Regional C&B Total Rewards, Assistant Manager $45k

Michael Page International (Hong Kong) Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Page International (Hong Kong) Limited is seeking a senior Total Rewards professional to lead regional compensation and benefits initiatives across APAC. The role focuses on designing and administering salary reviews, incentive schemes, and benchmarking to align with market competitiveness.

The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical capability, advanced Excel skills, and extensive experience in HR analytics, budgeting, and HRIS reporting within complex multinational settings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, business administration, finance, accounting or statistics.
• 5-8 years of compensation & benefits or HR analytics experience.
• Experience managing regional compensation programs across multiple countries and entities.
• Strong expertise in bonus schemes, incentive plans, commission structures, salary review processes, and benchmarking.
• Experience preparing people budgets, workforce planning models, headcount reports, and compensation analytics.
• Solid understanding of job evaluation, job mapping, salary structures, and market surveys.

Responsibilities

• Partner with HR teams and business leaders across the region to develop, implement and enhance compensation and benefits programmes.
• Lead the design and administration of annual salary reviews, incentive plans, bonus frameworks, and sales commission schemes across multiple countries.
• Analyse regional compensation data, provide insights, benchmarking and budget planning to support decisions.
• Manage employee benefits programmes across markets, ensuring competitiveness, compliance and cost-effectiveness.
• Drive budgeting and forecasting for people costs, monitor variances, and report to stakeholders.
• Oversee job evaluation, mapping, organisation structure reviews and grading to ensure consistency regionally.

Skills

Advanced Excel

HRIS reporting

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Budgeting & forecasting

Compensation benchmarking

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business/Finance

Tools

HRIS systems

Job description

• A well-established international organisation with a strong presence across APAC
• Innovative, focus on operational excellence, and people-centric culture

About Our Client

Our client is a well-established international organisation with a significant presence across Asia Pacific and a diverse portfolio of businesses operating in multiple markets. The organisation places strong emphasis on building competitive and sustainable reward programmes that support both employee engagement and business performance.

Job Description

• Partner with HR teams and business leaders across the region to support the development, implementation, and continuous enhancement of compensation and benefits programmes, ensuring alignment with both organisational objectives and market competitiveness.
• Contribute to the design and administration of annual salary review processes, incentive plans, bonus frameworks, sales commission schemes, and recognition programmes across multiple countries and business units.
• Lead the preparation, consolidation, and analysis of regional compensation data, providing meaningful insights and recommendations to support business decision‑making. This includes compensation benchmarking, salary structure reviews, pay equity analysis, workforce cost modelling, budget planning, and headcount tracking.
• Support the management and governance of employee benefits programmes across various markets, working closely with local HR teams and external providers to ensure programmes remain competitive, compliant, and cost-effective while delivering a positive employee experience.
• Drive annual budgeting and forecasting activities related to people costs, including salary increments, variable pay, benefits expenditure, and workforce planning. Monitor actual performance against budgets and provide regular reporting and analysis to key stakeholders.
• Manage job evaluation, job mapping, organisation structure reviews, and grading exercises to support workforce effectiveness and ensure consistency across the region. Participate in compensation surveys and leverage market intelligence to inform reward strategies and talent decisions.
• Prepare regional Total Rewards dashboards, reports, and presentations for senior leadership, delivering accurate and timely analysis on compensation trends, headcount movements, workforce costs, and other key metrics.
• Collaborate with broader HR teams on strategic projects including reward harmonisation, policy development, HR transformation initiatives, and continuous improvement programmes aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and employee value proposition.

The Successful Applicant

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or a related discipline.
• Approximately 5-8 years of Compensation & Benefits, Total Rewards, or HR analytics experience.
• Proven experience managing regional compensation and benefits programmes across multiple countries and business entities.
• Strong expertise in bonus scheme design, incentive plans, commission structures, salary review processes, and compensation benchmarking.
• Experience preparing people budgets, workforce planning models, headcount reports, and compensation analytics.
• Solid understanding of job evaluation, job mapping, salary structures, grading methodologies, and market survey participation.
• Strong regional exposure across Asia Pacific; experience supporting multiple locations and diverse workforce populations is highly preferred.
• Prior experience within manufacturing, retail, consumer products, sourcing, supply chain, industrial, or other complex multinational business environments would be advantageous.
• Highly analytical, numerically strong, and comfortable working with large volumes of workforce and compensation data.
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy, with a structured and methodical approach to work.
• Commercially astute with the ability to balance employee needs, market competitiveness, and business cost considerations.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong proficiency in HRIS and reporting tools.
• Confident communicator with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders across different levels and geographies.
• Self‑motivated, proactive, and capable of thriving in a fast‑paced regional environment.

What's on Offer

• Great team culture and collaborative working culture
• Opportunities to work on global compensation and benefits strategies.