Manager, Reward Services - EMEA at Tetra Pak

At Tetra Pak, we commit to making food safe and available, everywhere, and we protect what's good - protecting food, protecting people and protecting the planet. By doing so we touch millions of people's lives every day. And we need people like you to make it happen.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Manager, Reward Services - EMEA

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join the Global Reward Services team as a Manager Reward Services.   
• This role will be responsible for executing Reward processes and operations and drive continuous improvement activities to optimize operational efficiency and effectiveness, while leading that team of Reward professionals within designated area of responsibility.
• This is a permanent position that can be based in any of our locations in EMEA (except Switzerland).  

What you will do

• Lead and manage a team of Reward professionals with multi-country responsibility in EMEA (direct reporting line).
• Be responsible for leveraging the Reward team’s competence, skill and overall development.
• Lead the Rewards service delivery for area of responsibility via local expertise and knowledge ensuring high quality and timely delivery of globally standard processes in the designated zone (e.g. market data benchmarking, VP calculation, Annual Compensation Review cycle, compensation planning, calculators’ development, etc.).
• Monitor process performance through tracking defined KPIs, identify improvement areas, and drive continuous improvement activities in relation to process, tools and competencies.
• Acts as the Local Process Driver for the assigned geographical zone by implementing global policy rollouts locally and observing local market realities and inputs to other stakeholders.
• Review and approve local exceptions according to the global decision matrix and governance.
• Be the advisor and speaking partner for various stakeholders from the business but also within HR&T community on specialized local rewards’ related requests to individual, local teams, employee/line manager, and country specific cases.
• Drive, participate or contribute to Reward projects.
• Provide interpretation of company policies and guidelines related to compensation and benefits to the local teams to ensure implementation and compliance worldwide.
• Analyze compensation and benefits data and develop proposals as needed to support decisions, run autonomously competitiveness analysis as per business need.
• Be hands on and up to date and ensure compliance with developing a regulatory environment.
• Establish strong vendor relationships to continuously identify local market practices and trends.
• Partner with local teams for corrective actions following self-assessment or audit results to ensure governance and compliance (e.g. gross ups of BIK, benefits harmonization, etc.). 

Requirements
We believe you have:

• University Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Economics, Finance or HR.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in HR, including 5+ years’ hands-on experience in international Compensation & Benefits operations.  
• Proven experience and performance as an effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills.  
• Strong knowledge of market best practices for multi-country compensation and benefits or local specifics.
• Understanding the impact of unionized environments and dynamics on reward activities.
• Strong analytical skills and data management through reward tools that lead to complete solutions for business requests.
• Experience in project management to demonstrate the ability to drive continuous improvement and change management.  
• Reward knowledge at proficient+ level, including job evaluation / leveling, in depth market analysis and ability to develop and present data analysis in a structure and comprehensive way, annual compensation review cycles, benefits benchmarking and analysis, management of total remuneration concepts.
• Consulting mindset/approach to diagnose needs and deliver solutions.
• Have a profound understanding of external market data vendors methodology.
• Experience in leading reward teams with or without authority will be considered a plus. 

Application Closing Date
10th February, 2026.