About the Role
As Vice President, Reward, EMEA, you'll shape the reward strategy for one of Europe's fastest-growing digital infrastructure businesses, partnering with senior leaders to build scalable, commercially focused reward programmes that support our continued expansion.
Responsibilities
- Lead all aspects of Reward across EMEA, including compensation frameworks, benefits, pay equity, EMEA payroll governance, salary benchmarking, annual compensation reviews, bonus and incentive processes, reward modelling, annual budgeting, data analysis and reward programme development.
- Lead Reward, Compensation and Benefits across EMEA, ensuring programmes are commercially aligned, competitive, equitable and scalable.
- Own the annual compensation review process, including salary reviews, bonus planning, budgeting, data preparation, stakeholder guidance, governance and communication.
- Develop and improve reward programmes across EMEA, including compensation structures, benefits offerings, incentive models, pay equity analysis and benchmarking.
- Provide oversight and governance for EMEA payroll, working closely with HR Operations, Finance and external payroll providers to ensure accurate, timely and compliant payroll delivery.
- Partner with Finance on workforce cost planning, annual budgeting, reward modelling and compensation-related forecasting.
- Use data to generate insight, identify trends, highlight risks and make clear recommendations to the CPO, CFO and senior stakeholders.
- Support pay equity, salary benchmarking and market analysis across multiple European countries.
- Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, HR, Finance, Legal and external partners.
- Bring structure, governance and continuous improvement to reward processes while keeping pace with a fast-moving business.
- Use technology and AI thoughtfully to improve efficiency, accuracy and insight while recognising where human judgement, confidentiality and relationship management matter most.
Requirements
- Experience working in a high-growth, investor-backed, private equity or commercial environment.
- Experience developing, delivering and improving LTIP, MIP reward programmes, benefits structures, compensation frameworks and incentive models.
- Proven experience overseeing EMEA wide payroll.
- Experience leading annual compensation reviews across multiple countries, including salary review, bonus planning, calibration, data analysis, budget management and stakeholder communication.
- Strong analytical capability and confidence working with complex compensation, payroll and benefits data.
- Experience partnering with senior stakeholders and providing clear, practical reward advice.
Skills
- Reward expertise
- Curiosity
- Commercial judgement
- Humility
- Analytical capability
- Stakeholder influence
Location
- London, UK
- EMEA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
Benefits
- Benefits structures
About the Company
- STACK Infrastructure develops and operates data centres for some of the world's largest hyperscale customers.
- With cloud adoption continuing to grow and AI accelerating demand, the data centre sector is expanding rapidly, and STACK is well positioned for continued growth across Europe.
