Compensation & People Rewards Expert

Join the EPEX SPOT Team: Innovate, Collaborate, Thrive

Join the EPEX SPOT Team: Innovate, Collaborate, Thrive

Job Summary

You contribute to shaping and implementing the company’s Reward strategy. You oversee Compensation & Benefits processes and drive transversal HR projects. You'll contribute to pay transparency transformation, HR systems/process improvements, regulatory follow‑up, and change management advisory for the Management Board.

Reporting to the HR Director and working in close collaboration with the Controlling team, you act as a Reward expert, partnering with Management to ensure consistent, competitive, and compliant remuneration practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize all Compensation & Benefits programs (salary structures, bonus schemes, benefits portfolio).
• Conduct benchmarking exercises and ensure salary ranges/bandwidths are defined, updated, and aligned with market data.
• Lead the implementation of European and country‑specific pay transparency regulations (mainly France, Netherlands), ensuring compliance and supporting local HR stakeholders.
• Support the annual salary review & bonus cycle, including process design, data quality check, communication, and stakeholder guidance.
• Act as Safe‑Keeper of Reward frameworks, ensuring integrity, governance, and adherence to internal and external regulations.

HR Systems, Processes & Transformation

• Develop and enhance the use of Lucca (SIRH) and other tools to improve data quality and governance, process efficiency, and automation.
• Identify needs for system/process evolution and lead related change initiatives (configuration, documentation, communication).
• Review HR internal processes related to C&B, performance, and workforce planning to ensure they remain efficient, transparent, and compliant.
• Support HR digital transformation, especially in areas linked to Reward and performance management.

HR Projects

• Lead transversal Reward or HR transformation projects, ensuring alignment with business priorities and regulatory developments.
• Drive the family job review, job mapping, and the definition of EPEX criteria for job classification and leveling.
• Advise the Management Board on topics related to employee remuneration, benefits, and transformation impacts.

Advisory Role

• Serve as a trusted advisor to HRBP, managers, and executives on Reward and HR systems topics.
• Provide strategic guidance on pay transparency, regulatory compliance, and organisational impacts.

Performance Review & Talent Processes (in coordination with HR Talent Acquisition & Development)

• Improve and support the performance review process, integrating pay transparency elements and ensuring coherence with compensation frameworks.
• Contribute to the design of performance calibration practices and their connection to remuneration.
• Ensure consistency between Reward policies, performance management, and development pathways.
• Ensure appropriate systems implementation and development.

Key Requirements

Hard Skills

• Strong expertise in Compensation & Benefits principles and practices
• Ability to design and implement Reward concepts
• Capacity to synthesize complex data and produce clear business‑oriented recommendations
• Strong appetite for HR tools (HRIS, reporting tools, Excel)
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving abilities
• Solid data accuracy and rigorous attention to detail
• Project management skills, including methodology, documentation, and stakeholder management
• Ability to design processes and translate regulatory requirements into operational HR solutions

Soft Skills

• Strong coordination skills and responsiveness
• Ability to explain, advise, and influence various stakeholders
• Team spirit, diplomacy, adaptability, and stress resilience
• Clear and structured written and verbal communication
• Presentation skills: ability to conduct meetings and deliver key messages concisely
• High sense of responsibility, reliability, and discretion

Language Skills

• Fluent English (written and verbal)

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HR, Finance, Economics, or related fields.
• Prior experience in Compensation & Benefits, HR controlling, or Reward consulting.
• Proven experience managing projects and working transversally with multiple teams.

Location

Your work location will be in Paris, with no specific restriction among other EPEX office locations, and an attractive hybrid work policy.

Benefits of working with Us

• Hybrid Working Conditions: We offer you the flexibility of working from home or other locations for the best possible work‑life balance.
• Training Opportunities: We invest in your continuous development with a dedicated annual training budget to enhance your skills through various upskilling programs and initiatives.
• Career Path: We support your career aspirations with clear pathways for advancement within the company and the EEX Group.
• Internal Mobility: We offer and support the possibility to explore new roles within the company to expand your skills and experience.
• Leadership Journey: We promote a culture of recognition and reward with the EPEX SPOT leadership journey that encourages everyone’s progression and development.