Senior Total Rewards Analyst in Richmond

Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.

Overview

The Senior Total Rewards Analyst serves as a strategic partner in designing, supporting, and enhancing global compensation and benefits programs with a strong focus for the EMEA team. A critical component of this role is the partnership with Sales Operations to ensure Sales Incentive Plans (SIP) are high-performing, competitive, and strictly aligned with the organization’s overarching compensation philosophy and long-term strategy. This role requires a balance of rigorous data modeling, cross-functional influence, and global perspective.

Compensation & Incentives

• Sales Incentive Partnership: Collaborate closely with Sales Operations to co-design and audit sales incentive programs. Act as the bridge between Sales Ops and Total Rewards to ensure commission structures drive the right behaviours while remaining consistent with global pay equity and budget strategy.
• Annual Cycle Leadership: Lead the end-to-end execution of global annual salary planning and bonus cycles, ensuring a seamless link between performance and reward.
• Global Architecture: Manage global job architecture, pay structures, and ranges. Ensure internal equity and market competitiveness as the organization scales and evolves its global footprint.
• Market Intelligence: Oversee participation in global compensation and market pricing surveys. Translate data into actionable insights to validate pay positioning across diverse markets.
• Systems & Integration: Partner with HRIS to test and implement Workday compensation updates. Manage data audits, EIB loads, and resolve complex compensation inquiries (SNOW).
• Strategic Analytics: Conduct competitive market analysis to support talent acquisition, promotions, and retention, ensuring offers are competitive yet aligned with the total rewards framework.

Benefits (Role)

• Renewal Management: Direct the annual renewal cycle for international health, life, disability, and retirement schemes across EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.
• Regional Expertise: Manage the vendor lifecycle for specialized regions (e.g., Poland), ensuring Private Medical Care and local benefits remain market-leading.
• Employee Education: Develop and lead sessions to demystify complex topics—such as PPK/PPE participation or tax implications of cafeteria-style benefits—ensuring the "Total Rewards" value is clear to all team members.
• Compliance & Governance: Oversee the design and administration of global retirement schemes, ensuring rigorous adherence to local regulatory changes.

Strategic Partnership & Impact

• Cross-Functional Synergy: Act as a key consultant for People Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and Sales leadership. Co-design wellness programs and analyze engagement data to measure the global impact of rewards.
• Strategic Communications: Localize communication materials to help managers and team members understand the "Total Rewards" evolution in a culturally relevant and transparent way.
• Continuous Improvement: Lead ad-hoc projects aimed at process improvement, moving the department from manual "heroic efforts" toward scalable, automated workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in global compensation, benefits, or HR analytics, with strong knowledge of compensation practices and global regulatory requirements.
• Skilled in compensation survey submissions (e.g., Mercer, Radford, WTW) and experienced in developing or maintaining compensation ranges, salary structures, or job architecture.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong Workday proficiency, with experience supporting global benefits administration (preferred).
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities across global time zones.

Company Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package
• Comprehensive medical, dental and wellness program
• 25 vacation days annually plus an extra week of vacation from December 27 to 31 every year as year end break globally
• Formal and informal reward, recognition and acknowledgement programs
• Lots of fun in a globally set team with a global on-boarding program
• Local events and celebrations
• 4 volunteering days annually, to use with your charity of choice
• High-end IT equipment to support you from day one
• Ample employee development events, incl. learning platforms / tools
• Diversity and Inclusion programs worldwide

We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as your application progresses. Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process.