Reward Partner APAC

Dyson Institute; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson Institute in Singapore seeks a Reward Partner for APAC to translate global reward strategy into locally relevant programmes. You will advise on compensation, benefits, and governance, partnering with People leaders and HR Business Partners across the region.

Data and market insight will support sound decisions while ensuring regional consistency with local requirements. You will lead reward cycles, benchmark roles, and provide expert guidance on pay actions, ensuring compliance and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in compensation, benefits, total rewards or a related HR discipline.
• Experience supporting reward programmes across multiple APAC markets.
• Experience working with enterprise HR systems and reward or workforce data.

Responsibilities

• Partner with regional and country People teams to provide practical reward advice across APAC.
• Implement global reward strategy across APAC, adapting to local legislation and market practice.
• Lead annual reward cycles including salary review, incentive processes and budgeting.
• Provide guidance on salary positioning, offers, promotions and other pay decisions with HRBP & TA.
• Conduct market benchmarking and analyze reward data to assess competitiveness and equity.

Skills

Compensation

Benefits

Total rewards

HR analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree in HR

Tools

Workday

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Role Summary

In your role as Reward Partner, APAC, you will partner with People leaders, HR Business Partners and business stakeholders to deliver effective, competitive and compliant reward solutions across the region. You will translate global reward strategy into locally relevant programmes, provide expert advice on compensation and benefits matters, and use data and market insight to support sound people and business decisions. The role will balance regional consistency with local market requirements while strengthening reward governance, operational discipline and employee experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with regional and country People teams, HR Business Partners and business leaders to understand priorities and provide practical, commercially grounded reward advice across APAC.
• Implement global reward strategy, principles and programmes across APAC, adapting delivery to local legislation, market practice and business context while maintaining regional consistency.
• Lead and coordinate annual reward cycles, including salary review, incentive processes, pay planning, budgeting, communications and governance.
• Provide expert guidance on salary positioning, job offers, promotions, retention actions and other pay decisions, partnering with Talent Acquisition and HR Business Partners on complex or out-of-policy cases.
• Conduct market benchmarking and analyze reward and workforce data to assess competitiveness, identify pay equity risks and anomalies, and recommend updates to salary ranges, allowances and reward practices.
• Support the review, design and implementation of regional compensation, benefits, sales incentive and commission programmes, ensuring affordability, effectiveness, fairness and alignment with global standards and local market needs.
• Maintain strong reward governance and compliant programme delivery by partnering with Payroll, Finance, HR Operations, HR Technology, Legal, Tax and external advisers, ensuring decisions are documented, auditable and consistently applied.
• Support organizational change, workforce planning and restructuring through reward modelling and cost analysis, while simplifying, standardizing and automating regional reward processes, reporting, controls and capability-building materials.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in compensation, benefits, total rewards or a related HR discipline.
• Experience supporting reward programmes across multiple APAC markets.
• Experience working with enterprise HR systems and reward or workforce data.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, Economics, Analytics or a related discipline.
• Broad knowledge of compensation principles, market benchmarking, salary structures, annual reward cycles and incentive programmes.
• Experience interpreting market survey data and translating analysis into practical recommendations for leaders and HR stakeholders.
• Understanding of APAC employment, pay, tax and benefits considerations, with the judgement to engage specialist advisers where required.
• Experience in a global, matrixed organization and in balancing global standards with local market requirements.
• Advanced Excel capability and experience with Workday, Power BI or comparable HR technology and analytics tools.
• Strong numerical, analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with high attention to detail and data integrity.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to assess the employee, financial, regulatory and operational implications of reward decisions.
• Ability to explain complex reward concepts clearly to non-specialist and senior audiences.
• Strong consulting, stakeholder management, written communication and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated discretion when handling confidential employee and compensation information.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don't think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.

At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn't just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas.