Global Compensation & Benefits Consultant in London

Great things are happening in the Europe and Australia (EUAU) region. Each day, our 2,500 plus colleagues bring their passion to our offices, manufacturing sites, R&D centre, and commercial/distributor markets across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. We are energized by over 150 years of bringing people together with the food they love. With beloved brands Old El Paso, Häagen-Dazs, Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Fibre One, Latina Fresh and more, we are on a mission to become the undisputed growth leader in food for EUAU. In a world that’s ever-changing, we look to stay ahead and seek people who share our love of food and are hungry to shape the future.

As a Global Compensation & Benefits Consultant, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping fair, competitive, and inspiring reward programs that help our teams thrive across the globe. In this highly visible role, you’ll act as a trusted advisor to HR Business Partners, Talent Partners, and business leaders across international markets, bringing expertise in compensation, benefits, and total rewards strategy. You’ll help connect our business and talent strategies, ensuring that our reward programs not only attract and retain top talent but also reflect our culture, values, and long-term growth ambitions.

What your role is:

• You’ll consult on a wide range of global compensation and benefits topics — from guiding compensation philosophy and pay structures to ensuring our benefits frameworks stay competitive and compliant.
• Working closely with the Global Compensation team, you’ll support key annual processes such as Performance & Rewards cycles, Competitive Reviews, and program enhancements across international markets.
• Your day-to-day will include advising on job evaluations and benchmarking, supporting international HR teams on compensation decisions, and providing data-driven insights to inform global reward strategies.
• You’ll partner with local HR and Talent Acquisition to shape competitive offers and ensure internal equity across regions.
• Beyond compensation, you’ll take ownership of global benefits governance and analysis — maintaining a central inventory of programs by country, leading design reviews, and partnering with finance and HR to validate costs and model new initiatives.
• You’ll also help advance strategic projects such as the EU Pay Transparency Directive implementation and other regional reward compliance efforts.
• As a project lead, you’ll drive initiatives from concept to completion — creating work plans, aligning stakeholders, mitigating risks, and ensuring smooth execution of total rewards programs that make a measurable impact.

What you bring to the team:

• You’ll bring 5–7 years of experience in compensation and benefits, and proven ability to design and manage reward programs that drive business results.
• With a strong understanding of global compensation and benefits practices, particularly across European markets, you’re confident navigating complex structures, job evaluations, and incentive designs that balance competitiveness and fairness.
• Analytical and detail-oriented, you have advanced Excel skills and a talent for turning data into insight.
• You’re equally comfortable modelling financial outcomes as you are presenting recommendations to senior leaders — combining quantitative precision with clear, strategic communication.
• You thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed environment, partnering effectively with HR, Finance, and business leaders to deliver solutions that make an impact.
• You bring strong project management skills, a continuous improvement mindset, and the ability to juggle competing priorities with professionalism and poise.

Work with Heart offers us flexibility that also requires partnership to ensure we regularly come together in person for those moments that help drive our business forward. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 2 days per week in the office with the opportunity to finish at 15:00 on Fridays.

Wellbeing: We want our people to feel well and thrive, for this we offer free Headspace account for you and up to 5 friends or family members, ongoing activities, Employee Assistance Program and more.

Bonus: Our people are at the heart of what makes General Mills great, so when goals are reached, you’ll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Health & Dental Insurances: All colleagues get the opportunity to join our insurances from day one.

Family & Carers Leave: Every family is unique. Our approach allows every family to have the opportunity to spend quality time off to support them from the point of birth or adoption to care, with enhanced covers.

Enjoy other perks like enhanced pension contributions, subsidised canteen, access to both peer-to-peer recognition and discount platforms, extra days for volunteering work, and more.