Remuneration & Benefits Manager

Tandem Partners; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging benefits

Flexible hybrid working model

Job summary

Tandem Partners seeks a senior Reward, Remuneration or Compensation & Benefits professional to advise across a large, diverse workforce and drive remuneration strategy.

You will lead benchmarking, job evaluation and governance, partnering with senior leaders to balance strategic aims with operational delivery in a highly regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Experience within Remuneration, Reward or Compensation & Benefits.
• Strong remuneration benchmarking and job evaluation experience.
• Exposure to Mercer job evaluation methodologies.
• Experience supporting award and/or enterprise agreement environments.
• Strong analytical capability and confidence working with remuneration data.
• The ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders.
• Experience navigating large, complex and highly regulated organisations.
• A hands-on approach combined with strategic thinking.

Responsibilities

• Provide remuneration advice across a complex workforce environment.
• Lead role evaluation and job sizing activities using Mercer methodologies.
• Conduct market benchmarking and remuneration analysis.
• Support remuneration frameworks, salary structures and governance processes.
• Partner with stakeholders on pay positioning, internal equity and workforce planning.
• Provide insights across award, enterprise agreement and non-award remuneration matters.
• Support annual remuneration review activities and broader reward projects.
• Review and enhance employee benefits offerings and market competitiveness.
• Deliver workforce analytics and reporting through Dayforce and other systems.

Skills

Remuneration & benefits

Benchmarking

Job evaluation

Award/enterprise agreement experience

Data analysis

Influence senior stakeholders

Navigating complex organisations

Strategic and hands-on

Tools

Dayforce

Job description

Our client is a highly regarded organisation with a large and diverse workforce operating across multiple locations. With continued workforce growth and an increasing focus on reward and workforce strategy, this is an exciting opportunity to join a People & Culture team that is driving meaningful change.

About The Organisation

Our client is a highly regarded organisation with a large and diverse workforce operating across multiple locations. With continued workforce growth and an increasing focus on reward and workforce strategy, this is an exciting opportunity to join a People & Culture team that is driving meaningful change.

The Opportunity

Reporting to an experienced People & Culture leader, this role sits within a specialist advisory function. It offers a rare opportunity to combine remuneration, benefits, benchmarking, job evaluation and industrial remuneration support in a highly complex environment.

This is a standalone position responsible for providing expert advice across a large workforce spanning award, enterprise agreement and non-award populations. You'll partner closely with People & Culture, senior leaders and executives while balancing both strategic initiatives and operational delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing remuneration advice across a complex workforce environment
• Leading role evaluation and job sizing activities using Mercer methodologies
• Conducting market benchmarking and remuneration analysis
• Supporting remuneration frameworks, salary structures and governance processes
• Partnering with stakeholders on pay positioning, internal equity and workforce planning initiatives
• Providing insights across award, enterprise agreement and non-award remuneration matters
• Supporting annual remuneration review activities and broader reward projects
• Reviewing and enhancing employee benefits offerings and market competitiveness
• Delivering workforce analytics and reporting through Dayforce and other systems
• Contributing to ongoing transformation and process improvement initiatives

About You

You are an experienced Reward, Remuneration or Compensation & Benefits professional who enjoys partnering with senior stakeholders and providing expert advice across complex workforce and industrial environments.

You will ideally bring:

• Experience within Remuneration, Reward or Compensation & Benefits
• Strong remuneration benchmarking and job evaluation experience
• Exposure to Mercer job evaluation methodologies
• Experience supporting award and/or enterprise agreement environments
• Strong analytical capability and confidence working with remuneration data
• The ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders
• Experience navigating large, complex and highly regulated organisations
• A hands-on approach combined with strategic thinking

Experience within Healthcare, Community Services, NFP, Government or other complex workforce environments will be highly regarded.

What's on Offer?

• Rare opportunity to own and shape a specialised Reward portfolio
• Exposure to a highly complex workforce of 10,000+ employees
• Significant scope to influence remuneration strategy and frameworks
• Broad stakeholder exposure, including executive leadership
• Diverse mix of strategic projects and operational reward work
• Attractive salary packaging benefits
• Flexible hybrid working model (3 office days, 2 days from home)
• Purpose-driven culture with genuine career growth opportunities
• Stable permanent opportunity with strong long-term prospects

Tandem Partners is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.