Position:                       Interim Head of Global Compensation & Benefits

Location:                      Maidenhead – though flexible

Reporting to:                 CHRO

 

RWS

RWS Holdings plc is a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property services. Through content transformation and multilingual data analysis, our unique combination of technology and cultural expertise helps our clients to grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language.

Our purpose is unlocking global understanding. By combining cultural understanding, client understanding and technical understanding, our services and technology assist our clients to acquire and retain customers, deliver engaging user experiences, maintain compliance and gain actionable insights into their data and content.

Our clients include 90 of the world’s top 100 brands, the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and 19 of the top 20 patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America. We work in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from 80+ global locations across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L). For further information please visit www.rws.com.

 

The Role

The Head of Global Compensation & Benefits is a key role within the HR leadership team and will work closely with HR VPs and functional HR leaders to deliver C&B programmes, practices and processes that support RWS values and enable the attraction, engagement and retention of talent. The incumbent will be accountable for the strategy, implementation and operations of all compensation (including base and variable) and employee benefits programs and processes globally across the group including educating managers to ensure programmes are fully understood.

This position will establish the guidelines for global and local compensation and benefit plans, providing specialist guidance and assistance to the divisions and countries/locations, whilst ensuring compliance and advising on innovative and creative ways that deliver meaningful reward solutions that promote engagement, aid attraction and retention.

This role will work closely with the group senior leadership team and executives and will play a pivotal role in driving change within the group that will provide a consistent approach to reward.

 

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, design and execution of compensation and benefits programmes to attract and retain the best talent in line with budget and business objectives, including participation in the design of equity-based compensation plans.
• Influencing key leaders and stakeholders on reward and benefits matters in a way that monitors and maintains modern, inclusive and fair pay practices.
• Identify and select a group wide Career Framework solution that is robust, easy to use and understand to ensure consistency and fairness and will provide a clear career path to employees so they understand how they can develop and progress at RWS
• Identify appropriate external market data providers and manage relationships to ensure salary structures are accurately designed, benchmarked and remain competitive using the most relevant market segment data to drive performance and aid attraction and retention.
• Identify and source Global Benefits Broker to fully understand benefits offering, meet any governance requirements and use economies of scale to drive cost efficiencies that could result in benefit changes/enhancements. Create and revise employee benefits policies to ensure they are current, competitive and meet local legal requirements.
• Advise and support the development and execution of short-term and long-range compensation plans and budgets based on group / divisional goals, acquisitions, strategic plans and growth objectives.
• Lead the annual reward cycle and collaborate with HR leadership team in order to deliver reward strategies that support different market segments. Collaborate with Finance to ensure budgets are correctly set and future spend is planned for.
• Design and lead the group salary review and bonus processes, including selection of any technology that is used in order to have streamlined and time saving processes. Ensure bonus and commission plans are fit for purpose and over time are aligned on key design parameters to ensure consistency and competitiveness where appropriate.
• Support general ad hoc activities including - Advise HR and functional leaders to ensure competitive pay, internal equity and benefits programs for employee retention or recognition ; Provision of accurate, timely and actionable data insight to support business planning ; consider need for group wide recognition programme in line with RWS values to drive engagement ; Ensure effective communication and promotion of company benefits and compensation policies ; Involvement in M&A activity as and when required ; Preparation of required documentation for Remco meetings ; Manage all 3^rd party provider relationships to ensure efficiencies and best value for money.

 

Desired Skills and Competencies

• Demonstrable experience leading a compensation and benefits function or ready to step up into a leadership role, within a large, complex, global business.
• In depth expertise of different compensation models, structures and vehicles.
• Familiarity with a number of different benchmarking surveys and approaches as well as job evaluation.
• Experience working across multiple geographies.
• Executive compensation experience.
• Proven senior stakeholder and leadership interaction and management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to work hands-on with team.
• Experience of managing a small team of analysts
• Proficient in data reporting and analysis.
• Experience in managing multi-country compensation and benefits programs.
• Leverage technology to drive efficiency and integration of relevant compensation benefit data into relevant HR system(s).

 

Life at RWS - If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about breaking down language barriers and giving back to their communities, then you’ll love life at RWS.

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career.

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner with colleagues and clients, to adopt a pioneering spirit, to be positive in progressing the work we do, and always to deliver what we promise.

 

Equal Opportunity - RWS embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind.  RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.

 

Recruitment Agencies: RWS Group PLC does not accept agency resumes.  Please do not forward any unsolicited resumes to any RWS employees.  Any unsolicited resume received will be treated as the property of RWS and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such resume will be considered null and void.