A leading FMCG company is seeking an experienced Reward Executive with strong experience in total rewards, preferably in executive and broad-based remuneration, incentives, benefits, and payroll, to join their team in Centurion. This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially astute Reward Executive to drive growth across new lines by leading the design, execution, and governance of total rewards, identifying potential opportunities, conducting strategic analysis, and recommending fit-for-purpose solutions. If you have experience in reward strategy and an entrepreneurial mindset, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

• Leads the design, execution, and governance of total rewards, including remuneration, incentives, benefits, payroll, job evaluation, and workforce cost planning.
• Ensures reward strategy aligns with business objectives, talent retention, ESG imperatives, and shareholder value.
• Develops and implements the Group Total Rewards Strategy, partnering with the Remuneration Committee on executive pay and long-term incentives.
• Ensures compliance with JSE Listings Requirements, King IV, tax, and employment laws.
• Leads the design and annual review of executive compensation, benchmarking against comparators and driving performance-linked models.
• Designs and implements annual incentive schemes, linking them to financial and operational KPIs.
• Oversees the optimization of employee benefits for cost-effectiveness and value, ensuring compliance and relevance.
• Provides strategic oversight of the end-to-end payroll function, ensuring accuracy, risk controls, and compliance.
• Drives payroll process improvement, digitisation, and automation.
• Manages the Group-wide job evaluation framework, ensuring consistency and internal equity.
• Leads the integration of reward with workforce planning, labour cost modelling, and productivity optimization.
• Prepares board-level reports and analytics for relevant committees, including the annual Remuneration Report.
• Builds and leads a high-performance Reward and Payroll Centre of Excellence, promoting reward education and transparency.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, HR, Business Admin, or related field (essential).
• 10+ years senior HR/Reward leadership experience, with 5+ years in an executive/head-of-function role.
• Proven experience managing payroll and remuneration in listed, unionised, large-scale operations.
• Demonstrated track record in executive reward design, RemCo reporting, and total reward governance.
• Experience leading job evaluation frameworks and workforce planning in complex environments.
• Success in leading reward design in complex, unionised, and geographically dispersed businesses (preferably FMCG/manufacturing).
• Track record implementing long-term incentives and reward technology platforms.
• Payroll-related certifications (e.g., SAGE, SAP Payroll) beneficial.
• Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) or Certified Benefits Professional (CBP) certification.
• Certification in data analysis or statistics advantageous.
• Registered member of the South African Reward Association (SARA).
• Deep expertise in reward strategy, governance, and compliance in a listed environment.
• Strong knowledge of payroll legislation, tax frameworks, and financial controls.
• Advanced Excel/modelling, HRIS/reward systems (SAP, SuccessFactors, SAGE, Oracle).

Contact Hire Resolve for your next career-changing move.

• Our client is offering a highly competitive salary for this role based on experience.
• Apply for this role today, contact Adrienne Steyn at Hire Resolve on [email protected] or on LinkedIn
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We will contact you telephonically in 3 days should you be suitable for this vacancy. If you are not suitable, we will put your CV on file and contact you regarding any future vacancies that arise.