Compensation & Benefits Officer

Are you a Compensation & Benefits Officer who is eager to learn and willing to develop your HR knowledge in an evolving work environment?

A unique maritime adventure

Your role in the story

As a Compensation and Benefits Officer, you will play a key role across several critical areas of Human Resources. Your responsibilities will include:

• Global mobility, supporting and coordinating the international relocation and assignment of employees;
• HR policies, rules, and regulations, ensuring compliance and contributing to the development and implementation of internal frameworks;
• Compensation and reward, designing and managing competitive and equitable salary structures;
• Employee benefits, overseeing programs such as pensions, insurance, and other perks that enhance employee well-being;
• Annual company agreements and union relations, participating in negotiations and maintaining constructive dialogue with employee representatives.

In this role, you contribute directly to attracting, retaining, and motivating talent, while aligning compensation strategies with organizational goals and legal requirements.

Is this the job for you?

• Minimum of 2-3 years of relevant work experience in the field of Compensation & Benefits;
• Higher Vocational / Bachelor degree, preferable, HR, Labor or Fiscal law or business administration;
• General knowledge of (international) payroll;
• Excellent communication skills, fluent in Dutch and English, both written and spoken;
• An independent work approach combined with operational excellence;
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office/Excel.

Here is what it takes to be a real Heerema colleague

• Learning mindset, which means being open to feedback, curious, and eager to learn;
• Personal leadership which means you are an entrepreneur at heart, have the mindset of a founder and take control of your own work and development.

Working at Heerema Marine Contractors

Making the impossible possible offshore, this is what drives us at Heerema! To execute our offshore projects we must innovate, engineer and develop to find solutions for our clients’ challenges. We are passionate about sustainability and are guided by our Sustainability Roadmap to reduce our impact on the planet. Working with Heerema means working in an international, informal, and friendly environment where you will meet likeminded and passionate colleagues.

Here's why people love working with us

• Working on challenging projects;
• Extensive onboarding process and opportunities to develop;
• Fun Friday-afternoon get together with colleagues;
• Excellent perks and benefits, including a personal performance bonus, travel allowance, and contributions to your pension and insurance;
• Free exercise facilities;
• 30 days off to fully recharge;
• A modern and easily accessible office in Leiden.