Senior Rewards Specialist – (Fixed Term Contract, 12 Months)
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
The Senior Rewards Specialist (Fixed Term Contract, 12 Months) will support and help lead the design, governance and delivery of Arcadis APM reward activities, ensuring alignment to Arcadis’ global reward framework, pay transparency objectives, and transition plans.
Responsibilities
- Support the design and implementation of reward structures (fixed pay, STI, LTI, benefits) aligned to global reward philosophy and market benchmarks.
- Contribute to harmonisation of reward practices across APM and Arcadis, ensuring consistency and fairness.
- Play a key role in the APM Reward Transition (2026–2027), supporting standardisation of legacy terms and alignment to the future operating model.
- Support job evaluation, job levelling and mapping activities to enable accurate reward comparisons and integration decisions.
- Ensure reward decisions are in line with global policy, salary bands, and governance frameworks.
- Strengthen controls, documentation and audit readiness to mitigate compliance and employee relations risks.
- Design and deliver comprehensive reward educational principles, enable the required cultural change, and help align APM practices with Arcadis Group People and Reward standards, particularly around pay transparency, governance and decision making.
- Provide guidance to People Business Partners and business leaders on reward decisions and pay positioning.
- Partner closely with People Business Partners, Finance, and business leadership to drive consistent awareness and application of reward practices.
- Act as a trusted advisor on sensitive reward matters including offers, retention, and structural changes.
Key Outcomes
- Consistent and policy-aligned reward decisions across relevant employee population
- Progress against reward harmonisation and transition milestones
- Improved pay transparency readiness and governance maturity
- Strong stakeholder confidence in reward advice and decisions
Qualifications & Experience
- Proven experience in compensation & benefits / reward (preferably in a global or matrixed environment)
- Strong understanding of job evaluation, pay benchmarking, and incentive design
- Experience supporting transformation, M&A, or reward harmonisation initiatives
- Analytical mindset with ability to translate data into clear recommendations
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing capability
Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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