Compensation & Benefits Specialist - EMEI (H/F)

Christian Louboutin LLC; Paris; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Christian Louboutin, Paris-based luxury brand, is seeking a Compensation & Benefits professional to define, implement, and optimize C&B policies across regions. You will support budgeting cycles, refine salary and bonus reviews, and enhance the benefits program to retain top talent.

The role requires strong numerical skills, fluency in English and French, and collaboration with global HR teams to drive pay transparency and angled HR initiatives.

Qualifications

• Fluent English and French working proficiency required; a third language is a plus.
• Master’s degree (BAC +4/5), business school or university, ideally with a specialization in HR.
• Minimum 2+ years’ experience in compensation & benefits.
• Strong numerical skills and proficiency in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to defining, improving, and deploying C&B policies and processes.
• Provide daily support to regions during budget review phases.
• Develop and enhance the group’s benefits offering to retain and engage employees.
• Support Global HR Projects and pay transparency / parental leave policies.

Skills

Fluent English/French

Strong numerical skills

Excellent written and verbal comms

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Pedagogical approach

Bilingual English/French

Education

Master’s degree in HR or related field

Tools

Excel

Job description

Within the Compensation & Benefits department, your role is to:

• Implement C&B policies and processes and contribute to improving existing models;
• Provide daily support to regions, particularly during budget review phases;
• Develop and enhance the group’s benefits offering to retain and engage employees.

Reporting to the Global C&B Senior Manager, you interact daily with the HR community, as well as management and external partners. You are proactive and comfortable with both operational tasks and project-based work.

Main Responsibilities

1. Contribute to defining, improving, and deploying C&B policies and processes

• Support the budgeting exercise, enhance budgeting tools and variance analysis, and monitor actuals;
• Prepare, deploy, and oversee the annual salary and bonus review process with local HR through to payroll implementation, ensuring budget compliance;
• Monitor the Retail reward systems, analyze their effectiveness, and propose improvements;
• Help ensure consistency and robustness of the Job Model and associated grading; keep it updated; contribute to defining related C&B rules.

2. Provide daily support to regions

• Guide local HR in consolidating payroll costs and forecasts to establish and monitor their budget while controlling evolution;
• Prepare packages and recommendations for hires and promotions;
• Assist with international mobility (package calculation, relocation support, visa supervision if needed).

3. Contribute to reward benchmarking to ensure competitive and fair positioning

• Participate in country salary and benefit surveys (Hay, Mercer, WTW…) with local HR support;
• Analyze results and identify priority actions to ensure optimal positioning.

4. Support Global HR Projects

• Setting global standards and policies for key subjects (pay transparency, parental leave etc);
• Various ad-hoc analyses in line with key business needs.

Profile

• Fluent English and French working proficiency required; a third language is a plus.
• Master’s degree (BAC +4/5), business school or university, ideally with a specialization in HR.
• Minimum 2+ years’ experience in compensation & benefits.
• Strong numerical skills and proficiency in Excel.
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to interact with stakeholders at all levels and from diverse cultures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with a pedagogical approach.
• Organizational skills and attention to detail.

Equal opportunity employer: priority is given to candidates who are beneficiaries of the employment obligation.

Our business and our Values:

Christian Louboutin opened his first boutique in Paris in 1992. An artist and craftsman with a true passion for shoes, his designs are unique and instantly recognizable, thanks in part to their signature and now trademarked red lacquered soles. The collections for both men and women combine wit, glamour, elegance and technical proficiency like no other. 2014 welcomed the launched of Christian Louboutin Beaute with its first nail colour, Rouge Louboutin. The collection has continued to diversify since then with the launch of lip in 2015, fragrance in 2016 and more recently a wonderful eye collection in 2017. With an extensive range of collections, Christian Louboutin now counts more than 130 boutiques globally.

Our people are at the heart of our brand.

We celebrate individualism and allow the freedom to have autonomy and creativity within your role. Our colleagues have in common passion and dedication to our Brand, and its continued success.

We live by our values: We are down to earth – we stand with authenticity, integrity and respect. We have passion – we drive the business with agility and care and we are committed to excellence. We have happiness in all that we do – As a team player, we collaborate with positivity, open-mindedness and fun. We work with inspiration – we envision the future with confidence, creativity and freedom.

If the shoe fits, walk with us

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The Maison Christian Louboutin is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to recruitment practices that do not discriminate against any job applicant because of their race, color, gender, age, nationality, culture(s), religion, sex, physical or mental disability, or age. We believe that a culture of diversity and individuality fosters our core values we listed above. So, if you also share this mindset and these values and you dream of coloring your soles red as part of the Louboutin adventure, please join us!

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