Total Rewards Partner (m/f/d)

Tasks inspiring you

• Build on initial role-clustering work and existing local grading practices to design and roll out one consistent, gender-neutral global job architecture and levelling framework across all countries.

• Bring together compensation and benefit practices into one transparent company-wide standard and align local salary bands.

• Establish our baseline equal-pay analysis, gender pay gap reporting and pay transparency workflows ahead of EU Pay Transparency Directive deadlines.

• Design and guide the first company-wide annual salary review and variable pay cycle on the new architecture.

• Own the global job architecture, gender-neutral evaluation methodology and job description standard, keeping levels and pay bands consistent with German agreements on compensation.

• Design and maintain base salary structures, local salary bands and variable pay frameworks using market benchmarks, and lead the annual salary review and bonus cycles.

• Own company pension and benefit design, vendor renewals and cost governance, while HR Operations handles day-to-day administration.

• Lead equal-pay analyses, statutory pay gap reporting and EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance, and prepare technical reward data and levelling criteria for works council co-determination with the Employee and Labor Relations Manager.

Qualifications that inspire us

Must-haves

• Proven hands-on experience designing and managing compensation and benefits frameworks, including analytical job evaluation, job architecture design, international salary banding and annual pay cycles.

• Strong working knowledge of the EU Pay Transparency Directive, equal-value evaluation criteria, statutory pay gap reporting and preparing reward frameworks for the Works Council co-determination.

• Advanced spreadsheet and multi-currency financial data modelling skills across multiple legal entities.

• Fluency in both German and English (written and spoken, required to draft German reward policies and works agreement schedules and to lead global compensation cycles in English).

• Based in Germany with the right to work and live in EU

Nice-to-haves

• Experience bringing together multi-country job levelling and benefit structures across multiple business units or international subsidiaries.

• Experience in Software Development / Tech companies.

• Working proficiency in another language of our operating countries

Hybrid model 40% onsite.