Job reference: 11757_1753350921

Total Rewards Leader

Total Rewards Leader - Europe

Location: Remote
Reports To: P&C Leader, Europe (dotted-line to Global Total Rewards Leader)
Level: Senior Leadership
Function: Corporate Functions - People & Culture (P&C)
Geographic Scope: Europe
Travel: Up to 20%

A Career Defining Opportunity to Create and Lead

This is not just another role, it's a brand new position within ManpowerGroup Europe.

We're looking for a visionary, commercially minded Total Rewards Leader to step into this newly created position with the autonomy to design, shape, and lead a comprehensive rewards strategy across our European business. Reporting to the European People & Culture Leader, and working closely with our global Total Rewards team, you'll have a unique opportunity to define how we attract, retain and recognise talent across the region.

This is your chance to make a lasting impact and truly make the role your own.

Your Mission: Build, Influence, and Evolve Total Rewards Across Europe

As our Total Rewards Leader, you will:

  • Set the Strategy: Design and deliver region wide compensation and benefits programmes that are competitive, inclusive, and aligned to both global objectives and local market needs.
  • Drive Innovation: Introduce new approaches to sales incentives, performance related pay, and recognition that energise and engage our workforce.
  • Ensure Fairness and Compliance: Lead our strategy for EU Pay Transparency, collaborating with country teams and global colleagues to ensure compliance and consistency.
  • Support and Guide: Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and P&C teams, providing expert insight on market trends, benchmarking, and leadership reward strategies.
  • Use Data to Drive Decisions: Monitor and analyse reward effectiveness, making data led recommendations to enhance impact and return on investment.
  • Act as Centre of Expertise: Lead the development of tools, policies, and frameworks that standardise and strengthen our reward offering across Europe.

Why This Role is Unique

  • 🛠️ Build From Scratch - This is a blank canvas. You'll have the freedom to create, shape, and lead with your own vision.
  • 🌍 International Influence - Play a pivotal role across Europe while contributing to global reward strategy.
  • 🧭 Strategic Autonomy - You'll have the trust and space to innovate, lead and deliver meaningful outcomes.
  • 🤝 Cross Functional Collaboration - Work closely with P&C, Finance, and business leaders to align reward strategy with business performance.

What Success Looks Like

  • A modern, consistent, and competitive total rewards framework rolled out across Europe.
  • Clear evidence that our sales incentive plans are driving desired results.
  • High-value consultancy provided to local teams on compensation for key leadership roles.
  • Recognition as the region's go to expert for all things total rewards.

What You'll Bring

Essential:

  • Senior level experience in compensation and benefits within a multinational business.
  • In depth knowledge of European employment laws, pay transparency, and regulatory frameworks.
  • A strong analytical approach, with the ability to interpret data and present compelling business cases.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence at executive level.
  • A collaborative, consultative style, well-suited to a complex, matrixed environment.

Desirable:

  • Master's degree in HR, Business, or related discipline.
  • Proficiency with HR and compensation systems and tools.
  • Specific experience with pay equity, sales incentives, and performance-based reward design.

How You Work Matters: Clarity, Care, and Growth

We don't just focus on what you deliver, but how you lead. At ManpowerGroup, our leaders embody:

  • Clarity - You create alignment, give and receive clear feedback, and hold yourself and others accountable.
  • Care - You lead with empathy, embrace diversity and inclusion, and prioritise wellbeing and development.
  • Growth - You stay curious, ask the right questions, learn from experience, and drive continuous improvement.

Ready to Make Your Mark?

This is your opportunity to own and shape a regional function from day one. To build something meaningful, aligned to both people and business impact. To be seen, heard, and trusted.

If you're ready to lead with purpose and bring fresh energy to total rewards, we'd love to hear from you.

Create it. Lead it. Own it.

About ManpowerGroup

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As the world’s workforce expert, ManpowerGroup connects more than 600,000 jobseekers with meaningful work every day, and helps more than 400,000 clients address their critical talent needs each year.

Through our comprehensive family of brands – ManpowerGroup Solutions, Experis, Manpower, Right Management and Brook Street – we deliver innovative workforce solutions to resource, manage and develop talent. By combining global presence and local expertise, we influence how people and companies work now and how they will work in the future. It’s about creating progress, by knowing what’s happening now and what will happen next in the world of work – and sharing it to benefit all.