About This Role
Eir’s purpose is to connect for a better Ireland. Our performance ambition is to be the number one choice for telecommunications and technology solutions, delivering for our customers today and into the future. The role of Human Resources is to ensure we have the right leadership and culture along with the right skills and capabilities to brilliantly execute the business strategy, to bring our purpose to life and to deliver eir’s performance ambition.
Why This Role
The Head of Reward and Benefits will be a strategic partner to the business, shaping the Reward strategy to drive performance through a dynamic and future focused Reward and Benefits proposition, benchmarked externally to ensure we are leading the way in everything we do. The role holder will ensure that our reward and total compensation offering enhances eir’s Employee Value Proposition and Employer Brand, driving business performance by ensuring we attract, motivate, reward and retain the best talent.
Dimensions
This Senior Leadership role sits on the HRLT and is a member of eir’s extended leadership team. The role holder is accountable for leadership of the Reward function and has people management accountability for the Reward, Benefits and in-house Payroll team. The role is a strategic partner to eir’s senior leadership team, managers and employee representatives, building trust and buy-in through strong leadership, exceptional communication and engagement and outstanding execution across all our Reward, Benefits and Payroll processes, approx. 3,000 employees across the Island of Ireland.
Expectations From The Role
Lead and deliver Group-wide Reward, Compensation and Benefits strategy and execution across the Island of Ireland, ensuring at all times that eir’s total reward offering fully aligns to the Business and HR Strategy, and supports eir’s values, culture and behaviours.
Lead and manage eir’s in-house payroll operations across the Island of Ireland, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant payroll operations with robust governance, strong controls and audit readiness.
Lead the design and execution of eir’s total reward proposition including compensation and benefits, long and short-term incentives, commission and recognition programmes. Own the end-to-end strategy, design, vendor partnerships and financial oversight of employee benefits programmes.
Lead pension administration including scheme governance, vendor/administrator relationships, regulatory compliance and financial oversight.
Manage Executive reward programmes, including long-term incentive plans.
Implement and deliver retention programmes for critical and top talent, ensuring alignment with business performance outcomes. Ensure a clear link between reward and retention and motivation of top talent, ensuring eir’s reward and recognition programmes support a high-performance culture, reinforce eir’s values and behaviours and enhance employee engagement.
Deliver exceptional employee engagement ensuring full understanding of the total reward proposition.
Embed a strong governance culture, with compliance built in by design across all reward processes, systems and frameworks ensuring compliance with financial, legal and regulatory requirements. The role holder has full accountability for ensuring strong governance and oversight, financial controls and compliance is at the heart in everything we do.
Lead the design and implementation of eir’s reward framework, building a transparent reward framework and job architecture to ensure pay transparency, consistency, internal equity and external competitiveness. Implement pay benchmarking, job evaluation and market positioning frameworks.
Lead continuous improvement programmes, focused on simplification and harmonisation to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the HR function. Partner effectively with key stakeholders to drive transformation, automation, simplification and data-led decision-making across reward, benefits and payroll processes.
Act as a trusted senior advisor to the HR Leadership Team, Senior Management team and Senior Leaders on Reward, Benefits and payroll matters, providing insight, challenge and expert judgement.
Provides regular reporting, insight and analysis to CFO and CPO on budgeting, modelling, forecasting, and cost tracking, providing recommendations on pay and benefits trends, risks and opportunities.
Maintain and update reward policies, ensuring clarity, accessibility, and compliance with legal requirements.
Requirements For A Successful Application
Proven senior leadership experience in a senior leadership role, leading the end-to-end Reward, Compensation and Benefits agenda including Payroll and Benefits operations.
Strong track record of leading large-scale reward and benefits transformation, including implementation of legislative changes.
Deep expertise in leading all aspects of reward and benefits including, Executive Reward, long-term incentives, pay transparency and reward administration, compliance and governance.
Commercially astute with the ability to balance performance, cost, risk and employee experience.
Highly credible influencer at all levels including Executive and Senior leadership level.
Highly numerate, with strong data and analytics capability.
Top Leadership Characteristics for Success
Consistently delivers results in a fast-paced, complex environment.
Deep accountability and ownership for outcomes.
Creates clarity and alignment, capable of balancing strategy and execution
Models eir’s values and behaviours and sets the standard for leadership excellence.
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