work independently and remotely
• Technical Skills: Good MS Excel and/or other data analysing tools; market data platforms; personal information systems (Workday, SAP, Payroll systems)
• Fluent English and at least B2 level in German

Additional Information:

• 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.
• The position requires the successful candidate to be fluent in German.