Rewards and HR Data Specialist

Your professional experience is valued here

A welcoming and supportive setting where you can develop and make a real difference in the world – that’s what you’ll find at COFRA. We’re a family business, geared to creating lasting value and united by an ambition to change industries and society for the better. Aspiration and entrepreneurism are encouraged and rewarded with opportunity. Teams are diverse yet close-knit. Relationships matter. People matter.

What we can achieve together
One of our greatest strengths is our people: talented, dedicated professionals who are true experts in their field, committed to the pursuit of excellence and open to new opportunities and ways of capturing them. Our different business entities are supported by the HR partners, COEs and Operations team, all with the objective to bring to life the best employee experience. To support our organization, we are looking for a Rewards and HR Data Specialist to support modelling and analysing reward, HR and market data to support people related decision making for all entities and locations in scope.
Specifically, you will focus on the following topics:

Cyclical Reward analysis

• Analyse market data and build pay ranges and salary matrices for all in-scope entities of COFRA Group and all locations
• Participate in the design and optimisation of the year-end pay review process and the setup of the HR system
• Prepare pre and post pay review analysis for senior management (including the Chief People Officer and Chief Executive) to inform pay decisions and sign-off, including providing headline commentary
• Lead the data submission process for annual market compensation surveys (e.g., Willis Towers Watson); this includes gathering and validating data inputs for submission; managing queries from the survey providers; and analysing the survey results including building reports to support the pay review programme
• For budgeting purpose executes the cost and impact modelling of the annual pay cycle, both in terms of salary and variable pay across COFRA Holding and for the Executive (top management) population 

Non-cyclical Reward activities

• Provide the relevant input for compensation (including benefits) packages for joiners and movers in in-scope entities
• Build and maintain analytical tools in an appropriate application (e.g. BI) to support people, including reward, decision making
• Conduct ad-hoc research and analysis on reward issues to support delivery of reward initiatives, including providing market data and interpreting the outputs
• Lead on DE&I reward analysis for in-scope entities
• Work closely with the COFRA HR Operations team to ensure data accuracy for reward analysis

HR Data Champion

• Gather requirements from stakeholders for HR/business analysis
• Develop and manage BI solutions through Microsoft applications; this includes building models and reports to support wider COFRA Group HR analytics (e.g., tenure/turnover analysis and workforce planning)
• Translate business requirements and processes into technical specifications that can be used to drive the data warehouse design and configuration 
• Provide support as required to ensure the availability and performance of BI dashboards to meet the requirements/requests from senior management (including outside the HR community)
• Provide technical assistance and cross training to HR colleagues

What you will need

• University degree or other equivalent education; HR/business/ finance/economics preferred but not essential
• Minimum 2 years’ working experience in reward (compensation & benefits) with a focus on analysis and reporting preferred
• Experience of an international environment an advantage
• High level of numeracy, and good level of statistical knowledge
• Strong capability of manipulating, analysing, and reporting complex volumes of data
• Keen attention to detail with a focus on data quality
• Strong communication skills and ability to engage with key stakeholders at all levels
• Advanced user of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint in Office 365 environment
• Advanced user of Power BI
• Strong time management and prioritization skills
• Fluent in English (German and Dutch highly preferred)

What we offer you in return
COFRA offers notable benefits, including a competitive pension plan. The opportunity itself is a great way to have a direct impact on the Group and realize potential across a multitude of areas. Training and development is provided to all employees.  

If you fit the profile and are interested in doing good while doing business, we would love to hear from you.

COFRA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin or disability. None of this gets in the way of hiring and retaining the best people.