Senior Rewards Specialist

Own a remuneration strategy that rewards 2,900 colleagues fairly, transparently and attractively

By ensuring we reward all our colleagues fairly and competitively, and in compliance with evolving legislation. As the Senior Rewards Specialist, you own bol’s remuneration strategy across both the technical and non-technical workforce. This entails developing and maintaining compensation frameworks grounded in the Korn Ferry job evaluation methodology, running the annual benchmark cycle, and translating market dynamics, internal equity, and regulatory requirements into reward structures that attract and retain talent that serves our shared customers and partners best.

From executive compensation packages to pay parity monitoring, you’ll positively impact every aspect of how we value people.

Developing and implementing an attractive compensation policy for an organization that evolves faster than the market benchmarks. You’ll own the Performance-Reward cycle as ‘product owner’, grounded in the principle that rewards recognize performance, not the other way around. How do you determine the right salary range for a role that doesn’t exist in the broader job market? How do you create transparency in how employment terms are structured, so colleagues understand what they earn, and why?

How do you implement EU pay transparency legislation without sacrificing flexibility? And how do you manage executive remuneration with precision confidentiality? To maximize your impact, you’ll need to balance data-informed rigor with strategic judgment, weighing what’s attractive, financially responsible, and ethically sound – often in the same conversation.

You report directly to the Director of P& Organisation Performance. While you often work closely with the Employee Benefits & Affairs team and other P& colleagues, your specialty is remuneration strategy, salary structures, and compensation governance. In essence, you’re bol’s go-to person for everything compensation-related: from edge cases involving specific roles to organization-wide transformations that potentially affect thousands of colleagues.

You’ll develop and maintain the remuneration framework, guided by our Job Family Framework. You’ll oversee the annual benchmark process, managing salary surveys, proposing framework adjustments, and preparing yearly budgets and rewards-related projects. Additionally, you’ll manage the executive compensation process for bol’s senior staff. You’ll be the product owner of the Performance-Reward cycle, collaborating with the People Experience Center on execution, and you’ll manage the annual Ahold Delhaize calibration cycle for the board and directors.

In addition to these structural responsibilities, you’ll be a welcome, trusted advisor. You’ll coach both business partners and people Experience partners who need to navigate delicate compensation trade-offs, serve as a discussion partner for the Works Council on compensation topics, and ensure pay parity is structurally monitored and analyzed. You’ll translate fiscal legislation into executable policy and report on compensation practices to internal and external stakeholders, including ESG reporting.

Your key responsibilities:

• Develop and coordinate bol’s overall remuneration strategy for technical and non-technical workforce
• Maintain the remuneration framework based on the Korn Ferry job evaluation methodology
• Guide the executive compensation process, including Ahold Delhaize stakeholder management
• Run the annual benchmark cycle: salary surveys, framework adjustments, and budget proposals
• Own the Performance-Reward cycle and manage the Ahold Delhaize calibration process
• Proactively monitor pay parity and promptly identify and address compensation bias
• Translate fiscal and EU legislation into a compliant, executable compensation policy
• Serve as a trusted advisor to People& teams, managers, the Works Council, and senior managers

You have substantial experience in compensation and benefits management, with a strong grounding in (executive) compensation.…