Manager, Rewards Operations, APAC

Rewards Operations Manager, APAC
Location: Singapore
Job details: Hybrid – Permanent

Are you looking to accelerate your professional development, build a brilliant career, and thrive in a highly supportive team? At Inchcape, we're pursuing an ambitious strategy to evolve our global business and lead our industry's transformation.

You'll play a key part in delivering great experiences for our customers and colleagues. With lots of interesting opportunities and challenges for you to explore that will take us, and your progression, to the next level.

You'll be set up to deliver your best work and achieve success, with the full backing of your colleagues and mentors -a highly talented and humble team with genuine care for your wellbeing.

The Rewards Operations Manager will be responsible for managing and optimizing rewards operations across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, ensuring efficiency, data integrity, and excellence in everything we do. The incumbent will play a pivotal role in driving process improvement, enhancing system capabilities, and delivering consistent and engaging employee experience.

What will you do:

• Operational Execution: Responsible for the end-to-end delivery of total rewards operations in the APAC region, including administering salary review, bonus payouts, and benefits programs.
• Process Optimisation: Continuously review, design, and enhance rewards processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, timeliness and compliance across multiple jurisdictions. Develop Measure rewards program effectiveness.
• Systems & Data Excellence: Oversee rewards systems and tools, ensuring data integrity, accurate reporting, and integration with wider HR systems.
• Mobility Case Management: As the mobility champion for the region, work and support the global mobility team for various types of assignments within the region.
• Data & Market Intelligence: Coordinate participation in external compensation and benefits surveys, ensure accurate and timely data submission, analyze survey results to identify gaps and trends, and translate data into actionable insights by building dashboards and reports.
• Compliance & Governance: Work with the country People Directors and HR Business Partners to ensure all rewards activities and policies adhere to local employment legislation, tax regulations, and corporate governance standards. Maintain documentation including plan and policies for transparency, approval records for audit trails and governance compliance.
• Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams including Regional Rewards, HR Business Partners, People Services, Payroll, HRIS, and more, to ensure smooth and aligned processes.

About you:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in compensation and benefits operations and management.
• Proven experience in rewards operations across multiples markets in the APAC region
• Good understanding of rewards processes, systems, and operational delivery in complex matrix organisations.
• Good knowledge of compensation and benefits frameworks, pay benchmarking, employment legislation and regulatory environments across multiple APAC countries.
• Possess a collaborative mindset, with the ability to influence and challenge effectively.
• Experience with HRIS and rewards-specific platforms (i.e., SuccessFactors).
• High hands-on expertise on MS Excel and Powerpoint
• Highly analytical with a strong attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Problem analysis and solving skills.
• Exceptional project management and organisational skills.
• Comfortable working across time zones and navigating cultural nuances.

We offer you:

• MNC Exposure and Continuous Learning
• Access comprehensive health and life insurance (including dependent in health insurance)
• Enjoy exclusive colleague perks, including discounts on vehicle purchases and more.
• Hybrid working arrangement