Compensation & Benefits Manager

Argyll Scott is hiring a Group Compensation & Benefits Manager into our consulting team. Your first mission is with an international professional services group growing fast across Asia Pacific, organically and through acquisition. Six month contract, extendable, fully remote from Malaysia.

The priority is job architecture. The group has grown through acquisition and needs one levelling and titling framework that every market maps into. You will design it, map the roles and set the governance that keeps it consistent, working with local People & Culture teams and reporting to the Group Head of People & Culture. Hands on, highly independent, no team.

What you will do
• Design a Group wide job levelling and titling framework, with clear principles for levels, role differentiation and naming.
• Map roles across markets to the Group levels with local People & Culture teams, and rationalise titles, including in newly acquired businesses.
• Build salary range structures on top of the levels, using market benchmarking and survey data.
• Advise on pay positioning, offers and incentive design as the framework goes live.
• Build the people cost analytics that support workforce planning and salary review cycles.

What we are looking for
• 7 years or more in compensation and benefits, in a regional or Group role covering several markets.
• Hands on delivery of a job levelling or job architecture project, ideally a harmonisation across entities or after an acquisition.
• Experience with a recognised job evaluation methodology, such as Mercer IPE, Korn Ferry or WTW, is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills and advanced Excel.
• A clear, pragmatic communicator who is comfortable in ambiguity and can build from a blank page.
• Malaysian, or already eligible to work in Malaysia. We are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

What is on offer
• MYR 8,000 to 10,000 per month.
• Six month contract, extendable, fully remote from Malaysia.
• Group scope across Asia Pacific and direct access to the Group Head of People & Culture.

Apply through this advert with an updated CV.

Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.