Senior Manager - Total Rewards | Group HR | Corporate Services
Role Overview
Of The Role: The Senior Manager Total Rewards serves as the strategic lead for Total Rewards within the Automotive and Retail Divisions of Al-Futtaim Group.
With a scope covering approximately 14,500 employees across 14 countries, this role focuses on translating group-wide reward frameworks into locally relevant practices that drive talent attraction, retention, and performance.
The role involves overseeing divisional compensation, executing annual reward cycles, managing benefits and compliance, providing strategic TR advisory, and utilizing analytics for informed decision-making.
Success in this role requires strong collaboration with HRBPs, business leaders, and the TR Transformation team, ensuring rewards strategies align with the divisional and group objectives.
Key success factors include achieving audit compliance, maintaining pay equity, and ensuring internal stakeholder satisfaction.
Key Skills for This Role
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What You Will Do
- Divisional Compensation Delivery Apply and administer the Group-wide salary structures, grading frameworks, and pay ranges across the Automotive and Retail Divisions. Manage divisional pay decisions, exceptions, and anomalies within approved governance. Act as the first point of escalation for compensation queries from divisional HRBPs and business leaders. Ensure internal equity with less than 5% anomalies annually. Achieve positive feedback from HRBPs and business leads on reward guidance. Annual Reward Cycle Execution Execute the end-to-end annual salary review, promotion, and bonus cycle for all Automotive and Retail employees. Provide financial modelling, budget variance analysis, and scenario planning to support cycle decisions. Ensure fairness, transparency, and timely delivery across all geographies using Group tools and processes. Achieve 100% audit compliance on cycle outputs. Deliver cycle reporting and dashboards within agreed SLAs.
Required Skills
- To Be Successful: Strong working knowledge of compensation structures, benefits administration, and pay cycle management. Proficiency in SAP HR, SuccessFactors, MS Excel (advanced), and PowerPoint. Ability to use analytics dashboards and reporting tools. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. What Qualifies You For The Role: Master's degree in HR, Business Administration or a related discipline (MBA preferred). 15+ years of progressive Total Rewards / HR experience in multi-country operations. Professional certifications (GRP, CCP) are an advantage. Proven track record of reward delivery and HR business partnering at scale (8,000+ employees). We’re here to provide excellent service but a little help from you can ensure a five-star candidate experience from start to finish. Before you click “apply”: Please read the job description carefully to ensure you can confidently demonstrate why this opportunity is right for you and take the time to put together a well-crafted and personalised CV to further boost your visibility. Our global Talent Acquisition team members are all assigned to specific businesses to ensure that we make the best matches between talent and opportunities. We not only consider the requisite compatibility of skills and behaviours, but also how candidates align with our Values of Respect, Integrity, Collaboration, and Excellence. As part of our candidate experience promise, we also want to make ourselves available to you throughout the application process. We make every effort to review and respond to every application.
Preferred Qualifications
- To Be Successful: Strong working knowledge of compensation structures, benefits administration, and pay cycle management. Proficiency in SAP HR, SuccessFactors, MS Excel (advanced), and PowerPoint. Ability to use analytics dashboards and reporting tools. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. What Qualifies You For The Role: Master's degree in HR, Business Administration or a related discipline (MBA preferred). 15+ years of progressive Total Rewards / HR experience in multi-country operations. Professional certifications (GRP, CCP) are an advantage. Proven track record of reward delivery and HR business partnering at scale (8,000+ employees). We’re here to provide excellent service but a little help from you can ensure a five-star candidate experience from start to finish. Before you click “apply”: Please read the job description carefully to ensure you can confidently demonstrate why this opportunity is right for you and take the time to put together a well-crafted and personalised CV to further boost your visibility. Our global Talent Acquisition team members are all assigned to specific businesses to ensure that we make the best matches between talent and opportunities. We not only consider the requisite compatibility of skills and behaviours, but also how candidates align with our Values of Respect, Integrity, Collaboration, and Excellence. As part of our candidate experience promise, we also want to make ourselves available to you throughout the application process. We make every effort to review and respond to every application.
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