Practicebetter is looking for an Associate Compensation & Benefits Director to execute and administer international compensation and benefit plans and programs across Latin America. In this role, you will perform analysis and benchmarking, partnering with HR, Finance, Legal, and business leaders to ensure market competitiveness, internal equity, and compliance.
What You'll Do
- Be a member of the global Total Reward team while managing regional compensation and benefits matters in support of the business and local/regional HR Business Partners.
- Participate in annual salary administration programs, including salary grade and structure maintenance & creation.
- Provide data analytics for the maintenance and development of incentive or salary increase budgets.
- Participate in administration of annual incentive, and/or salary increase programs.
- Conduct market benchmarking analysis to determine competitive positioning of the organization's jobs and pay programs.
- Evaluate the organization's job descriptions, providing feedback and consulting to the business as needed.
- Participate and manage salary surveys by matching company jobs to survey reference jobs and provides organizational data to survey providers.
- Lead the gender pay gap reporting process (as they become applicable, i.e., UK, France).
- Ensure HR systems are configured/maintained in a way that support overall compensation priorities and policy.
- Support the development of international benefits strategy and oversee its implementation, ensuring the benefits offering is strategically aligned, competitively attractive, and cost effective.
- Maintain inventory of all benefit plans and policy documents per country/business unit, including renewal dates, and tracking of costs.
- Manage annual carrier/policy renewal process, working with brokers and vendors on contract negotiations and initiating periodic market reviews.
- Partner with HR and the applicable business to assess, recommend and establish appropriate market level of benefits when establishing operations in new countries and/or upon acquisition of new companies.
- Lead the administration of pension schemes.
- Be the point of contact for incoming benefits related invoices (liaison with Finance for invoice processing).
- Build external relationships and participate in international benefit surveys to ensure awareness of competitive market practices.
- Partner with field HR to handle employee questions and assist with processes such as leave of absence, sickness, and accidents.
- Coordinate with legal team, HR team and outside counsel on immigration matters.
- Partner with HRIS for ongoing data integrity checks.
- Produce HR Metrics related to compensation and offer insights to the Business and HR Teams.
- Provide guidance, coaching, mentoring and training to HR Business Partners on compensation-related issues.
- Provide input on compensation policy and procedure creation.
- Generate compensation metrics and provide analysis and recommendations based on them.
- Lead and/or participate in HR and Total Reward projects.
- Support US and Global compensation matters as needed.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in a related major.
- 12 or more years of compensation and benefits experience within mature international organizations.
- Experience working across different countries and general understanding of process, payroll and labor law differences.
- Expertise in messaging to support compensation and benefit programs that are aimed at leadership and employees.
- Advanced proficiency with market pricing, survey methodology, salary structures, regression analysis, and data modeling.
- Solid understanding of global regulatory environments and pay transparency legislation.
- Good understanding of different cultures (both business as well as country) and demonstrates an appreciation of cultural diversity, with sensitivity to differences in attitudes and norms.
- Data Analytics & Storytelling: Translates data into insights and executive-ready narratives.
- Influence Without Authority: Shapes outcomes across HR, Finance, Legal, and business leaders through credibility and relationships.
- Strategic Thinking & Execution: Operates at both 30,000 ft and ground level; delivers polished programs on time.
- Stakeholder Management & Communication: Tailors messages to diverse audiences; simplifies complexity.
- Change Leadership & Enablement: Drives adoption of new frameworks and practices through training, playbooks, and clear guidance.
- Project Management Excellence: Demonstrates ability to plan, organize, and execute complex global compensation projects. Effectively manages timelines, resources, and stakeholders; communicates progress clearly; and ensures successful delivery of initiatives within scope, budget, and quality standards.
- Bias for Action & Ownership: Is a 'self-starter'. Proactively identifies issues; takes end-to-end accountability for outcomes.
Nice to Have
- Experience in Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical or other industry directly related to one of PMG’s service lines.
- Experience with PayFactors and SAP/SuccessFactors HRMS a plus.
- Experience matching jobs, as well as designing and developing a salary grade structures.
- Has worked with short term incentive plans and/or sales plans.
- Or equivalent combination of education, professional training and experience that provides the individual with the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job.
Team & Environment
You will be a member of the global Total Reward team.
Work Mode
This role is remote and open to candidates based in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, or Peru.
Precision Medicine Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
