Who we need
As Lead, Compensation & Benefits (C&B), you will take functional and strategic ownership of our Total Rewards function. You’ll design, enhance, and audit compensation, benefits, and rewards programs across our international organization, ensuring they drive engagement, performance, and growth.
This is a remote position. We welcome candidates based in European time zones (GMT-3 to GMT+4).
Job responsibilities
- Provide functional and strategic leadership for our Compensation & Benefits function: develop, refine, and continuously improve compensation, bonus, and benefits policies for a fast-growing, multinational team.
- Build from scratch or re-engineer Total Rewards processes, ensuring compliance with local legal requirements, alignment with market standards, and reflection of our vibrant corporate culture.
- Manage workforce cost budgeting as a unified system: oversee planning and control, and regularly analyze risks and effectiveness.
- Conduct comprehensive compensation analytics and benchmarking; deliver strategic recommendations and expert support to top management.
- Lead the implementation of LTI (long-term incentive) programs and localize, adapt, and support a wide range of reward schemes, including recognition, wellbeing, and non-monetary incentives.
- Drive the automation of all key C&B processes, leveraging HRIS, integrations, and dashboards.
- Build, mentor, and lead a talented Compensation & Benefits team.
- Collaborate closely with HR Business Partners, HR Operations, and Finance to ensure consistency, efficiency, and alignment across the organization.
Key qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Total Rewards/Compensation & Benefits, including building and scaling processes in large international organizations.
- Proven track record of building C&B functions from scratch: creating frameworks, rolling out, and standardizing processes.
- Experience leading global projects to implement compensation and reward systems, covering at least 5 countries (with experience across different jurisdictions preferred).
- Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing teams, including mentoring C&B professionals.
- Advanced expertise in budgeting, designing, and evaluating reward systems (including financial rewards, benefits, LTI, stock options, bonuses, and recognition).
- Skilled in automating C&B processes (HRIS, systems integration, dashboarding, IT solution design).
- Advanced proficiency with Excel and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau).
- Resilient and highly skilled in stakeholder management, able to communicate and defend proposals at the executive level.
- Fluent English for business communication, presentations, and negotiations (C1+).
We offer you
- Flexible schedules and opportunity to work remotely.
- Ambitious and supportive team who love what they do, appreciate each other, and grow together.
- Internal programs for adaptation and training, development of soft skills, and leadership abilities.
- Partial compensation for participating in external training and conferences.
- Corporate English school: Group and individual lessons, speaking clubs with colleagues from all over the world.
- Corporate prices on hotels and travel services.
- MyTime Day Off - an extra non-working day without loss of compensation.
Product
Emerging Travel Group is a global travel-tech company whose brands have been operating in over 220 source markets since 2010. We specialize in developing advanced online booking platforms for all types of clients — from individual tourists to travel agents and companies organizing business trips. Our solutions empower hoteliers to effortlessly showcase their accommodations, boosting visibility and attracting a broader audience.
Our mission is to create, distribute, and operate the most convenient travel products. We constantly innovate and break the rules of the highly complex travel industry to make travel more widely available for individuals, more rewarding for professionals, and simpler for everyone.
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