Job Description
About us:
Restaurant Brands purpose is to be a thriving business built on brands that employees and customers love and trust. We have amazing global brands; Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, and Carl’s Jr and operate across New Zealand, Australia, California and Hawaii.
About the role:
The Compensation & Benefits Manager is responsible for designing, managing and continuously improving the organization’s reward framework, ensuring it is competitive, fair, compliant, and aligned with business strategy.
The role balances strategic reward design with operational excellence, supporting talent attraction, retention and performance, while maintaining cost discipline and governance.
Key accountabilities:
Compensation Strategy and Governance; design and maintain the organisation’s compensation philosophy, frameworks and principles, ensuring internal equity, external competitiveness while aligning with business priorities.
Salary & Incentive Programs; manage annual compensation review cycles, design and administer short term incentive and bonus schemes and partnering with Finance to ensure budget alignment and cost control.
Design and manage employee benefits programs, while ensuring these are competitive, cost-effective and aligned to employee needs.
Stakeholder and supplier relationship management.
Market benchmarking & analytics; conducting regular market benchmarking using external surveys and data sources and analysing compensation trends and provision of insights and recommendations to HR and the Leadership team.
What you will bring to the role:
6-10 years’ experience in compensation & benefit/total rewards experience within medium to large organisations – preferably in a multi-country or multi-entity environment.
Proven ownership of compensation cycles and benefits programmes.
Proven exposure to and experience in market benchmarking and reward analytics.
Technical and functional knowledge across compensation frameworks, job evaluation and grading methodologies, incentive design principles, benefits design and vendor management.
Knowledge in Labour law and reward-related compliance.
Seasoned practitioner working with HR systems and payroll interfaces.
What we offer:
Working with internationally recognised Brands, and other markets.
The opportunity to grow your career and utilise your expertise within the company
Active on-site social club.
Convenient Penrose location close to train station and free onsite parking
Working from home flexibility one day a week.
Apply now
Ready to bring your practical expertise and experience to a business that supports continuous innovation and improvement, where you will be a part of a supportive, highly engaged talented global team? Apply today and help shape the next chapter of Restaurant Brands.
Restaurant Brands purpose is to be a thriving business built on brands that employees and customers love and trust. We have amazing global brands; Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, and Carl’s Jr and operate across New Zealand, Australia, California and Hawaii.
About the role:
The Compensation & Benefits Manager is responsible for designing, managing and continuously improving the organization’s reward framework, ensuring it is competitive, fair, compliant, and aligned with business strategy.
The role balances strategic reward design with operational excellence, supporting talent attraction, retention and performance, while maintaining cost discipline and governance.
Key accountabilities:
Compensation Strategy and Governance; design and maintain the organisation’s compensation philosophy, frameworks and principles, ensuring internal equity, external competitiveness while aligning with business priorities.
Salary & Incentive Programs; manage annual compensation review cycles, design and administer short term incentive and bonus schemes and partnering with Finance to ensure budget alignment and cost control.
Design and manage employee benefits programs, while ensuring these are competitive, cost-effective and aligned to employee needs.
Stakeholder and supplier relationship management.
Market benchmarking & analytics; conducting regular market benchmarking using external surveys and data sources and analysing compensation trends and provision of insights and recommendations to HR and the Leadership team.
What you will bring to the role:
6-10 years’ experience in compensation & benefit/total rewards experience within medium to large organisations – preferably in a multi-country or multi-entity environment.
Proven ownership of compensation cycles and benefits programmes.
Proven exposure to and experience in market benchmarking and reward analytics.
Technical and functional knowledge across compensation frameworks, job evaluation and grading methodologies, incentive design principles, benefits design and vendor management.
Knowledge in Labour law and reward-related compliance.
Seasoned practitioner working with HR systems and payroll interfaces.
What we offer:
Working with internationally recognised Brands, and other markets.
The opportunity to grow your career and utilise your expertise within the company
Active on-site social club.
Convenient Penrose location close to train station and free onsite parking
Working from home flexibility one day a week.
Apply now
Ready to bring your practical expertise and experience to a business that supports continuous innovation and improvement, where you will be a part of a supportive, highly engaged talented global team? Apply today and help shape the next chapter of Restaurant Brands.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Compensation and Benefits Manager position is now open for candidates interested in the Labour/Helper Jobs sector. This role in Auckland offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Labour/Helper Jobs is a plus.
