Group Compensation & Reward Specialist, DOVISTA Group

The DOVISTA Group is a group of leading companies and brands on the European market for vertical windows and doors. The group consists of a number of independent brands, and its more than 7,000 employees manufacture and market windows and doors in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the UK, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland and Lithuania. DOVISTA is on an exciting growth journey, and has recently bought two other major European manufacturers, and is now the leading European façade windows and doors supplier in Europe.

The DOVISTA Group is owned by the Danish company VKR Holding A/S – one of Denmark’s most highly regarded companies with a staff of about 16.000 employees and activities in more than 40 countries. This position is based in Horsens or Herning.

Group Compensation & Reward Specialist

Are you an experienced Compensation & Rewards Specialist? And are you ready to be part of an exciting journey as you build our compensation & reward processes across a global organisation? And would you be motivated be joining a growing company in a newly created role that you can influence and shape? Then this is a great opportunity to further develop your skills through exciting projects and support of our business in an international environment.

In this role, you will build, deploy and mature our compensation and reward procedures and governance on group level. Doing so, you will support the continuously digitalising of our ways of working, enabling us to be fully GDPR and data privacy compliant. You will join our Group People & Culture Services team, and will work closely with the rest of our international centre of Excellence Team, the regional centres, local management and HR Business Partners. With engaged colleagues you will be building group-wide processes and policies, establishing clear process ownership and regionalising the P&C organisation.

Other responsibilities include:

• Build the compensation processes, including annual salary reviews, models for salary benchmarking, corporate bonus programs, etc.
• Ensure the data quality as you work closely together with the relevant colleagues regarding compensation-related data
• Drive the annual activities, such as the corporate bonus scheme, bonus pay out and the annual salary review through the regional C&R communities across Europe
• Act as subject matter expert for market data/market knowledge and support to coordinate with relevant stakeholder’s annual surveys from Mercer and other local “best of breeds”
• Lead IPE evaluations based on Mercer methodology
• Train and educate relevant HR partners and people managers in C&R principles and guidelines

Your qualifications

You can bring to the position a relevant theoretical education, and you combine your theoretical background with at least 5 years of relevant work experience in larger organizations, where you have in-depth experience with Compensation & Rewards. You have functional and hands-on knowledge in driving corporate compensation processes in a matrix organisation, and have a solid understanding of HR processes. You like to participate in projects, but you also appreciate working independently with smaller development tasks digitalising our ways of working. In this role, you will need the ability to work across borders and cultures.

On a more personal level, you organize and manage your tasks with considerable initiative, impact and structure. You have high level communications skills and are organized and disciplined in implementing projects and support tasks. You are ambitious and empathetic, and spend time on listing to and understanding the stakeholders in the different countries. You challenge status quo when you see opportunities for creating better business results. You are ready to travel to the extend needed to support and implement Compensation & Rewards changes in the business units (expected maximum 15 days in a year).

Your opportunities

In this role you will meet highly dedicated colleagues and become part of a dynamic team in which effort and quality matter, and where you can help to set the agenda with your strong results and your positive and pro-active approach. Daily life is fast paced and at times quite pressurized, however communication is relaxed and informal with a focus on learning, improvement and support.
The DOVISTA Group offers exciting challenges, great opportunities of influencing your own development with competent and committed colleagues where commitment, thoroughness and mutual respect are among the core values.