**The role**

HelloFresh is seeking a strategic and forward-thinking Lead Incentives & Equity Compensation Partner to take the lead in developing, implementing, and successfully integrating our global compensation programs. We need a standout professional who can think outside conventional frameworks - utilizing deep insights, unlock pay transparency, and establishing strong business partnerships to drive exceptional results. This position plays a vital role in ensuring our rewards structures effectively incentivize and motivate our global workforce.

Reporting directly to the Global Director of Compensation Strategy, this high-impact, visible position is central to aligning our rewards initiatives with HelloFresh’s core pay philosophy, fostering our growth objectives, maintaining market competitiveness, and guaranteeing absolute pay compliance. You will play a foundational role in defining our global rewards strategy and structuring defensible compensation frameworks.

**What you’ll do**

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnership: Partner closely with HR teams and business executives across Tech and various global divisions, offering a macro perspective on compensation alongside specialist counsel on localized strategies and pay practices.

• Compensation Program Leadership: Spearhead ongoing and upcoming strategic rewards initiatives while contributing to the design and rollout of global programs, including pay equity assessments, annual cycles, job architecture, and key talent retention initiatives.

• Analytics and Insights: Deliver advanced data-driven modeling and analytics to guide compensation frameworks, ensuring alignment with external market trends and internal equity, particularly when structuring competitive candidate offers.

• Process and Tool Innovation: Design and optimize analytical tools, workflows, and dashboard metrics in alignment with global People teams to serve specific business line demands and ensure visibility for leadership and management.

• Market Intelligence: Formulate and conduct detailed benchmarking studies to monitor market movements, bridge data deficits, and offer validated recommendations to the business.

• Advisory & Enablement: Act as the primary subject matter authority for global rewards frameworks. Create and deliver clear communication materials to educate, enable, and support HR colleagues, line managers, and general employees.

**What you’ll bring**

• Professional Experience: 8+ years of dedicated compensation experience, preferably supporting global technology sectors or corporate functions within a fast-moving international ecosystem.

• Influence & Strategy: A clear passion for the compensation space coupled with a strategic viewpoint and a demonstrated history of influencing, guiding, and counseling HRBPs and senior corporate executives.

• Analytical Capabilities: Superior analytical capacity with specialized experience handling complex datasets and building robust financial models (advanced mastery of Google Sheets or Excel is required).

• Program Development: Proven experience conceptualizing and introducing broad compensation programs within rapidly shifting business models, balancing attractive employee rewards with corporate fiscal boundaries.

• Adaptability: Highly capable of steering through ambiguity and complex organizational frameworks, with a natural agility to adapt to shifting business demands.

• Communication Skills: Outstanding written and verbal communication alongside top-tier stakeholder management capabilities.

**What we offer**

Elevate your lifestyle! Join one of Europe's fastest-growing tech powerhouses in a dynamic phase of expansion.

• Immerse yourself in a diverse global community of 90+ nationalities.

• Enjoy a competitive compensation package that goes beyond the norm, with perks like a HelloFresh- subsidized Pension Scheme, Berlin relocation support, and a Hybrid working model.

• Elevate your lifestyle with exclusive discounts on your weekly HelloFresh box and office meals.

• Invest in your growth with an annual learning & development budget, German language learning budget, and access to the HelloFresh Academy.

• Plus, we've got your well-being covered with mental health support, transportation perks, and working-parent-friendly benefits. From our 24/7 gym access, wellbeing platforms like Headspace and Spill, to sabbatical leave options, HelloFresh is not just a workplace; it's a lifestyle of perks and possibilities!

**Are you up for the challenge?**

Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.

After submitting an application our team will review this and get back to you within 5 business days.