Senior Compensation Manager – Europe Developed Markets

The Kraft Heinz Company; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

The Kraft Heinz Company is seeking an experienced Compensation Manager to lead Europe Developed Markets programs within the EPDM region. You’ll partner with HR and business stakeholders to deliver pay strategies, merit cycles, and salary benchmarking that attract and retain talent.

You’ll manage job evaluations using Korn Ferry Hays methodology, drive regional compensation initiatives, and continuously improve tools, governance and documentation. This is an individual contributor role.

Qualifications

• EU work permit required to proceed for this position.
• 4–5+ years of compensation experience.
• Experience in salary benchmarking and compensation analyses.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret compensation data and provide actionable recommendations.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate with HR and business stakeholders.
• FMCG experience is preferred but not required.
• English language required.
• Strong Excel skills required.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual merit cycle across HR teams supported.
• Manage annual salary range review process for EPDM countries.
• Conduct job evaluations using Korn Ferry Hays methodology.
• Translate global compensation strategy for the EPDM region.
• Perform pay equity, benchmarking analyses to support stakeholders.
• Provide compensation analyses and recommendations to HR stakeholders.
• Partner with HR on compensation, promotions, benchmarking, and pay decisions.
• Manage compensation projects to improve tools and region frameworks.
• Develop and maintain EPDM compensation documentation and manager materials.
• Role is an individual contributor.

Skills

Compensation & Total Rewards

Analytical skills

Stakeholder collaboration

Influence & push back

English language

Tools

Excel

Korn Ferry Hays

Job description

About the position:

We have an excellent opportunity available for an experienced Compensation Manager to make a difference at Kraft Heinz. The Compensation Manager – Europe Developed Markets is part of the EPDM Region. You’ll be working in a high performing team and alongside HR and business stakeholders to deliver compensation programs that support our reward philosophy, attract and retain talent, and ensure market competitiveness across the region.You will play a key role in delivering annual compensation processes, providing expert advice on pay decisions, and leading regional compensation initiatives that enhance our frameworks, tools, and governance.

In brief, you are responsible for:

• Managing the annual merit cycle across a set of HR teams that you will support.
• Managing the annual salary range review process for a group of countries within the EPDM region.
• Responsible for job evaluations, using Korn Ferry Hays methodology, to assess bands for your target population.
• Translating the global compensation strategy and embedding it in the EPDM region.
• Conducting pay equity, market competitiveness and salary benchmarking analyses to support your group of HR stakeholders.
• Providing compensation analyses and recommendations to HR stakeholders to ensure compensation aligns to our compensation strategy.
• Partnering with HR stakeholders to advise on compensation, promotions, benchmarking, and pay decisions.
• Managing compensation projects to continuously improve our tools and region frameworks.
• Developing and maintaining EPDM region compensation documentation, toolkits and manager material.
• This role is an individual contributor role.

Qualifications:

Please kindly note that you need to have an EU work permit (Orientation Year Visa holders are not eligible) in order to proceed for this position.

• Strong experience in compensation and/or total rewards.
• Experience using Korn Ferry Hays job evaluation methodology (or similar job architecture framework).
• Experience in salary benchmarking and compensation analyses.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret compensation data and provide actionable recommendations.
• 4 to 5+ years of prior compensation experience.
• FMCG experience preferred but not required.
• English language required.
• Strong Excel skills required.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate with HR and business stakeholders.

Professional Attributes:

• Communication Skills - It is important to have excellent interpersonal skills, to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Confident / Ability to give pushback - We like people who are go-getters and are not easily thrown off their game, not even when facing resistance.
• Ability to Simplify - We like to keep it simple. And to implement fast. Your simplification skills will be highly appreciated, when providing simple solutions dealing with sophisticated challenges.
• Analytical - We’re a very data driven company, making it crucial to be able to translate complex data into a simple solution with an analytical approach.
• Project management skills - Time management has no secrets for you. You’re organized, structured and always have an overview of all the deliverables. You know how to bring multiple projects to a successful completion within the given timeframe.

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.