About our role:
This role supports the governance and continuous improvement of Lactalis Australia’s total rewards framework, encompassing compensation, benefits, recognition, mobility, and people data insights. Ensuring the design, development, maintenance and administration of these programs, policies, processes and systems are compliant and meet business objectives.
Responsibilities include:
- Oversee the governance and quality assurance of people and compensation data with SuccessFactors and integrated systems. This includes being hands-on with configuration, data integrity, and system administration to ensure efficient People operations.
- Partner with payroll to align master data, pay structures and reporting hierarchies, ensuring consistency across systems.
- Support the delivery and ongoing development of Lactalis’ salary, incentive, and job evaluation processes ensuring market competitiveness, internal equity and compliance with internal policies and external obligations.
- Coordinate the annual salary review cycle including system readiness, budget control, data validation and analytics.
- Conduct benchmarking of programs and maintain vendor relationships to ensure a cost-effective value add benefit offering.
- Support the People Experience team in the review and governance of total rewards related policies and frameworks.
- Manage submissions of cyclical reporting including Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) submissions, pay equity reviews, and market benchmarking submissions.
- Lead the delivery of accurate and timely monthly people metric reporting and analysis and support projects to optimise data collection and reporting.
- Partner with the HR and payroll team to ensure reporting definitions, data lineage and KPIs are consistent and validated.
- Administration and monitor expatriate and international assignment arrangements in alignment with Lactalis Group policies.
- Maintain oversight of global mobility cost tracking and benefit alignment.
- Maintain up-to-date awareness of industrial frameworks, taxation and superannuation impacting pay and benefits.
About you:
The Total Rewards & People Reporting Lead role requires a blend of leadership, technical expertise, and strategic thinking. Candidates must:
- Have a Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Data Analytics, or a related field (or possess equivalent industry experience) and have 4–6 years of experience in HR, compensation, rewards, benefits, or people/workforce analytics.
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of remuneration frameworks and compliance, including Modern Awards, market benchmarking, and job evaluations, and have a proven ability to manage remuneration data accurately while delivering insightful analytics to support decision-making.
- Previous experience in total rewards, including exposure to annual salary reviews, variable remuneration plans, benchmarking, job evaluation methodologies (such as Hay and Mercer), and salary surveys, is required.
- Advanced Excel and HRIS reporting skills are essential, with experience in SuccessFactors highly desirable.
- Possess exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, high levels of numeracy and data analytics capability, and strong attention to detail.
- Should be accountable, a motivated self-starter, and adept at problem-solving and project management.
Our story:
Ours is a STORY of a family business created by the Besnier Family in 1933 and is today the worlds’ No. 1 dairy company. We are 85,000 loyal team members working across 100 countries and together we create the #LactalisExperience.
Lactalis Australia’s iconic and heritage brands are our PASSION, providing quality and nutritious products for all Australians. We are humble, proud and resilient. We care for our employees, land, farmers and consumers, which is our driving purpose to ensure a responsible and sustainable dairy industry.
We take pride in developing our internal talent and encourage entrepreneurship by bringing together pragmatic and tenacious personalities. Our accountability ensures we have ownership within our roles and with our EXPERTISE and dairy "know how", sets us apart.
Lactalis is a supporter of reducing barriers that exist due to traditional working practices and therefore flexible work arrangements will be considered for this role.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage applications from people regardless of gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs or ability.
If you are ready to join the #LactalisExperience Apply now!