Total Rewards Partner

Role overview

As the Total Rewards Partner, you will work closely with the business to deliver, coordinate, and govern reward programs. Your focus will be on carrying out compensation and benefits processes, keeping them aligned across regions, and giving leaders practical guidance, insights, and data-backed recommendations.

You will help maintain reward practices that are consistent, compliant, and competitive while working across People, Finance, and global Total Rewards teams. This position is hybrid in structure, reports to the People Business Partner, and is based in the New York Support Office.

What you will do

• Act as the rewards partner for the sales market, making sure local execution stays aligned with the global total rewards approach while remaining relevant to market needs.
• Own the delivery of rewards programs for the sales market, including compensation, benefits, mobility, and other specialist reward areas.
• Support the rollout and communication of pay structures and compensation principles across the sales market.
• Manage annual reward cycles such as salary review, incentive planning, budgeting, and market benchmarking.
• Promote consistency and compliance with global policy while ensuring local practices meet legal and regulatory requirements.
• Work with people leaders and business stakeholders to shape reward strategies and support decision-making for specific parts of the organization.
• Partner with Finance and People teams to support cost planning and maintain accurate compensation data in global people systems.
• Provide expert guidance and training to people teams and senior leaders on complex compensation and benefits topics.
• Collaborate with Continent Rewards Leads and Global Total Rewards teams.
• Review internal and external market data to support fair, competitive pay practices within the sales market.
• Help improve global rewards processes, tools, and data quality on an ongoing basis.

Qualifications

• A university degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Solid experience working in compensation and benefits.
• Strong analytical ability, advisory skills, and project management capability.
• Prior experience partnering with senior HR and business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Fluency in English; additional languages are considered an advantage.

Additional information

H&M highlights the following as reasons to join the team:

• The company welcomes candidates from all backgrounds, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, and disability.
• The organization is guided by seven core values that have supported its success for more than 75 years.
• Employees have access to Colleague Resource Groups for community building and networking.
• The workplace encourages authenticity and inclusion, allowing you to bring your full self to work.
• You can connect with a large global talent community with broad opportunities for growth.
• Employee discount is available at H&M and COS.

This posting describes the key responsibilities and requirements, but it is not exhaustive. Additional duties may be assigned at the company’s discretion.

Compensation

The annual salary for this role is 165,760. The company states that this range was set in good faith for the role and location at the time of posting, though actual pay may be higher or lower depending on the candidate’s qualifications. The range may also change in the future.