Global Rewards Business Partner - Talent Solutions

This role serves as the Global Total Rewards partner for Talent Solutions, with a strong focus on sales and incentive design. It shapes how pay and incentives drive growth, margin, and retention across countries while ensuring governance, equity, and compliance. The role operates at the intersection of Business, Sales, Finance, and HR, translating strategy into scalable reward solutions.

This role also serves as a member of the Global Total Rewards team, supporting global initiatives (e.g., global job architecture, market pricing frameworks, pay governance and harmonization) and ensuring alignment of the initiatives with the Talent Solutions global brand including the RPO, TAPFIN (MSP), and Right Management service lines.

• Advise business leaders on how pay and incentives support attraction, retention, and performance
• Partner with HRBPs and Finance on workforce planning, capability shifts, and productivity goals
• Act as a trusted advisor on trade-offs between cost, competitiveness, global consistency, and local flexibility
• Lead annual and off cycle compensation processes, including merit, promotions, and market adjustments
• Apply global compensation philosophy consistently across regions, managing exceptions within defined governance guardrails
• Support pay equity, transparency, and regulatory readiness (e.g., EU Pay Transparency)
• Lead the annual design of sales and incentive plans, aligning plans across countries to strategic business objectives
• Partner with Business, Finance, and Sales Operations on incentive design, modeling, and scenario analysis
• Build business cases and model cost-of-sales, ROI, and performance outcomes
• Own incentive plan documentation, governance standards, and approval processes
• Clarify performance measures and reward outcomes to strengthen leadership effectiveness
• Conduct job evaluations and market pricing within a global job architecture
• Participate in global Total Rewards surveys and benchmarking activities
• Monitor external labor market trends, competitor practices, and pay movements
• Use rewards analytics to inform decisions related to retention risk, incentive effectiveness, and equity
• Stay informed on benefits and allowance in countries where Talent Solutions employees reside

• Contribute to global job architecture, salary structure design, pay governance, and harmonization across countries; support audits and pay equity reviews
• Co-create global playbooks/standards and coach HRBPs on compensation practices

• Think enterprise-first, not program-first
• Balance global scale with local relevance
• Use data and judgment in equal measure
• Operate comfortably at both strategic and executional levels
• Build trust with senior leaders by speaking the language of the business

• No direct reports initially; leads through influence across geographies and functions. May serve as project lead and coach analysts or regional TR partners during cycles and initiatives.

• Consult with P&C on talent related issues
• Partner with Sales Ops/Finance to monitor effectiveness of sales incentive
• Design/model plan changes (mix, thresholds, accelerators) and test cost-of-sales and performance sensitivity
• Partner with regional P&C on market pricing and offers; run guardrails for exceptions
• Draft communications (plan summaries/FAQs), update dashboards, and prep executive readouts
• Support Global Total Rewards work streams (job architecture refresh, structure updates, policy governance)

• 5 years in Total Rewards/Compensation, including 2 years designing and governing sales compensation and broad-based incentive plans in multi-country environments
• Fluency in market pricing, salary structures, geo-differentials, and job architecture; strong analytical modeling and Excel skills; proficiency with BI (Power BI/Tableau)
• Proven ability to translate services business models (e.g., RPO/MSP/consulting) into pay designs that drive growth and margin; influence senior stakeholders and simplify complex…