Compensation and Benefits Specialist

2 weeks ago


United Kingdom Akamai Full time

Are you excited to be a part of a dynamic and growing global compensation and benefits team?

Are you excited to play a key role, shaping the employee compensation, benefits, and wellness experience.

Join our Compensation and Benefits Team.

Akamai's EMEA C&B team is an HR Centre of Excellence and a strategic partner to the business. From strategy design and program delivery. The team plays a significant role, contributing to the employee value proposition.

Partner with the best

Our team is a key HR centre of excellence and a strategic partner to the business. From strategy design to program delivery. Partnering with the regional HR team, and other key constituents to build and support strategy. The team plays a significant role in contributing to the employee value proposition in EMEA.

As a Compensation and Benefits Specialist, you will be responsible for:

  • Providing day-to-day consultation, guidance, and general program management on all EMEA C&B and wellness matters.
  • Ensuring a performance driven, market attractive, fair and compliant compensation and benefits program.
  • Scaling the EMEA function while balancing alignment with corporate C&B frameworks and local regulatory requirements.
  • Developing, delivering and maintaining effective program education/communication via e-mail, company Intranet and employee engagement platform, to increase understanding, promote programs and shape employee engagement.
  • Managing benefit vendor relationships.
  • Ensuring the administration of benefits is in line with current government regulations and company policy.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have experience developing, managing, and implementing global compensation programs and country-specific benefits and wellness programs.
  • Have the ability to identify challenges and develop appropriate solutions while meeting competing and shifting deadlines.
  • Have solid interpersonal and customer relationship skills to handle difficult and sensitive matters.
  • Have experience identifying concepts, creating business cases, influencing senior management and creating key stakeholder buy-in.
  • Have awareness of C&B market trends and legislative requirements in the EMEA region.
  • Have experience in a matrixed organization, building relationships at all levels. Establishing trust, respect, competence and confidence.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

  • Your health
  • Your finances
  • Your family
  • Your time at work
  • Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you

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