Reward Manager - Thailand & Cambodia Laos

Job Title: Reward Manager – Thailand & Cambodia Laos

Location:U-House, Bangkok, Thailand

About Unilever

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.  

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

Job Purpose

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We provide a workplace that encourages continuous learning and professional advancement. 

Main Responsibilities

1) Business partnering on reward strategy and initiatives.

• Provide primary interface for HRBP and key providers (People Experience HR, country HR, regional HR, and Leadership teams) on all compensation and benefits-related matters.

• Provide necessary advisory expertise on reward principles for Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations, balancing local specifics with global guidelines.

• Design country reward roadmap and recommend country reward strategy and initiatives.

2) Benefit Policy formulation, review, and implementation (which includes Pension / Retirement plans)

• Works closely with procurement and in-house medical consultant on all medical and insurance related benefits.

• Manage execution and on-going policies benefit plans in Thailand (i.e., Flex Benefit, Provident Fund).

3) To conduct and lead market intelligence analysis through salary benchmarking.

• Manage external provider, i.e., Mercer, Korn Ferry Hay Group, Willis Towers Watson, etc.

• Understand organization structure and roles.

• Conduct accurate job mapping / matching for input in survey data collection.

• Update / review cost to company overheads.

• Prepare salary projection template.

• Prepare and propose new pay scales and salary increase budget ranges.

4) To advise HRBPs on job evaluation exercise while ensuring internal equity across BUs

• Role expansion

• Promotion 

• Organization structure 

5) Complete reward management pay review cycle and reward differentiation.

• Lead and implement Pay Review process.

• Ensure data within Annual Pay Review is validated with each business.

• Working closely with HRBPs and ensure completion of proposals for merit increase, VPA.

6) To lead and cascade Reward Communications sessions to the employees (periodical reward cascade sessions)

• Reward & Benefits Week, People Week, etc.

• Reward 101 for new employees (Reward induction).

• Pay Review.

7) To provide the technical expertise in assisting as needed in Global Agile Squad.

8) Building capability within the team and among HR community through rolling out of Reward 101 programs

• Reward philosophy

• Job Evaluation

RESOURCE TO BE MANAGED UNDER POSITIONS AUTHORITY

• Support headcount of 2900+

• Annual Turnover of business:EUR 1billion and Incremental TO: 5%/annum

• Support multiple business lines that includes Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, Corporate Functions, UniOps, etc. across multiple entities.

Candidate Criteria

Experience & Qualification

• Relevant 7 – 9 years Total Rewards Experience.

• Individual must be highly organized, have strong communication and relationship building skills, and a good analytical eye for detail.

• Comfortable and competent working with multiple tools, have strong analytical and good project management skills.

• High degree of Problem Solving. The Role is often faced with making decisions which must ensure fairness both to business and to individual. Partnering across different businesses under Unilever would require different understanding to provide consistent fair reward treatment, while at the same time be flexible in line with the business environment.

• High degree of change. The role will drive changes through effective and constant communication to the main stakeholders including the local HR team, global and regional reward team. The incumbent will be required to build in an excellent external reward network and maintained market intelligence.

• Negotiates and liaises with key external consultants, i.e., Mercer/ KF Hay Group / Aon, etc. on benchmarking engagement work.

• Negotiates and liaises with Insurance benefit broker.

• Negotiates and liaises with Pension Administrator.

Note: Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment journey. If you require any support to complete your application or any subsequent stage throughout your recruitment journey with us at Unilever, then please specify how we may be able to assist you.