Total Rewards Lead

CITADEL PACIFIC, LTD. - ROHQ; Taguig; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

CITADEL Pacific Ltd. is seeking a Senior Total Rewards professional to lead compensation design and administration across our Philippine operations.

You will shape salary structures, merit ladders, promotions, incentives, and market pricing, ensuring competitive and equitable rewards. You will analyze benefits strategy, vendor governance, and cost utilization, perform job evaluation and pricing, and leverage tools like Mercer, WTW, Aon and Hay.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferably in Human Resources, Psychology, Business Management or related field.
• At least seven (7) years of experience in Total Rewards with hands-on exposure to compensation and benefits.
• TR Specialist/Professional certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and administer compensation programs including salary structures, merit, promotions, incentives, and market pricing.
• Oversee benefits strategy, plan governance, vendor management, renewal processes and cost/utilization analysis.
• Analyze data; build models, simulations, costing, dashboards; provide management-ready recommendations; HRIS analytics a plus.
• Lead multiple annual reward cycles and cross-functional projects with strong execution discipline.
• Manage stakeholders, explain complex rewards concepts, influence decisions at all levels, coach junior staff.

Skills

Compensation design

Salary structures

Merit & promotions

Incentives

Market pricing

Stakeholder management

Advanced Excel

HRIS analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business/related field

Tools

Mercer

WTW

Aon

Hay benchmarking

Job description

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Strong technical grounding in compensation design and
  administration, including salary structures, merit, promotions,
  incentives, variable pay and market pricing.

• Working knowledge of benefits strategy, plan governance, vendor
  management, renewal processes and cost/utilization analysis.
  Demonstrated experience in job evaluation, job architecture, job
  leveling, career frameworks and job pricing, and compensation
  benchmarking methodologies and tools such as Mercer, WTW, Aon
  and/or Hay; ability to interpret market data rather than rely on
  survey outputs at face value.

• Advanced Excel and analytical capability; able to build models,
  simulations, costing, dashboards and management-ready
  recommendations. Experience with HRIS, compensation planning or
  analytics tools is an advantage.

• Strong project management and execution discipline, with the ability
  to manage multiple annual cycles and cross-functional projects to
  agreed timelines and quality standards.

• Strong stakeholder management and consulting skills; able to
  challenge constructively, explain complex rewards concepts clearly
  and influence decisions across different levels of the organization.

• High attention to detail, sound judgment, confidentiality and strong
  control orientation, particularly for employee, executive and
  compensation data.

• Demonstrated ability to coach team members, set clear
  expectations, follow through on commitments and raise the
  capability and independence of junior staff.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferably in Human Resources, Psychology, Business
  Management or other related field

• At least seven (7) years of experience in Total Rewards, with strong
  hands-on exposure to compensation and benefits

• Preferably with TR Specialist/Professional certification

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About CITADEL Pacific

CITADEL Pacific Ltd. (CPL) is a diversified private holding company with operations in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Macau, the Republic of Palau, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Territory of Guam.

Our holdings range from controlling stakes in companies engaged in telecommunications, retail, petroleum and gas distribution, commercial, and industrial property, in-flight catering, and manpower services. Recent acquisitions entering Solar and Data Center businesses position CITADEL to future facing and fast-growing industries in renewables energy and digital infrastructure. Our recent acquisitions of Solar and Data Center businesses position CITADEL in future-facing, fast-growing industries within the renewable energy and digital infrastructure sectors.

We offer a competitive total rewards package which includes a base salary determined by factors such as role, experience, skill set, and location. Additionally, eligible employees may receive discretionary bonuses based on both company performance and individual achievements. Our benefits and programs are designed to meet the needs of our employees and are benchmarked to the market. Detailed information regarding compensation and benefits will be shared during the hiring process.