Shape the future of compensation strategy for one of the world's most innovative companies as a Compensation Consultant at Amazon Europe. Drive impact across multiple countries while working with innovative data analytics and influential business leaders to design competitive rewards programs. In this role, you'll be at the forefront of developing compensation strategies that help attract and retain top talent across Europe. You'll leverage data-driven insights to solve complex challenges and directly influence how we reward and recognize talent in one of the world's most admired companies. As our ideal candidate, you'll bring your analytical mindset and consultative approach to:
- Design innovative compensation programs that impact thousands of employees across Europe
- Partner with senior business leaders to shape competitive reward strategies
- Transform complex data into actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making
- Lead high-impact projects that influence our total rewards philosophy
- Develop creative solutions for unique business challenges in a fast-paced environment
Why you'll love this role:
- Direct impact on major business decisions and employee experience
- Exposure to senior leadership and cross-functional teams
- Opportunity to work with advanced analytics tools and methodologies
- Career growth in a global organization with a peculiar start-up character
Key job responsibilities
- Work on a variety of projects including program design, analysis, budgeting, and implementation of new programs.
- Provide regional compensation support across the Europe region.
- Perform deep analysis on effectiveness and competitiveness of existing compensation programs and model potential impact of alternatives and future programs.
- Partner with regional and global compensation partners on compensation issues, and work on a variety of special compensation projects as needed.
- Provide guidance to the business and develop creative solutions on a variety of total compensation issues including the setting of appropriate pay levels, base pay, annual incentive pay and stock compensation.
- Consult with business on job evaluations using market data and internal evaluation.
- Document processes and build compensation playbooks.
- Partner with the Benefits team to support implementation and communications of holistic Total Rewards strategies.
A day in the life
As a Compensation Consultant at Amazon, your days are diverse and engaging. You might start by analyzing market trends for an upcoming leadership meeting, then collaborate with HR partners on unique compensation challenges. Afternoons could involve consulting with business leaders across Europe, diving into data to evaluate program effectiveness, or working on special projects like optimizing pay structures.
You'll thrive if you enjoy blending data analysis with relationship-building, explaining complex topics simply, and finding creative solutions to challenging problems. Each day offers a mix of technical work and strategic discussions, keeping you on your toes.
About the team
You'll be joining a dynamic team within Amazon's Global Line Compensation organization, reporting to the Senior Manager, Compensation Stores Europe. Our team is part of the broader Amazon Leadership eXperience (ALX) group, which helps Amazonians build rewarding careers through intelligent, data-driven products and processes.
We're committed to optimizing talent decisions, reinforcing Amazon's Leadership Principles, and simplifying processes to focus on customer needs. Our work involves engaging with HR and business leaders to address talent attraction, retention, and development needs across Europe. We leverage advanced analytics and custom dashboards to provide strategic insights, always striving to eliminate biases and drive positive business outcomes through our compensation strategies.
- Should have a Bachelor’s degree
- Solid experience in finance, compensation, or consulting with an in-depth knowledge of core compensation terminology and best practices.
- Extremely strong analytical and quantitative skills and a track record for planning, doing and auditing work. Highly detail driven with emphasis on accuracy, coupled with the ability to see the broader picture. Comfortable with large data sets.
- Knowledge with compliance and country legislation, esp. across European countries.
- Strong problem solving, communication, and presentation skills. The ideal candidate will be well organized and confident to work independently but will be a strong team player.
- The ability to work independently, take on responsibility, and be nimble in a fast-paced, change-oriented environment.
- Strong writing skills.
- Highly proficient in Excel; familiar with Peoplesoft.
- Ability to work effectively with all levels of employees within the organization
- Secondary, beyond English, language proficiency highly preferred
- Proficiency in Excel Macros; familiarity with data analytics and AI tools is preferred.
- Post Graduate degree
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