Total Rewards Manager at Culture Amp

People & Experience, Melbourne melbourne
Description
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How you can help make a better world of work

As a Total Rewards Manager, you’ll manage fair, equitable, and market-aligned compensation & benefits programs that enable great decisions and a great employee experience. You’ll partner across People, Finance, Legal, and Talent Acquisition to run company-wide compensation and promotion cycles, maintain and evolve salary ranges and governance, support global benefit programs and scale manager enablement so leaders can make confident, consistent decisions.

As part of this team of amazing humans,

You will 

  • Build, manage and mentor a small Total Rewards team to ensure the effective execution of all programs. 
  • Lead team members based in APAC and the US with a focus on both Total Rewards and Benefits.
  • Lead the annual compensation and promotion cycle end-to-end (planning, enablement, calibration support, reporting), ensuring consistency and equity across regions.
  • Own salary range governance and market benchmarking updates, partnering with TA and People Partners to keep offers and in-range moves aligned to our philosophy and budget.
  • Run pay equity and cohort analyses; identify risks/outliers and drive pragmatic remediation recommendations leaders can act on.. 
  • Strengthen rewards governance, policy, and compliance (e.g., bonus eligibility rules, exception processes), with clear, timely communications for leaders and employees.
  • Build and deliver manager enablement (guides, FAQs, training) on compensation fundamentals (bands, compa‑ratio, pay mix, equity basics) to raise decision quality at scale.
  • Partner with Finance to set cycle guardrails and track spend; bring tight controls and auditability to all rewards processes.
  • Monitor market and regulatory trends to evolve our total rewards strategy and stay ahead of external shifts in pay expectations, pay transparency, and compliance. 
  • Partner with the Director of People Operations to build strong connections between Reward and People Ops, streamlining processes and improving the way we deliver for our people.

You have 

  • Previous experience leading a Total Rewards & Benefits team with strong leadership skills. You are able to set clear goals, provide guidance and support to team members, and foster a collaborative work environment.
  • Deep experience in compensation/total rewards across salary, variable pay, and band architecture in scaling environments.
  • Experience with global benefits and pension programs ideally across Australia/New Zealand, USA, UK, Germany, and Serbia.  
  • Advanced analytical skills (e.g., compa‑ratio, pay mix, outlier detection, simple cohort modeling) and high standards for data quality.
  • Proven ownership of annual comp/promo cycles, range updates, and exception processes with clear stakeholder communication.
  • Policy and governance skills—able to write pragmatic policies and implement controls that balance speed and rigor.
  • Strong cross-functional partnership with People Partners, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and Legal; credible with senior leaders.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication—able to simplify complex topics for non-experts and enable decisions.
  • Exposure to US compensation practices would be beneficial  

You are

  • Values-led, data-driven, and systems-minded, with strong judgment and a bias to action.
  • Inclusive and equity-focused; you design for fairness and transparency.
  • Adaptive and continuously improving - using feedback and insights to raise the bar each cycle.