Global Job Evaluation Partner (Global Scope, Not Location Specific)

At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life.

In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few.

Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential.

You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives.

You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Location: Not location-specific, global scope/location

Purpose: The purpose of the Global Job Evaluation Partner is to drive the implementation of the Global Career Framework, to educate the people team and managers about our career framework, and to create and maintain a consistent system of record.

Reporting lines: The Global Job Evaluation Partner reports directly to the Global Reward Manager, together forming an integral part of the Global Performance and Reward COE of Arcadis.

Individual accountabilities:

• Creating a job evaluation structure with thorough guidance around the application and manage expectations and timelines about deliverables
• Driving the consistent implementation of the career framework throughout the company through structured project planning and stakeholder engagement
• Developing and implementing a platform to register job evaluation results in a digitized and automated way
• Assigning the correct job titles to the right roles and handling and tracking any exception management cases
• Educating and training people team members and managers about the Hay evaluation system and our job titling guidelines
• Developing clear governance around job evaluation and job titles and ensuring this is applied
• Determining success metrics, using data analytics to identify inequities and inconsistencies, and recommending corrective actions
• Participating in projects, including improvement and automation activities, in particular in SME areas
• Stay informed about outside market developments in the field of job evaluation structures and job titles.

Key shared accountabilities:

• Together with the Capability & Workforce Readiness COE, improve the career framework to support an internal equitable grading system and an internal career development framework
• Together with the Global Performance & Reward Technologies Manager developing a platform to digitize and maintain job evaluation results and job titles assignments

Decision rights:

Owns:

• Job evaluation outcomes
• Job titles outcomes
• Governance around job evaluation and job titles

Influences:

• Prioritization of evaluation process when there are competing demands

Vetoes:

• Exceptions to the job framework and titles that are not within the guidelines and haven’t been approved through governance

Profile requirements:

Our ideal candidate has either experience as an external job evaluator and is looking to develop a career in-company and sees this opportunity as a steppingstone or has been working close to this field internally and is keen to build further expertise in the area of rewards and benefits.

The candidate has honed analytical skills to understand an organization and translating that to the career framework.

The candidate has excellent communication skills to understand the content of a role and to explain the job evaluation result with clarity.

The candidate is firm in defending job evaluation and job title outcomes yet flexible enough to understand the challenges in the business.

The candidate will demonstrate sensitivity around organizational dynamics and feel comfortable to challenge appropriately and escalate where needed.

For this role Arcadis values professional experience across the following priority areas:

• Breadth of experience: Working internationally, across different industries and business lines and/or functions, bringing this breath of experience to bear when understanding and evaluating roles
• Data and technology: Adopting data-driven decision-making, leveraging data to create and demonstrate value.

  Tech-savvy and comfortable and curious about technologies.

• Living our purpose: Role model our values, showing a passion for supporting communities and social initiatives and showing attention for the planet and sustainability.

Main working contacts:

• People Leadership Team (PLT)
• Performance and Reward COE
• Capability & Workforce Readiness COE
• People Business Partners
• External vendors and partners in the rewards and benefits area

Recruitment agencies need not respond.

Arcadis.

Why Become an Arcadian?

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet.

We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable.

By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth’s resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA.

Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all.

But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet.

As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions.

Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.

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