[Hiring] Reward Manager @Brambles

Role Description

We’re looking for an experienced Reward Manager to join our Americas Reward team and help deliver compensation programs across North America and LATAM.

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Provide technical advice and guidance to business leaders and HR teams on a full range of compensation, benefits, and employee share plan matters, ensuring alignment with the company’s compensation philosophy.
• Conduct job evaluations across the region, collaborating with HR to ensure cross-organizational parity and consistency in job levelling and weighting factors.
• Partner with HR Operations to ensure high-quality service delivery and continuous improvement in reward-related processes and policy standards.
• Assess and analyze market survey data to ensure remuneration programs remain competitive while maintaining internal equity. Perform gap analysis and recommend adjustments as needed.
• Lead the coordination of the annual remuneration review process, including the preparation of supporting data, materials, and statistics for senior management approval.
• Stay informed about legislative, market, and economic changes, highlighting issues and recommending adjustments to reward strategies to maintain market competitiveness and compliance.
• Collaborate with the global Reward team to ensure consistency and alignment with Brambles’ global reward initiatives and frameworks.
• Develop and mentor a high-performing team of Reward specialists, fostering a culture of excellence, learning, and continuous improvement in reward practices.

Qualifications

• A degree or equivalent qualification in HR, Business, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
• 5–8 years of experience in a large, complex, fast-paced corporate environment, ideally within a global business.
• Significant experience in compensation management, including salary planning, market pricing, job evaluation, incentive plan administration, and compensation analytics.
• Experience using compensation surveys, market data, and internal pay data to develop recommendations for pay structures, role pricing, and individual pay decisions.
• Experience partnering with HR, Finance, and business leaders to support compensation programs, governance, communications, and decision-making.
• Strong knowledge of compensation principles, salary structures, incentive plans, pay governance, and related compliance considerations.
• Strong analytical and numerical capabilities, including advanced Excel skills with lookups, pivot tables, modeling, data validation, and graphical presentation.
• The ability to interpret compensation data, identify trends and risks, and translate complex analysis into clear, practical recommendations.
• Strong project management, organization, and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong communication and presentation skills and the confidence to appropriately challenge, advise, and guide stakeholders.
• Good commercial awareness, sound judgment, discretion, and a commitment to confidentiality and high-quality work.
• Professional HR or compensation qualifications such as CCP, GRP, SHRM, or an equivalent reward-related accreditation are a plus.

Requirements

• Manage the delivery and administration of compensation programs across the Americas, including:
• Base pay and salary structures
• Annual salary planning
• Short-term incentive plans
• Market pricing and benchmarking
• Job evaluation
• Compensation analytics
• Compensation governance and related processes
• Partner closely with Global Reward, HR, Finance, and business leaders to help ensure compensation practices are competitive, internally equitable, fiscally responsible, and aligned with our reward strategy and business objectives.

Benefits

• Opportunity to have a meaningful impact on compensation across the Americas.
• Partnering with stakeholders across HR, Finance, Global Reward, and the business.
• Bringing together data, market insights, and business needs to help shape thoughtful and effective compensation decisions.

Company Description

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential.