Head of Group Compensation & Benefits in Brussels, Belgium

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

The Group Head of Compensation & Benefits is responsible for providing direction, guidance and expertise on key compensation and benefits matters for the Group leaders, and collaborate with Finance, HR and Business Leaders worldwide to ensure that compensation and benefits programs align with Group strategy and key business initiatives, facilitate talent mobility, performance evaluations and IT access right management.

This role encompasses 3 key areas: annual review process, long-term incentives (LTIs), and guidelines/policies to ensure optimum compensation and benefits.

• Annual review: manage the process, for Key Employees and Leaders at Eurofins (ca. 2500 people across the world), including recommendations on salary guidelines, communications with leaders and top management on the overall process, verification of key metrics for bonus calculation, production of KPIs on various elements (fixed, variable, discretionary, etc.), management of the tools, templates and deliverables in a comprehensive and coherent Performance Management framework that should guarantee transparency and fairness on compensation packages changes as well as provide important information on career and mobility wishes and development needs.

• Long-term incentives: establish clear policies to award LTIs, manage the administrative process with the custodian and the LTI electronic platform provider, ensure smooth communication and controls with recipients and leaders, prepare ad hoc analyses as requested by the Remuneration Committee and top management, manage the annual review system, LTIs, careers and potential development needs of the key talents of the Group (ca. 5000 people) in line with the needs of the HR department and leaders.

• Guidelines & policies:  establish and manage clear guidelines and policies on compensation & benefits matters, benchmarking market and peer practices, to ensure that the Group proposes adequate and attractive schemes to its core population of talents, advise leaders and the Remuneration Committee on these matters, including the communication of such elements to the relevant population across the Group.

• More generally, collaborate on a variety of projects in relation to your scope; review processes and propose improvement/optimizations in your scope; develop, recommend, and administer approved policies and procedures in your scope.

• Manage and develop the team within your scope: 14 FTEs between Belgium & Poland, via 3 direct reports.  Dotted line: IT team in India (12 FTEs).

• Master’s degree in Human Resources / Audit / Finance / Accounting / Economics;

• 8 to 10 years’ experience of which at least 5 in Compensation and Benefits in a complex, fast moving, organization;

• Capability to set up compensation and benefits policies from scratch in an international environment with sophisticated compensation requirements;

• Experience in deploying global HR systems and IT project management, as we will need to continue enriching the current IT landscape for C&B matters;

• Strong analytical skills, including financial model building in order to manipulate large amounts of complex data, analysing, interpreting, and producing recommendations to support higher decision making;

• Accuracy, attention to detail and strong audit skills;

• Ability to work effectively at both strategic and operational levels;

• Ability to manage and participate in multiple projects, priorities, manage timelines and escalate issues as needed;

• Strong and confident communicator with the ability to influence others;

• Proven leadership and management skills;

• Project management, execution and conceptual, so as to build strong processes related to Annual Review Processes, LTI, job titles / grades;

• Decision making skills and pragmatism.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! The Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.