Global Total Rewards Director (Business Assurance)

TL;DR

Global Total Rewards Director (Business Assurance): Designing, governing, and evolving Total Rewards strategy across nearly 100 countries and 8,500 employees with an accent on compensation, benefits, job architecture, incentives, benchmarking, governance, and reward transformation. Focus on shaping competitive reward frameworks, harmonising practices, and ensuring strategic alignment with business goals and Group policies.

Location: Flexible / Global (Hybrid). Occasional international travel required.

Company

hirify.global is the world's leading testing, inspection, and certification company, recognized as the global benchmark for sustainability, quality, and integrity.

What you will do

• Develop and execute a comprehensive global Total Rewards strategy aligned with business priorities.
• Establish strong governance frameworks for compensation, benefits, job architecture, and incentive plans across 90+ countries.
• Lead global job architecture, grading frameworks, and processes for job evaluation and internal benchmarking.
• Coordinate annual global compensation cycles, including merit increases, bonuses, and promotions.
• Review and improve incentive plans, ensuring competitiveness and performance alignment.
• Drive major Total Rewards transformation initiatives, identifying gaps and implementing corrective actions.
• Lead strategic oversight of HRIS systems (e.g., Workday) supporting Total Rewards.

Requirements

• 10+ years in Total Rewards / Compensation & Benefits, ideally in global or multi-regional organisations.
• Extensive experience across compensation strategy, grading, executive, broad-based compensation, incentives, and benefits.
• Proven track record in global reward harmonization and transformation.
• Strong understanding of compensation practices across APAC, EEMEA, Europe, Americas, and emerging markets.
• Experience supporting professional services, audit, certification, or technical industries.
• Fluency in English required; other languages are a plus.

Culture & Benefits

• Open corporate and international culture with a dynamic work environment.
• Future-oriented work environment with high professional standards and a sustainability approach.
• Commitment to long-term employee development within the company.
• Lead Total Rewards for a global division operating in 90 countries.
• Opportunity to create high-impact reward strategies in a business undergoing transformation and growth.
• Exposure to executive stakeholders, global complexity, and meaningful transformation.