Senior Global Compensation Manager

About the role

Nexthink, a global provider of digital employee experience management software, is building a high-performing global organization across 19 countries and is looking for a Senior Global Compensation Manager. This newly created role reports directly to the Chief People Officer and leads the administration and evolution of Nexthink's global compensation framework, ensuring it is competitive, equitable and scalable.

Key responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the global compensation framework, including job architecture, grade profiles and salary bands across 19 countries.
• Lead the annual compensation cycle end to end: merit and bonus design, Workday Advanced Compensation configuration, approval workflows, manager enablement and compensation statements.
• Lead the annual benchmarking cycle: manage market-data partners, assess results against the framework and recommend band adjustments.
• Own annual pay-equity monitoring, present findings and recommendations to the CPO and track remediation across geographies.
• Partner with People Business Partners on offers, promotions and retention decisions, and design compensation approaches for cross-border relocations.
• Partner with Finance and Legal on equity-plan administration and with Finance on headcount-cost modelling and planning inputs.
• Partner with HRIS and Workday implementation teams on compensation requirements, workflows and data quality.

Required profile

• Significant global compensation experience in a complex, multi-country organization, including ownership of frameworks, benchmarking, merit and bonus programs.
• Total Rewards, Compensation or HR Technology leadership experience administering and evolving compensation frameworks at a global company.
• Experience assessing pay equity and managing remediation tracking.
• Confidence in a global, multi-currency environment, including payroll and EOR arrangements.
• Clear communication skills, able to explain complex compensation topics to HRBPs, managers, Finance partners and executives.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience running compensation cycles and configuring Workday Advanced Compensation.
• Workday expertise in HCM and Advanced Compensation is a plus.
• Experience building compensation scenarios, geo-differentiated salary bands and presenting to Finance and senior leadership.
• A track record of driving process change through technology or automation.