Overview
In this role, you provide expert compensation advice across the Americas and EMEA to guide pay decisions, structures and reward investments. You partner with business leaders, People Teams and Compensation Partners to balance priorities and deliver practical recommendations that strengthen attraction, retention and business performance. You lead salary structure development, market pricing and pay equity efforts, while steering annual salary reviews and reward programs. You influence strategy through independent analysis of market and workforce trends, shaping fair and competitive rewards. This is a chance to drive meaningful impact within a collaborative, global team at GHD.
Responsibilities
- Partner with business leaders and People Teams across Americas and EMEA to understand compensation needs and provide guidance on remuneration decisions
- Evaluate options, trade-offs and risks to recommend practical and commercially sound compensation solutions
- Support leaders through complex remuneration discussions and decisions
- Lead development and maintenance of salary ranges across regions using market data and compensation principles
- Conduct regional pay equity reviews and implement actions to improve equity outcomes
- Ensure survey matching methodologies and market data stay accurate
- Lead annual salary review activities and develop salary budget recommendations with stakeholders
- Govern reward program governance and delivery, including VRP where required
- Lead complex compensation analyses and translate data into actionable insights
- Develop and improve compensation frameworks, tools and guidance
- Oversee compensation learning and education for People Teams, leaders and employees
- Strengthen consistency and scalability of compensation practices across regions
- Develop trusted relationships with BPLs and People Teams and align with business needs
- Deliver independent recommendations on complex compensation matters
- Complete significant compensation projects quarterly
Key requirements
- relationship-building
- clear communication
- commercial judgment
- market pricing
- pay equity analysis
- salary benchmarking
Senior Compensation Advisor in Whitby employer: GHD
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