Compensation Manager, HR​/Recruitment

Condé Nast is one of the world's most renowned media publishing companies, creating and distributing every type of media today, spanning print and digital publishing in all formats. With a portfolio of some of today's most influential brands, the company continues to grow its audience through a global operational and content infrastructure across its 12 owned and operated markets. Headquartered in New York City, the company's owned and operated markets include China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, UAE/Dubai, the U.K., and the U.S., with additional local license partners in over twenty additional markets across the globe.

Lead brands include Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Architectural Digest, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, Allure, Ars Technica, Bon Appétit, House & Garden, Pitchfork, Tatler, and Vogue Business.

London, GB

Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, CN Traveller, Vanity Fair, Wired, The World of Interiors, House & Garden and Tatler, among many others.

We are headquartered in New York and London and operate in 32 markets worldwide, with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers across print, digital, video and social platforms.

Condé Nast thrives on collaboration, and our teams come together in the office four days a week (Monday - Thursday).

We value diversity of background, views and cultures. We celebrate people for their personal qualities, skills and contributions, recognising the power our brands have to influence and shape culture.

Reporting to the Vice President, Compensation, the Compensation Manager will lead on all compensation related matters including job architecture, base salary, short term incentives, pay programs and related projects for the UK and European markets (France, Germany, Spain, Italy).

• Creating and maintaining salary structures for the UK & Europe markets for the People Business Partner and TA teams to use for recruitment and promotion
• Partner with People Business Partners and TA on offers and bespoke benchmarking in exceptional cases and where new roles are added to the structure
• Working with Legal and local market People teams, ensuring ongoing compliance with the EU Pay Transparency Directive
• Owning the UK Gender Pay Gap reporting and action planning, and leading on pay equity studies across our European markets
• Partner with the rest of the global compensation team on various compensation projects from planning and implementation to execution. Projects include, but are not limited to, job architecture, compensation analysis (both base salary and annual short-term incentive), survey participation, creation of salary structure, job title harmonisation and reorganisations.
• Partner with the rest of the global compensation team on execution of core processes (merit, promotions, benchmarking and pay equity) to support the UK and European markets in ensuring alignment and consistency.
• Work collaboratively with the People Business Partners, Global Compensation, People Operations teams on adhoc compensation requests to support the business
• Approve Workday compensation transaction items (promotions, transfers, compensation changes and employee data edits, where appropriate).

• Strong, proven experience in compensation and/or human resources
• Professionalism and maturity a must, ability to deal with confidential data
• Advanced skills in MS Office applications (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) or Google Suite
• Experience in Workday and working with traditional and non-traditional short/long term incentive plans
• Ability to produce detailed, accurate reports and insights that support sound decision-making
• Curious and…