Reward Director

Summary

Join Pleo as our Reward Director to lead, innovate, and transform our global reward processes. You will oversee salary, benefits, equity, and pension across 12+ locations, creating a competitive and fair strategy. Leading a small team, you will report to the Chief People Officer and collaborate with various stakeholders. This high-impact role requires analytical thinking, international experience, and the ability to drive transformation. If you have experience building reward processes from the ground up and possess strong stakeholder management skills, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Requirements

• Think analytically and interpret data to recommend and create solutions
• Have experience in international companies and confidence working with offering and rewards in various locations
• Have experience working in a scaling and fast paced company, having previously built reward processes from the ground up
• Have the ability to drive transformation in a complex environment
• Have high emotional intelligence and strong communication skills
• Have worked with pension, salaries, equity and benefits previously
• Have strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence outcomes
• Have the ability to lead, mentor and develop a high-performing reward team
• Have a commercial mindset with experience of sales compensation
• Have the ability to ask the right questions and understand the problem space fully before decision making

Responsibilities

• Own and manage external reward tools and resources, build vendor relationships and become our undisputed guru on competitive information
• Build a holistic and compliant compensation ,equity and benefits strategy across all current and future locations
• Oversee the creation of seamless and delightful processes for the reward lifecycle which are automated where possible and high impact when human led
• Keep up to date and actively research markets to ensure our reward practices are fair, competitive and up to date
• Be an extraordinary networker, connected industry and world-wide, always know what locations are hot for specific skills and what makes the talent pool tick in those markets
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to ensure consistency and alignment in reward practices across the entire company
• Ensure we’re set up for the upcoming Transparency Directive, highlighting Pleo’s stance externally on fair pay practices
• Review our current job architecture and levelling framework using best practice as well as a deep understanding of Pleo’s problem space
• Communicate changes to the reward space clearly to ensure Pleo’ers are aligned and informed

Preferred Qualifications

Have experience designing equity programmes - with knowledge of an IPO journey as a plus!

Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets 🍜
• Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• Access to MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far ❤️‍🩹
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶