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About the Role
We have an exceptional opportunity for an experienced Compensation & Benefits Business Partner to join our Asia Pacific People & Culture team. This highly visible role will lead the delivery and evolution of performance and reward programs across Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea. Partnering closely with senior leaders, HR teams and global stakeholders, you'll develop innovative reward strategies that attract, retain and motivate top talent while ensuring alignment with Cushman & Wakefield's global philosophy and regional business objectives. This is the ideal opportunity for a commercially minded reward specialist who enjoys combining strategic thinking, stakeholder influence, analytics and project delivery to drive meaningful people outcomes. This is an individual contributor role and will suit and astute professional happy to work at a “strategic hands-on” level.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of compensation and benefits programs across Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea region
- Partner with business leaders and HR teams to develop strategic reward solutions
- Manage annual compensation and performance review cycles
- Design and enhance compensation structures, salary frameworks and allowances
- Review and optimise sales incentive and variable compensation programs
- Conduct remuneration benchmarking, market analysis and salary surveys
- Provide expert advice on reward strategy, executive remuneration and pay-for-performance frameworks
- Drive employee understanding and engagement with reward programs
- Lead end-to-end reward projects from design through implementation
- Support M&A activity, strategic hiring initiatives and workforce planning through reward modelling and analysis
- Develop reports, analytics and insights to support business decision-making
- Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory and governance requirements across Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Sth Korea
Requirements
- 10+ years' experience in Compensation & Benefits, Reward, HR Consulting or related disciplines
- Strong experience managing reward programs across Australia and New Zealand markets, and ideally Japan and Sth Korea
- Expertise in compensation strategy, salary benchmarking and job architecture
- Proven experience designing incentive and sales compensation plans
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to align reward strategy to business objectives
- Advanced stakeholder management skills with experience influencing senior executives
- Strong project management capability within complex matrix environments
- Advanced analytical skills with strong Excel capability
- Experience using Workday and HRIS platforms
- Strong understanding of remuneration trends, market practices and regulatory requirements
- Bachelor's degree required
- Postgraduate qualifications highly regarded
- Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia
Skills
- Compensation strategy
- Salary benchmarking
- Job architecture
- Incentive plan design
- Sales compensation plan design
- Stakeholder management
- Project management
- Analytical skills
- Excel
- Workday
- HRIS platforms
- Remuneration trends
- Market practices
- Regulatory requirements
Location
- Melbourne
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- 10+ years' experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Benefits
- Regional scope with exposure to senior leadership
- Opportunity to shape reward strategy across multiple markets
- High-impact role driving business and people outcomes
- Exposure to executive remuneration, incentives and strategic workforce initiatives
- Collaborative and highly experienced regional HR team
- Career development opportunities within a global organisation
- Flexible and supportive working environment
About the Company
- Cushman & Wakefield is a global leader in commercial real estate services, with 50,000+ employees across 60 countries.
- In Australia, we partner with some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver innovative property solutions across office, retail, industrial and logistics assets.
- Our strength lies in our collaborative approach, deep market insight and ability to integrate services to deliver exceptional outcomes.
- We are driven by a client-first mindset and a commitment to excellence, empowering our people to think differently and create value at every stage of the property lifecycle.
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, Cushman & Wakefield encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and female candidates to apply.
- Cushman & Wakefield promotes safety at all times.