Comp Lead, Gem

**POSITION OBJECTIVES**
- Directly reporting to the Head, Global Business Unit Compensation and indirectly to the Lead Compensation Partner for GPD this position is responsible for consulting and partnering with assigned business unit clients on compensation issues and leading a variety of broader Compensation activities. Role supports businesses across multiple high growth countries.
- Supports the Head of HR for the GEM business with all aspects of the annual compensation cycle including the salary and incentive review, market data collection and analysis, market trend research, and budgeting for salary increases.
- Helps to ensure the alignment of compensation programs with global philosophy, policies and guidelines
- Helps drive compensation strategy for assigned business, consults with HR Business partners on compensation issues, and is compensation leader representing the business within GEM Compensation COEI
- Participates in assessing the competitiveness of compensation practices, including working with external consultants, as needed
- Participates in market pricing and competitive analysis, job offers, annual and quarterly compensation planning, compensation programs and regulatory reporting by partnering with members of the Legal department and other total rewards professionals
- Assists with evaluating and slotting new or revised jobs into appropriate job grades and salary ranges within Business Unit/Function/Region to ensure that they align with global structure

**POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES**
- Participates in both Corporate and Business Unit/Function-specific Compensation projects and initiatives, such as re-design of current compensation programs or design of new programs. Leads projects for the team and/or work streams in broader HR projects
- Actively supports enterprise wide projects and initiatives, provides insights to clients’ needs on enterprise wide projects and initiatives
- Assesses and provides compensation recommendations for job offers extended within specific functions, including salary, sign-on bonuses and equity buy-outs. Ensures recommendations are aligned to Takeda’s compensation pay philosophy. Evaluates and provides recommendations on job leveling requests for new roles being created within the organization
- Drives Compensation processes, including year-end process, survey participation, employee education, and development of Compensation communications. Ensures connection between these processes and HRBPs and client groups

**TECHNICAL/FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE**
- Experience in managing compensation programs and developing consultative relationship with business/HR
- Understanding of compensation requirements within the market including industry best practices, frameworks and models, needs and challenges, and market trends
- Awareness of laws and government regulations affecting compensation in the market
- Experience working in pharmaceutical industry preferred
- Experience with works councils preferred
- Research skills, ability to search various systems and databases to synthesize current and historical information to solve problems

**LEADERSHIP**
- Demonstrates strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Leadership Style and Influence - ability to use appropriate interpersonal and communication styles to motivate and direct team members towards achieving individual and team goals
- Demonstrated ability to engage with, present to, and influence all levels including Head of BU/Function HR, Head of Global Compensation, colleagues, other internal and external constituents, and contacts within Business Unit/Function/Region
- Exceptional skills required: building trust, influential communication, and ability to communicate and present accurately and effectively verbally and in writing

**DECISION-MAKING AND AUTONOMY**
- Successfully navigates organization complexity to resolve client issues
- Develops solutions to a variety of complex problems; ensures solutions are consistent with organization objectives
- Work is performed without direction; participates in determining objectives of assignment; plans, schedules and arranges own activities in accomplishing objectives; work is reviewed for adequacy in meeting objectives
- Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors, including collaboration across teams and functions, and understanding of downstream impacts
- Demonstrates excellent judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions

**INNOVATION**
- Ability to identify opportunities for greater value creation within the market aligned to the values and objectives of the organization and develop approaches for continuous improvement

**COMPLEXITY**
- Demonstrated experience working in a global environment and across multiple countries
- Demonstrated experience working with a dynamic workforce and peer set
- Ability to manage several ongoing workstreams simultaneously and prioritize effect