Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Develop, implement, control, and manage local compensation benefits and CBE tools, -programmes and processes. The aim is to ensure that our employees are both competitive and gender-neutral compensation, and to meet the needs of employees of all needs of employees of all generations to incentivise them to come and stay at adidas.

Key Responsibilities:

Compensation Management

• Acquire and manage local studies and establish compensation benchmarking for a position or group of positions. Advise HRBPs on results.
• Conduct and review gradings for HRBPs and provide appropriate advice.
• Create and propose salary bands by country or function.
• Maintain the job catalogue
• Support and prepare (executive) salary proposals
• Input into and implement global compensation tools, programs and processes for executives
• Preparation of STI target structure, structuring of employee groups and ensuring upload to the system
• Collecting and communicating local target achievement results

Benefits

• Managing supplier relationships and monitoring the smooth running of plans
• Regularly review local benefits plans including contract renewals and/or tenders

​​​​​​​Cross-Border Employment

• Case management of executive relocations.

Design

• Define, design and maintain local compensation, benefits and CBE policies and guidelines within the global framework.
• Policies within the global framework, including the creation and o updating of policy documents.
• updating policy documents and providing input to the required
• Works council agreements, if required
• Implement, improve and communicate local compensation, benefits and CBE programs.
• Ensure excellent administration of the programs.

Training, communication and change management

• Design and implement change management concepts for local, strategic and global compensation, benefits and CBE programs.
• Provide technical and process related training to HR
• Create, prepare and deliver local/individual communications on global, local and strategic compensation, benefits and CBE programs.

Compliance

• Identify, translate and implement new local regulatory requirements
• Ensure full compliance with legal, labour relations, tax and social security requirements
• Interpret and implement collective bargaining, collective bargaining and legal agreements and consequences
• Determine and implement locally relevant audit actions, follow up on audit action points.

Key Relationships:

• Cross-Border Employment, Compensation & Benefits
• GBS
• Rewards Teams
• HR Business Partners, Talent
• External Consultants and Authorities
• Works Council
• Finance

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Self-motivated, proactive, and continuous improvement mindset.
• Ability to work under pressure and set priorities
• Strong customer focus and service-oriented attitude
• Tolerance of ambiguity
• Team player
• Excellent presentation, communication and persuasion skills (senior management)
• Analytical and detail-oriented approach
• Excellent organisational and problem solving skills
• Ability to think processes through to the end
• Very good command of English
• Cultural awareness and sensitivity: ability to adapt working practices to meet different cultural norms
• Very good collaboration skills and ability to build effective, close and successful working relationships across all levels of the organisation

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or adequate education
• At least six years of general HR professional experience, especially in the area of Rewards