Total Rewards Leader — Compensation & Benefits

NRI Australia & New Zealand; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NRI Australia & New Zealand is seeking a Compensation & Benefits Partner to lead remuneration strategy and total rewards initiatives. You will partner with senior leaders, Finance and the People & Culture team to deliver market-competitive programs, governance and insights that align with business goals.

You’ll design incentive plans, job architecture and career frameworks, while driving equity, governance and transparency across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in remuneration and benefits within professional services, consulting, technology, or corporate environments.
• Experience designing and implementing remuneration and reward strategies.
• Strong understanding of base pay frameworks, variable pay, incentive design and total rewards principles.
• Experience designing and administering commission-based sales incentive plans and annual bonus schemes.

Responsibilities

• Design, govern and administer the annual STI framework, including KPI development, bonus processes, effectiveness monitoring and reporting.
• Partner with leaders to design and maintain sales commission plans that drive profitable growth; support governance, calculations and annual reviews.
• Develop and maintain the Job Architecture Framework, ensuring consistent job families, levels and grading; support role evaluation and alignment with career pathways and remuneration.
• Manage benefits, recognition and reward programs; enhance the Employee Value Proposition to support attraction, retention, engagement and wellbeing.
• Partner with L&D to link capability growth, certifications and leadership development to reward outcomes.
• Own remuneration governance, policies, compliance, equity reviews and Board/executive reporting.
• Lead market benchmarking and deliver insights, dashboards and analytics to support remuneration and workforce decisions.

Skills

Remuneration strategy

Total rewards

Pay governance

Advanced Excel

Stakeholder management

Salary benchmarking

Gender pay gap analysis

Remuneration modelling

HR analytics

Market benchmarking tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR or Business

Tools

Oracle Fusion

HRIS reporting

Aon Radford

Job description

NRI Australia & New Zealand is seeking a Compensation & Benefits Partner to lead remuneration strategy and total rewards initiatives. You will partner with senior leaders, Finance and the People & Culture team to deliver market-competitive programs, governance and insights that align with business goals.

You’ll design incentive plans, job architecture and career frameworks, while driving equity, governance and transparency across the organisation.