C&B Lead

Emerging Travel Group; Remote; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global travel company is seeking a Lead, Compensation & Benefits to strategically manage their Total Rewards function. This role involves enhancing compensation policies and automating key C&B processes for international teams. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of C&B experience in large organizations, strong leadership skills, and is proficient in Excel and BI tools. This position offers flexibility for remote work, a supportive team environment, and various professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible schedules and remote work

Internal training and development programs

Corporate English school access

Additional MyTime Day Off

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Total Rewards/Compensation & Benefits.
• Proven record of building C&B functions from scratch.
• Experience leading global compensation projects across multiple countries.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Compensation & Benefits function and develop policies.
• Manage workforce cost budgeting and conduct compensation analytics.
• Implement long-term incentive programs and automate C&B processes.

Skills

Leadership skills

Stakeholder management

Budgeting expertise

Automation of C&B processes

Fluent English

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

As Lead, Compensation & Benefits (C&B), you will take functional and strategic ownership of our Total Rewards function. You’ll design, enhance, and audit compensation, benefits, and rewards programs across our international organization, ensuring they drive engagement, performance, and growth. This is a remote position. We welcome candidates based in European time zones (GMT-3 to GMT+4).

Job responsibilities

• Provide functional and strategic leadership for our Compensation & Benefits function: develop, refine, and continuously improve compensation, bonus, and benefits policies for a fast-growing, multinational team.
• Build from scratch or re-engineer Total Rewards processes, ensuring compliance with local legal requirements, alignment with market standards, and reflection of our vibrant corporate culture.
• Manage workforce cost budgeting as a unified system: oversee planning and control, and regularly analyze risks and effectiveness.
• Conduct comprehensive compensation analytics and benchmarking; deliver strategic recommendations and expert support to top management.
• Lead the implementation of LTI (long-term incentive) programs and localize, adapt, and support a wide range of reward schemes, including recognition, wellbeing, and non-monetary incentives.
• Drive the automation of all key C&B processes, leveraging HRIS, integrations, and dashboards.
• Build, mentor, and lead a talented Compensation & Benefits team.
• Collaborate closely with HR Business Partners, HR Operations, and Finance to ensure consistency, efficiency, and alignment across the organization.

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible schedules and opportunity to work remotely.
• Ambitious and supportive team who love what they do, appreciate each other, and grow together.
• Internal programs for adaptation and training, development of soft skills, and leadership abilities.
• Partial compensation for participating in external training and conferences.
• Corporate English school: Group and individual lessons, speaking clubs with colleagues from all over the world.
• Corporate prices on hotels and travel services.
• MyTime Day Off - an extra non-working day without loss of compensation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Total Rewards/Compensation & Benefits, including building and scaling processes in large international organizations.
• Proven track record of building C&B functions from scratch: creating frameworks, rolling out, and standardizing processes.
• Experience leading global projects to implement compensation and reward systems, covering at least 5 countries (with experience across different jurisdictions preferred).
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing teams, including mentoring C&B professionals.
• Advanced expertise in budgeting, designing, and evaluating reward systems (including financial rewards, benefits, LTI, stock options, bonuses, and recognition).
• Skilled in automating C&B processes (HRIS, systems integration, dashboarding, IT solution design).
• Advanced proficiency with Excel and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau).
• Resilient and highly skilled in stakeholder management, able to communicate and defend proposals at the executive level.
• Fluent English for business communication, presentations, and negotiations (C1+).