EMEA Total Rewards Leader | Strategic Pay & Benefits

Medline Industries; Utrecht; Híbrido; EUR 110.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Medline Industries in Utrecht, Netherlands, seeks a Senior Rewards Manager EMEA to lead the Total Rewards strategy across compensation, benefits, incentives, recognition, and performance management. You will partner with HR, Finance, and Global Rewards to ensure competitive, equitable, scalable programs for multiple countries and functions.

The role requires 8–12+ years in Total Rewards, expertise in job architecture and pay equity, and experience with Workday or similar HRIS.

Formación

• 8-12+ years of Compensation & Benefits or Total Rewards experience within an international environment.
• Strong expertise in compensation strategy, benefits, incentives, job architecture, and pay equity.
• Experience leading multi-country EMEA reward programs.
• Proven ability to develop strategy and translate it into practical, scalable solutions.
• Strong analytical skills and experience using reward data to drive decision-making.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including exposure to executive-level audiences.
• Experience working within a complex, matrixed, and fast-growing organization.
• Strong change management and transformation experience.
• Knowledge of Workday or similar HRIS platforms.
• Experience collaborating with employee representative bodies or works councils.
• A continuous improvement mindset with a passion for simplification, standardization, and operational excellence.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the EMEA Total Rewards agenda by combining strategic thinking, governance, data-driven insights, and operational excellence.
• Develop and execute the EMEA Total Rewards strategy, aligned with global principles and regional business priorities.
• Lead compensation programs across job architecture, evaluation, salary structures, market benchmarking, pay progression, and pay equity.
• Drive EMEA job architecture implementation and ensure consistent application of job levels, titles, and career frameworks.
• Design and govern incentive programs, including annual bonuses, sales incentives, management incentives, and long-term incentive programs.
• Partner with business and Finance leaders on incentive design, performance outcomes, and reward decisions.
• Develop and optimize the EMEA benefits strategy, ensuring programs remain competitive, sustainable, and compliant.
• Lead annual reward cycles, including merit reviews, bonus processes, salary benchmarking, pay equity reviews, and benefits renewals.
• Drive continuous improvement, simplification, standardization, automation, and governance across reward processes.
• Build reward analytics and dashboards that provide actionable insights for senior leadership.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Rewards team while contributing to major regional and global transformation initiatives.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executive and senior leadership teams on reward strategy, organizational design, and workforce decisions.

Conocimientos

Total Rewards

Compensation & Benefits

Benefits

Incentives

Job architecture

Pay equity

Stakeholder management

Change management

Analytical skills

Strategic thinking

Herramientas

Workday

Descripción del empleo

Medline Industries in Utrecht, Netherlands, seeks a Senior Rewards Manager EMEA to lead the Total Rewards strategy across compensation, benefits, incentives, recognition, and performance management. You will partner with HR, Finance, and Global Rewards to ensure competitive, equitable, scalable programs for multiple countries and functions.

The role requires 8–12+ years in Total Rewards, expertise in job architecture and pay equity, and experience with Workday or similar HRIS.