Senior Reward Manager

WSA – Wonderful Sound for All; Poznań; On-site; PLN 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

WS Audiology is seeking a Senior Reward Manager to own global Reward processes and partner with the EMEA region. You will report to the Global Head of Reward and join a specialist team spanning Reward, Mobility, and Analytics.

The role focuses on advising HR and leadership on Reward topics, implementing pay transparency readiness, and driving end-to-end rewards design and governance across markets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in compensation and total rewards within a large international organization.
• Experience running Reward cycles end to end (merit, STI, LTI).
• Strong analytical skills with base pay structures, governance and reporting.
• Mercer IPE knowledge is an advantage; Workday experience is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Advise HR colleagues and business leaders on Reward topics across global markets.
• Contribute to market insights for offers, promotions, and annual cycles.
• Drive readiness for EU Pay Transparency Directive and implement practical processes.
• Design, manage, and optimize global Rewards (STI, LTI) programs.
• Govern Reward processes and governance within the Workday rollout.
• Shape the Reward Centre of Excellence and support continuous improvement.

Skills

Reward governance

Data analysis

Workday

Mercer IPE

EMEA experience

Job architecture

Education

Bachelor’s in HR/Business

Master’s preferred

Tools

Workday

Mercer IPE

Job description

Driven by a passion for improving people’s quality of life, WS Audiology continues to strengthen its position as a market leader in the hearing aid industry. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of Reward at WSA as we build a more consistent, transparent, and well-governed global approach.

What you will do

As Senior Reward Manager, you will take end-to-end ownership of selected global Reward processes and serve as a trusted Reward partner for the EMEA region. Reporting to the Global Head of Reward, you will join a specialist team spanning Reward, Mobility, and Analytics.

Reward Partnering for EMEA

• Advise HR colleagues and business leaders across the full spectrum of Reward topics.
• Bring market insight and data to offers, promotions and the annual cycles.

EU Pay Transparency Directive

• Drive our readiness and turn the requirements into practical ways of working.
• Build the pay structures, reporting and documentation behind explainable pay.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance and HR colleagues across our markets.

Global Rewards Process

• Design, manage, and optimize competitive ST and LTI to attract, retain, and motivate top talent
• Conduct job evaluations using the Mercer IPE methodology.
• Work with HR colleagues globally to keep levelling and pay structures aligned.

Reward Governance in Workday

• Design and implement Reward processes and governance in our global Workday roll-out.
• Turn how we want to work into system logic, guidelines and controls.
• Support HR colleagues and line managers in making new ways of working stick.

Building the Reward Centre of Excellence

• Shape how the Reward CoE works, from process ownership to business partnering.
• Contribute to deliveries that meet the expectations of a publicly listed company.

Continuous Improvement

• Stay informed of industry best practices and market trends.
• Implement innovative reward strategies to attract, retain, and motivate talent.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• Solid experience (5+ years) within compensation and total rewards from a larger international
• organization, with a focus on EMEA markets.
• Hands‑on experience running Reward cycles end to end, such as merit, STI or LTI.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience of base pay structures, pay governance and reporting.
• Experience with job architecture and job evaluation; Mercer IPE is an advantage.
• Familiarity with pay transparency in an international setting; Workday experience an advantage.

Personal competencies

• Highly strategic, forward-thinking and collaborative, while having strong execution focus.
• Comfortable building processes from scratch as well as improving what already exists.
• Able to translate regulation and policy into ways of working that people can follow.
• Strong stakeholder management, including with senior leaders across markets and cultures.
• Structured and pragmatic, with the ability to prioritise in a changing environment.
• Curious and proactive, with the confidence to bring ideas and challenge existing thinking.

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.