Corporate Compensation & Benefits Manager

Would you like to be part of an HR team that focuses on modernizing and professionalizing HR on topics such as talent development, employee well-being, and recruitment? And will you play an important role as our Corporate Compensation & Benefits Manager? Then we might have your next job available.

About Royal Van Leeuwen

Royal Van Leeuwen is an international distribution company specializing in steel pipes, and pipe and tube applications. Within Royal Van Leeuwen, the HR team plays a crucial role in supporting the business strategy and ensuring business continuity and growth.

About the team

The HR team has defined key priorities, amongst which driving people development, efficiency and compliance through structured processes and digitalization, accelerating global leadership capabilities through focused leadership development, and supporting strategy implementation.

The Corporate HR team is led by the Group HR Director and consists of a Global Talent & Development Manager, a Global Compensation & Benefits Manager, a Workday specialist and a Group HR manager. Also, you have over 10 HR colleagues in the regions where Van Leeuwen operates with whom you meet regularly online and in person.

Your role

The aim of this role is to develop, manage and coordinate the global compensation and benefits strategy, policies, and activities in an effective and customer focused way to optimally meet the needs of the business and support the realization of the strategic objectives. This role focuses mostly on the part of the people strategy around rewarding and recognizing employees. The global compensation and benefits processes have been fully professionalized in recent years and are powered by Workday.

You will work closely with the Group HR Director and other global HR team members, and the Workday specialist will report to you. You will also align with senior leadership and regional HR colleagues to guide and challenge them on all related compensation and benefits topics.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Develop an annual compensation & benefits plan and monitor progress on compensation & benefits projects
• Be responsible for an effective Global Job Framework including job evaluation and global and local grading systems
• Continually professionalize the Van Leeuwen global reward policies, such as promotion, mobility, and pensions, supporting the realization of business objectives
• Drive compliance on Pay Transparency
• On demand and proactively give advice to senior management on compensation & benefits related themes
• Fulfil the role of expert advisor and provide advice to the different operational companies in the area of reward, variable pay and benefits
• Drive and manage the annual global compensation cycle, including salary and bonus
• Ensure effective use, development, and maintenance of Workday, including HCM, Recruitment, Absence, Peakon, and Expenses
• Further build on the HR KPI Dashboard
• Manage, motivate, develop, and coach the Workday specialist
• Provide input for global HR strategy and policies from your own expertise area
• Ensure salaries and benefits comply with current local legislation regarding human rights and pay equity
• Monitor international competitive trends that are relevant to Van Leeuwen

Your background

This role is an ideal step if you are driven to deliver outstanding reward and recognition services on a global level with a can-do, pragmatic attitude. In addition to your in-depth expertise in compensation and benefits, you also have a strong HRIS background and an interest in broader HR projects and HR digitization. You are eager to learn and self-starting, but also like to develop others and work together in the Global HR team.

Furthermore, you recognize yourself in the following:

• A relevant master’s degree, for example in Business Administration, HRM or Business Psychology
• Experience working in a professional and international environment
• Proven and considerable experience with global compensation & benefits and change processes and projects, either in an internal or consultancy role
• Extensive knowledge and expertise in HRIS, preferably Workday
• A proven track record in digitization projects and an interest in AI developments
• Working knowledge of compensation and benefits practices and trends
• International experience and experience with organizational change
• A successful record of implementing new processes and projects with impactful results on the business
• Business and financial acumen and excellent stakeholder management skills
• The ability to convince others about your ideas and strong organizational sensitivity
• An entrepreneurial mindset and flexibility
• Strong numerical skills, attention to detail, and expertise in Excel and preferably also in Workday
• Self-awareness, a positive attitude, and the ability to build trust easily
• Excellent communication skills in English and flexibility to travel for work