VP Group Rewards & Global Mobility

EMEA Recruitment is partnering with a leading global organization to appoint a Global Head of Rewards to join its international HR Leadership team.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the organization's global compensation and benefits strategy, ensuring reward programs remain competitive, equitable, and aligned with business objectives.

Partnering closely with senior leadership, the Chief People Officer, and Board-level stakeholders, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of total rewards across a complex international business.

This is a highly visible leadership role, combining strategic direction with hands-on delivery across compensation, executive reward, benefits, payroll governance, job architecture, and global reward transformation.

Key responsibilities of the Global Head of Rewards:

• Develop and deliver the global compensation and benefits strategy, ensuring competitive, equitable, and compliant reward programs across the organization

• Lead executive compensation, incentive schemes, and annual reward cycles while partnering with senior leadership and Board-level stakeholders on strategic reward decisions

• Drive global reward initiatives including job architecture, salary benchmarking, global benefits, payroll governance, and reward transformation projects

• Leverage market intelligence, analytics, and benchmarking to continuously enhance reward programs and support business decision-making

• Lead and develop the Global Rewards team while collaborating closely with HR, Finance, Legal, and regional stakeholders to deliver global best practice

The ideal candidate profile:

• Extensive Compensation & Benefits leadership experience within a large, international or matrixed organization

• Strong expertise in global reward strategy, executive compensation, incentives, and governance

• Proven experience using data, market benchmarking, and analytics to shape commercial reward decisions

• Confident influencing Executive Leadership and Board-level stakeholders while building strong relationships across a global business

• Strategic yet hands-on leader with excellent commercial acumen, analytical capability, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

• University degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, or a related discipline

EMEA Recruitment is committed to promoting Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace. We act as a neutral third party in the recruitment process, basing our candidate searches on skills and experience. We welcome all applications regardless of age, gender, sex, relationship status, disability, race, religion/beliefs, or sexual orientation.