Senior Manager Compensation & Benefits, Group (F/M) - Permanent contract

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) is seeking a Senior Manager Compensation & Benefits, Group, based in Paris. You will design, govern and execute the Group's compensation and benefits strategy across international sites, ensuring market-aligned rewards and governance across countries.

You will lead global salary and bonus review cycles, manage country budgets, and drive pay transparency compliance while partnering with HR leaders to deliver equitable reward practices across the Group.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Compensation & Benefits, Reward, or HR consulting.
• Strong expertise in compensation frameworks, salary benchmarking, and analytics.
• Fluent English required; French proficiency is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern the Group compensation framework across countries.
• Lead compensation governance and ensure consistent reward policy across regions.
• Drive global salary and bonus review cycles with budget guidelines.
• Oversee Workday compensation governance, testing, and data integrity.
• Coordinate with HRDs, HRBPs and external providers on compensation and mobility.

Skills

Compensation & Benefits

Reward programs

HR consulting

International experience

Stakeholder management

Analytical abilities

English fluency

Leadership

Tools

Workday

Beqom

Job description

About us - Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) is an owner, developer and operator of sustainable, high-quality real estate assets in the most dynamic cities in Europe and the United States. We operate 65 shopping centres in 11 countries, including 42 which carry the iconic Westfield brand. Our destinations attract over 900 million visits annually and provide a unique platform for retailers and brands to connect with consumers. Our portfolio also includes high-quality offices, convention, and exhibition venues in Paris, along with a €1.0 billion development pipeline focused mainly on mixed-use assets. We are driven by the positive environmental, social, and economic impact we can have on the cities and communities where we operate. At our places, we pioneer the highest sustainability standards, guided by our Better Places sustainability roadmap, which sets clear, science-based net-zero targets for Scopes 1 and 2 by 2030 and for our entire value chain by 2050.

How we make it count - At URW, we create more, achieve more and dare more.We play a vital role in the environmental transition of cities and the way we live in them: we are reinventing being together by creating and operating sustainable, vibrant, mixed-use places where people live, work, shop and share amazing experiences. Here, ambition meets expectation and excitement meets commitment. We invite enthusiastic, passionate and fresh-thinking people to join us and make urban regeneration and the transformation of retail happen. PACE, our shared values framework, defines how we work together and what we stand for: Passion, Act as One, Curiosity and Excellence with Impact. These values guide our actions, inspire our behaviours, and help us build a culture where people and teams can thrive and drive positive impact.

We are currently looking for our Senior Manager Compensation & Benefits, Group

Reporting to the Group Director of Total Rewards & Talent Development, this role is responsible for designing, governing, and executing the Group's compensation and benefits strategy.

This role leads global compensation processes, ensures compliance with pay transparency requirements, manages compensation governance and analytics, and partners with HR and business leaders to deliver equitable, market-aligned reward practices across the Group.

What will your daily life be like?

Compensation Strategy & Governance

• Design and maintain the Group compensation framework, including job architecture, salary structures, incentive plans, and benefits.

• Lead compensation governance and ensure consistent application of reward policies across countries.

• Drive major reward transformation projects, including bonus framework redesign.

Annual Compensation Review

• Lead global salary and bonus review cycles.

• Define country-level budgets and guidelines based on market benchmarking.

• Oversee Workday system configuration, testing, communications, and execution.

• Support HRDs and HR Business Partners in reward decision-making.

Pay Transparency & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with pay transparency regulations.

• Produce mandatory reporting and analytics using Beqom.

• Maintain compensation data quality and governance.

Compensation Analytics & Benchmarking

• Conduct market benchmarking and compensation analyses.

• Coordinate participation in external compensation surveys.

Incentive Plan Design

• Design and manage incentive plans tailored to business needs.

Employee Shareholding & Savings Plan

• Manage employee shareholding and profit-sharing program in France.

International Mobility

• Define and apply the Group international mobility policy (assignments, relocations), ensuring consistency, equity and compliance across countries.

• Monitor mobility budgets, trends and reporting, and steer the international mobility consultant in day-to-day case management.

• Coordinate with HRDs, HR Business Partners, and external providers on compensation, tax, social security and immigration aspects.

Workday Compensation Governance

• Oversee compensation-related data governance and approval processes.

• Conduct annual audits and monitor data quality.

Stakeholder Management

• Partner with HRDs, International Mobility, LTI, and HR Controlling teams.

• Direct management of a Compensation & Benefits Partner in France and an international mobility consultant.

• Functional management of a Compensation & Benefits Partner in the US.

• Close coordination with the Compensation & Benefits in the other Regions where the Group operates.

You are the right person for this position if :

• 10+ years of experience in Compensation & Benefits, Reward, or HR Consulting, ideally within an international environment.

• Strong expertise in compensation frameworks, salary benchmarking, job architecture, incentive plans, pay transparency, and compensation analytics.

• Experience with HR and compensation systems, including Workday and compensation management tools (e.g., Beqom).

• Proven ability to lead compensation programs across multiple countries, with a good understanding of international compensation practices, in particular the US and UK markets.

• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to balance business needs, market competitiveness, and governance requirements.

• Fluent English required. French proficiency is a plus.

What matters for us

What matters to us is welcoming committed and passionate individuals who are capable of inspiring positive energy around them and are ready to grow within a large international group. We offer our employees a collaborative, innovative, success-oriented culture that creates unique opportunities for advancement. We strive for excellence and our culture encourages autonomy, innovation and collective intelligence among our employees.

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield promotes equal opportunities and diversity in terms of profiles, experiences and skills. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our company and we are committed to creating an environment that respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of individual differences. As a signatory to the Diversity Charter, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield is committed to evaluating each new application without discrimination based on disability, age, gender, origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.