Total Rewards Partner (m/f/d)

PSI Software - Scandinavia; Bayern; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Corporate Benefits

Development & Training

Mobile working

Flexible Working Time

fruits & drinks

Team Events

Job summary

PSI Software SE Central Functions in Germany is seeking a seasoned Total Rewards Partner to shape one global job architecture and fair pay across the group. You will lead equal-pay analyses, gender pay gap reporting, and EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance, while aligning salary bands and benefits across countries.

Based in Germany with EU work rights, you will own compensation workflows, design base salary structures, renew vendor contracts, and partner with Works Council to ensure

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience designing and managing compensation and benefits frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of EU Pay Transparency Directive and equal-value evaluation criteria.
• Advanced spreadsheet and multi-currency financial data modelling across multiple entities.
• Fluency in German and English (written and spoken).
• Based in Germany with the right to work in the EU.

Responsibilities

• Design and roll out a consistent global job architecture and levelling framework across all countries.
• Align compensation and benefits practices into a transparent, company-wide standard.
• Lead equal-pay analyses and EU pay transparency workflows ahead of deadlines.
• Design and guide the annual salary review and bonus cycles on the new architecture.
• Own base salary structures, local salary bands, and variable pay frameworks.
• Oversee pension and benefit design, vendor renewals and cost governance.
• Prepare data for works council co-determination and ensure compliant reward policies.

Skills

Compensation design

Job evaluation

Job architecture

Salary banding

Pay transparency

Works Council

Multicurrency modelling

German & English

EU work eligibility

Advanced spreadsheets

Tools

Excel

Job description

• PSI Software SE Central Functions
• Permanent
• Human Resources
• Full-time

• Aschaffenburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Homeoffice optional
• PSI Software SE Central Functions
• Permanent
• Human Resources
• Full-time

The PSI Group develops software products for optimizing the flow of energy and materials for utilities and industry. As an independent software producer with more than 2,300 employees, PSI has been a technology leader since 1969 for process control systems that ensure sustainable energy supply, production and logistics by combining AI methods with industrially proven optimization methods. The innovative industry products can be operated on-premises or in the cloud.

Our People & Organization (P&O) function is building a unified, transparent global people framework across all business units and operating countries. As Total Rewards Partner reporting to the Head of People Operations, you will shape how roles are structured, evaluated and rewarded across the company. Your work matters now because you will establish one common job architecture, compensation standards, and prepare our organization for the EU Pay Transparency Directive. In this individual contributor role, you will have full ownership of Total Rewards across the entire group.

Tasks inspiring you

• Build on initial role-clustering work and existing local grading practices to design and roll out one consistent, gender-neutral global job architecture and levelling framework across all countries.
• Bring together compensation and benefit practices into one transparent company-wide standard and align local salary bands.
• Establish our baseline equal-pay analysis, gender pay gap reporting and pay transparency workflows ahead of EU Pay Transparency Directive deadlines.
• Design and guide the first company-wide annual salary review and variable pay cycle on the new architecture.
• Own the global job architecture, gender-neutral evaluation methodology and job description standard, keeping levels and pay bands consistent with German agreements on compensation.
• Design and maintain base salary structures, local salary bands and variable pay frameworks using market benchmarks, and lead the annual salary review and bonus cycles.
• Own company pension and benefit design, vendor renewals and cost governance, while HR Operations handles day-to-day administration.
• Lead equal-pay analyses, statutory pay gap reporting and EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance, and prepare technical reward data and levelling criteria for works council co-determination with the Employee and Labor Relations Manager.

Qualifications That Inspire Us

Must-haves

• Proven hands-on experience designing and managing compensation and benefits frameworks, including analytical job evaluation, job architecture design, international salary banding and annual pay cycles.
• Strong working knowledge of the EU Pay Transparency Directive, equal-value evaluation criteria, statutory pay gap reporting and preparing reward frameworks for the Works Council co-determination.
• Advanced spreadsheet and multi-currency financial data modelling skills across multiple legal entities.
• Fluency in both German and English (written and spoken, required to draft German reward policies and works agreement schedules and to lead global compensation cycles in English).
• Based in Germany with the right to work and live in EU

Nice-to-haves

• Experience bringing together multi-country job levelling and benefit structures across multiple business units or international subsidiaries.
• Experience in Software Development / Tech companies.
• Working proficiency in another language of our operating countries

Hybrid model 40% onsite.

We Offer

• Corporate Benefits
• Development & Training
• Mobile working
• Flexible Working Time
• fruits & drinks
• Team Events

Pioneering a smarter world. Are you on board?

Equal opportunities: We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Selection decisions are based solely on job-related qualifications, and in line with the EU Pay Transparency Directive we do not ask for current or past salary.

Dominik Wagner

Business Partner