Senior Rewards Specialist - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Thermo Fisher Scientific

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When you're part of our team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do important work, like helping customers to find cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe Your work will have real-world impact, and you'll be supported in achieving your career goals.


At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Total Reward team is committed to providing outstanding compensation and benefit solutions that enable growth and advance our market leader position.


We are seeking a tenacious, highly motivated, and target-driven Reward professional to support our Regional Reward team drive Compensation and Benefits strategy across the UK, Ireland, and Nordic markets.

As a Sr Compensation Analyst, you play a vital role in enabling the business to develop a modern, compelling Reward offering for our colleagues.


What will you do?

  • Manage and deliver company benefits within portfolio countries. This will include Life Insurance, Accident and Disability plans, Critical Illness plans, Medical plans and Recreational benefits.
  • Drive the alignment and harmonisation of benefits and compensation programmes in the relevant countries. Ensure our colleague proposition is aligned to the Company vision.
  • Support benefit design, development and implementation. This includes delivering efficient stakeholder engagement, colleague communication and (in the case of the UK) flexible benefits system management.
  • Manage existing benefit providers and brokers in support of benefit renewals/market reviews, and supporting claims received within allocated countries
  • Support and/or lead projects providing/contributing Reward expertise as required. This includes Mergers and Acquisition activity and the integration of newly acquired companies.
  • Actively review each market to identify new opportunities to improve existing benefit programmes, ensure benefits remain competitive, aligned to legislation, and aligned with company strategy
  • Assist in planning annual pay and bonus rounds in Workday. This includes market movement analysis, budgeting relative with local collective/statutory increases, validation and testing of tools and systems, process execution and data integrity checks
  • Partner with HR and Business on compensation issues, offering creative solutions on matters including offermaking process, job evaluation, and internal equity adjustments

Education
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience within a related field


Experience:

Demonstrable experience of either leading, or supporting the development and delivery of country level programmes is critical.


Given the countries this role will support, a familiarity of working in a Unionised or Works Council governed environment will be viewed positively.

Further, experience of working with flexible benefit systems will also be advantageous (Darwin platform preferred).


Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:


  • Robust Project Management capability. You are capable of crafting plans, identifying and handling interdependencies, and delivering quality outcomes against agreed targets
  • Strong financial competence. You can link Reward prioritises to key business drivers, ensuring spend is targeted towards initiatives with the highest return on investment
  • Strong interpersonal skills including communication. You can build relationships and influence across all levels of the organisation, able the communicate complicated concepts in a way our audiences can understand.
  • Focussed on delivery. You are comfortable multi tasking within a dynamic and fastpaced environment
  • Independent. You are comfortable operating as a "self starter" with mínimal direction, and can develop relationships and business knowledge remotely
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