JD Sports Jobs Near Me – HRIS Specialist

Overview

JD Fashion Plc is a leading international multi-channel retailer of branded sports, fashion, and outdoor brands. Established in 1981 with a single store in the North-West of England, today JD is an industry leading retail business with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across a number of retail fascias in 32 markets around the world. JD is at the pinnacle of the global sports fashion industry, providing customers with a product range that remains both authentic and uniquely appealing across a highly differentiated omni-channel experience.

Our business model is split into Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019. In FY21, JD Sports Fashion Plc generated revenues of £6,167.3m, underlying PBT of £324.0m and net cash of £795.4m and a market capitalisation of £7.275bn.

JD won the International Excellence award at the Drapers Awards 2021 and was named best performing share of the 2010s with revenues increasing from £770m in 2010 to £6.1bn in 2021.

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role overview

Advance the People Teams impact by championing Compensation and Benefits as part of HRIS programme. Enabling clusters of European countries go live with a single solution, aimed at positioning JD as an employer of choice.

The JD People team puts the colleague at the heart of what we do to develop a level of service that emulates the JD brand and maximises colleague experience.

We are looking for a Compensation, Benefits & HRIS specialist, to govern how these interact with and leverage all other system areas with a strong understanding of benefit structures, total reward, variable pay and incentives, and compensation. You will consult and provide guidance on Compensation and Benefits design for our HRIS solution, providing expertise and guidance on the benefits of automating and standardising these functionalities.

Key Duties/responsibilities

• Create a benefit workflow and selection process as necessary.
• Design total reward statements
• Create benefit booklets and documentation for all European territories
• Partner in the design, development, and administration of employee benefit programs such as life insurance; pension plans; voluntary benefits; bonus, LTIP salary sacrifice and benefits related to government programs in all regions of the project.
• Manages the communications related to employee benefits and compensation activities, including preparing and conducting presentations for Sr. Leaders and the Organization. Develops effective employee communications to improve understanding of benefit plans.
• Ensures full compliance with all legislation and company regulations, reporting and filing requirements relating to all benefit plans. Ensures timely communications to senior management in advance of any compliance concerns and issues.
• Manages the design of the auto-enrolment process for all benefit and pension programs, including the development of timelines, communication plan across our Europe
• Partners with other members of People, Finance, and Management to ensure all programs are accurate within the HRIS solution.
• Acts as a key link to the in house reward team, designing compensation and benefits systemic solutions inline with the Group reward roadmap
• Prepares a pay review and bonus compensation tool that systemically helps to deliver a compliant fair and auditable pay review process
• Works on compensation and benefits projects for all divisions in Europe. Investigates and provides recommendations on new compensation and benefits programs in different regions where the company operates.

skills/experience/knowledge needed

• Experience working with clients, internal or external, to identify and provide compensation and benefits knowledge for large projects.
• Participates in analysis discussions to ensure the solution requirements match the system setup.
• Creates and maintains standard operating procedure implementing Benefits Programs.
• Ability to manage work, lead a workstream, and mentor junior team members

• 3+ years of experience in Compensation and Benefits Maintenance.
• Previous experience in deploying HRIS solutions across multiple territories beneficial.
• Elevated level of attention to detail with strong administrative and organisational skills and be able to prioritise your own and your team’s workload.
• Must be methodical and be able to work to strict deadlines.
• Have an awareness of GDPR and be able to act with absolute discretion and confidentiality