Regional Head of Reward

**What's the role?**:
Reporting to the Region Head of HR for Northern Europe, we are looking for an experienced Head of Reward seeking a global career, to join us at our Northern Europe headquarters in Manchester. Along with your team, you'll be responsible for implementing the compensation and benefits process for the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia, as well as representing the Region on Global reward topics.

**Who is Hilti?**:
Hilti is where innovation is improving productivity, safety and sustainability in the global construction industry, and beyond. Where strong customer relationships are creating solutions that build a better future. Where there is pride and a sense of belonging across our 120 locations, carrying right into our lives and homes. Where people are exploring possibilities, leveraging their potential, owning their personal development and growing lasting careers. Hilti is very proud to be ranked as the UK's 12th best large organisation to work for in the Great Place to Work survey.

**What does the role involve?**:
In addition, the role holder will:

- Own and drive the Reward Strategy for the Northern Europe Region
- Maintain global grading structure through evaluation of positions against Hilti global grading standards and support organisation design and evaluation of jobs
- Enforce salary policy and guidelines, in order to maintain consistent compensation banding for each grade level
- Advise on compensation packages for new hires and promotions across the Northern Europe region, making recommendations for competitive offers within salary policy, whilst considering internal equity
- Manage all General Manager and Leadership Team employment offers and contracts, bonus and merit reviews
- Manage the international assignee process for the region in conjunction with the International Assignments team at global HQ in Schaan, maintaining an accurate database of information and reporting where required
- Conduct annual compensation benchmarking review & analysis in order to provide recommendations on annual salary policy for all GB employees and General Managers and Directors
- Prepare and lead the Region Compensation Board
- Manage and review external vendor relationships where appropriate.
- Ensure consistent provision of competitive and attractive company benefits for all employees in GB
- Communicate, train and support HR team and the Business to ensure a high level of understanding on our compensation philosophy and methodology

93% of our people say they’re proud to work for Hilti, thanks to the quality of our products and the way we look after our people.

**What do we offer?**:
We really value our people and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this. Some of our benefits include:

- Genuine career advancement (more than 80% of all leadership roles are filled internally)
- 6% employer pension contributions
- Private Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme
- Company vehicle and fuel card for sales roles
- 33 days' holiday (inc. Bank Holidays) plus the ability to purchase 5 days more annually
- Paid leave to work on charitable projects
- Hilti Benefits Box, a reward platform offering a cycle to work scheme and shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
- Different ways to work flexibly, including working from home and compressed hours
- Employee resource groups focused on gender, mental health, race, disability, LGBTQ+ and sustainability topics
- Trips to locations such as Milan, New York and global HQ for high performers across all teams

Our Regional Head Office is based at Circle Square in Central Manchester, where we are located a short walk from Oxford Rd train station and St Peter's Square tram stop. We offer a hybrid working pattern between the office and home and different ways to work flexibly so please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.**What you need is**:

- Extensive experience in compensation and benefits in commercially driven organisation
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with experience leading people & projects
- Ability to influence internal and external business partners and establish a mutual sense of trust and cooperation to build and nurture relationships
- Highly numerate and confident working with data and systems
- Excellent attention to detail with ability to analyse complex data and present in a clear and concise manner
- Results-driven and able to work effectively to deadlines and under pressure in a dynamic, ever-changing environment
- Proactive and self-motivated with ability to prioritise tasks; can easily differentiate critical issues from the non-urgent
- Desire to have a global career with a willingness to relocate internationally should development opportunities require

**Who should apply?**:
We have an excellent mix of people and some of our best account managers joined us with no experience. So, if you’ve never worked in sales or construction, that’s fine with us