Senior Lead, Compensation & Benefits (All Genders)

Company Description

More than 20 years ago, zooplus was one of the first to bring the pet category into the world of eCommerce. Today, we stand strong as Europe’s leading online pet platform, delivering moments of happiness to more than 9 million pet parents each year.

We're on a mission to create joy for pets and their parents, driven by our core values of Care, Courage, Openness, and Simplicity. At the heart of everything we do, they inspire us to grow, raise the bar for our customers and fuel a pet-first business.

Job Description

As Senior Lead, Compensation & Benefits, you will play a critical role in shaping zooplus’ global reward strategy. You’ll design forward-looking approaches to compensation and benefits that attract, motivate, and retain top talent across Europe. This is a senior specialist role with high visibility, where you’ll partner closely with business leaders, the executive team, and People &Culture colleagues to ensure our reward framework drives both employee engagement and business growth. 

You’ll not only lead on core reward processes but also act as a thought partner to the business, bringing external insights, shaping new initiatives, and ensuring our practices remain competitive, fair, and transparent. 

Key Responsibilities

• Reward Strategy & Design: Lead the development and ongoing evolution of zooplus’ compensation philosophy and global reward framework, balancing market competitiveness, internal equity, and business needs. 
• Executive & Senior Stakeholder Engagement: Advise senior leaders and partner with the executive team on reward decisions, pay structures, and incentive design. 
• Annual Reward Cycle Leadership: Drive all reward-related processes linked to performance and talent cycles, ensuring seamless delivery and strong business alignment. 
• Incentives & Recognition: Shape and oversee bonus, long term incentive, and recognition programs, ensuring they are motivating, sustainable, and aligned with company priorities. 
• Benefits Strategy: Partner with local teams to refine and evolve benefits offerings across Europe, ensuring relevance, consistency, and employee impact. 
• Pay Transparency & Governance: Lead initiatives that promote fairness and transparency while staying ahead of evolving European regulatory requirements. 
• Job Architecture & Career Frameworks: Oversee and enhance our job architecture, ensuring clear career pathways and alignment with pay structures. 
• Data, Insights & Market Intelligence: Provide senior leadership with robust analysis, benchmarks, and insights to inform decision-making and future strategy. 
• Change Leadership: Act as a champion for simplification and modernization in reward processes, bringing a continuous improvement mindset. 

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in Compensation & Benefits, with exposure to international and complex business environments. 
• Proven track record of designing and implementing compensation strategies and incentive programs. 
• Strong knowledge of European (particularly German) compensation practices and regulatory trends. 
• Skilled at engaging and influencing senior leaders, with confidence presenting to executive-level stakeholders. 
• Experience leading complex reward cycles, driving process improvements, and embedding change. 
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into insights and strategic recommendations. 
• Experience with compensation systems (Workday preferred) and familiarity with both monetary and non-monetary reward approaches.

Additional Information

Additional Information:
With more than 1,000 passionate professionals located across 6 European offices, we believe our success comes from working together and leveraging our international strengths. Expect a hybrid work setup: 60% in-office, 40% remote, collaborating with colleagues across locations.

Our benefits:
🐾 20% discount in our zooplus shop
📖 Internal and external training
🎈 Team events
#LI-Hybrid
✈️ 28 vacation days and days off on 24th and 31st of December
🏋️ Corporate rates at a local gym chain (Body & Soul)
📱 Company mobile phone for work and personal use

Want to know more? Learn more about zooplus here, and check out our LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube to get a glimpse into the zooplus culture.

zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.

zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.