Senior Lead, Compensation & Benefits (All Genders)
As Senior Lead, Compensation & Benefits, you will play a critical role in shaping zooplus’s global reward strategy. You’ll design forward-looking approaches to compensation and benefits that attract, motivate, and retain top talent across Europe. This is a senior specialist role with high visibility, where you’ll partner closely with business leaders, the executive team, and People & Culture colleagues to ensure our reward framework drives both employee engagement and business growth.
You’ll not only lead on core reward processes but also act as a thought partner to the business, bringing external insights, shaping new initiatives, and ensuring our practices remain competitive, fair, and transparent.
Key Responsibilities
- Reward Strategy & Design: Lead the development and ongoing evolution of zooplus’ compensation philosophy and global reward framework, balancing market competitiveness, internal equity, and business needs.
- Executive & Senior Stakeholder Engagement: Advise senior leaders and partner with the executive team on reward decisions, pay structures, and incentive design.
- Annual Reward Cycle Leadership: Drive all reward-related processes linked to performance and talent cycles, ensuring seamless delivery and strong business alignment.
- Incentives & Recognition: Shape and oversee bonus, long term incentive, and recognition programs, ensuring they are motivating, sustainable, and aligned with company priorities.
- Benefits Strategy: Partner with local teams to refine and evolve benefits offerings across Europe, ensuring relevance, consistency, and employee impact.
- Pay Transparency & Governance: Lead initiatives that promote fairness and transparency while staying ahead of evolving European regulatory requirements.
- Job Architecture & Career Frameworks: Oversee and enhance our job architecture, ensuring clear career pathways and alignment with pay structures.
- Data, Insights & Market Intelligence: Provide senior leadership with robust analysis, benchmarks, and insights to inform decision-making and future strategy.
- Change Leadership: Act as a champion for simplification and modernization in reward processes, bringing a continuous improvement mindset.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive experience in Compensation & Benefits, with exposure to international and complex business environments.
- Proven track record of designing and implementing compensation strategies and incentive programs.
- Strong knowledge of European (particularly German) compensation practices and regulatory trends.
- Skilled at engaging and influencing senior leaders, with confidence presenting to executive-level stakeholders.
- Experience leading complex reward cycles, driving process improvements, and embedding change.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into insights and strategic recommendations.
- Experience with compensation systems (Workday preferred) and familiarity with both monetary and non-monetary reward approaches.
Additional Information
With more than 1,000 passionate professionals located across 6 European offices, we believe our success comes from working together and leveraging our international strengths. Expect a hybrid work setup: 60% in-office, 40% remote, collaborating with colleagues across locations.
Our benefits:
20% discount in our zooplus shop
Internal and external training
Team events
28 vacation days and days off on 24th and 31st of December
Corporate rates at a local gym chain (Body & Soul)
Company mobile phone for work and personal use
Want to know more? Learn more about zooplus here, and check out our LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube to get a glimpse into the zooplus culture.
zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.
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