Senior Compensation and Benefits Partner, EMEA and LATAM

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  • Dublin
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 27 days ago
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Company DescriptionLinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.Join us to transform the way the world works.Job DescriptionAt LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centred on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.This role is based in Dublin, Ireland.Our Compensation & Benefits team plays a critical role in shaping how we reward performance, remain competitive in dynamic markets, and deliver a compelling employee experience. We operate in fast-paced environments and are driven to continuously improve how we design and deliver Compensation & Benefits solutions across diverse and evolving markets.We are committed to continuously improving our programs and processes, reducing complexity, increasing efficiency, and leveraging modern tools to deliver measurable business impact.Our team members combine strong individual ownership with a collaborative mindset, operating as self-starters while bringing others along, fostering partnership, and contributing to a high-performing team culture.Position SummaryWe are seeking a Senior Compensation & Benefits Partner, reporting to the Senior Director, Compensation & Benefits EMEA & LATAM. In this role, you will contribute to the development and execution of regional compensation and benefits strategies, programs, and processes.You will serve as a trusted advisor to HR Business Partners and business leaders, providing expert guidance on compensation matters across designated functions, lines of business, and geographic markets. The role carries regional program ownership and responsibility for leading key compensation and benefits initiatives that directly support business performance.Given our continued growth, the successful candidate will thrive in dynamic environments and bring multi-country Compensation & Benefits expertise. They will demonstrate strong senior stakeholder partnership, sound judgment, and advanced analytical capability within a data-driven organization.ResponsibilitiesLead the design and implementation of complex regional compensation strategies and programs, and participate in global initiatives, ensuring scalability, compliance, and alignment with business priorities.Design and evolve regional benefits strategy, applying a global‑first, locally‑relevant approach across EMEA and LATAM, shaping pensions, insurance, and risk programs that balance competitiveness, cost, compliance, and employee experience.Advise senior HR and business stakeholders on compensation strategy, market positioning, and offers, balancing competitiveness, internal equity, and risk.Drive governance and risk management practices across EMEA & LATAM markets, proactively identifying and mitigating regulatory, financial, and policy exposure.Partner on high-impact initiatives, including M&A activities, market expansions, vendor strategy, and large-scale program implementations.Deliver high-quality analytical insights and modelling to inform executive decision-making and optimise program and cost effectiveness and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.Support operational excellence through effective vendor management, offer oversight, benefit plan governance, program delivery, and employee communication.Proactively identify and implement opportunities to simplify, modernise, and scale compensation and benefits processes and tools to reduce complexity and enhance business impact.Contribute to team capability by mentoring peers, sharing expertise, and fostering strong cross-functional collaboration.QualificationsBasic Qualifications10+ years of relevant Compensation & Benefits experience, or a bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of relevant experience.Preferred QualificationsAdvanced analytical capability, including expert-level Excel and proficiency with Power BI, SQL, or similar tools.Demonstrated success partnering with senior stakeholders, influencing decisions, and delivering customer-focused solutions in complex environments.Strong knowledge of regional compensation and benefits regulatory frameworks and associated legal considerations, and employee representative group engagement, across multiple countries, ideally including LATAM.Deep benefits expertise, with hands‑on experience designing pensions, insurance, and risk programs in complex, multi‑country environments, and translating global direction into locally compliant, market‑appropriate solutions.Experience designing and analysing incentive compensation programs, including sales compensation where applicable.Experience supporting M&A activities, new market or office expansions, including due diligence, compensation and benefits assessment, and post-transaction integration.Excellent communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to operate with credibility and impact at all organizational levels.Fluency in English required; additional languages are a plus.Additional InformationPreferred Skills
  • Applied AI literacy relevant to compensation and benefits practices
  • Adaptability and continuous learning
  • Relationship building and stakeholder management
  • Strategic problem-solving, project leadership and change management
  • Executive communication and presentation
  • Data analysis, interpretation and visualisation
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