Senior Compensation and Benefits Specialist
Bavarian Nordic
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As Senior Compensation & Benefits Specialist in our Center of Excellence (CoE), you will play a key role in developing, governing, and executing Bavarian Nordic’s global rewards agenda, ensuring consistency, compliance, and strong business alignment across the organization.
You will own and drive core compensation, incentives, and benefits processes globally, partner closely with senior leaders, HRBPs, Finance, and external stakeholders, and contribute directly to executive and Board-level compensation governance.
Key responsibilities
How to be successful in this role
To succeed, you proactively drive rewards initiatives that balance business needs, governance, and employee experience. You bring strong analytical and stakeholder skills, ensure consistency across complex compensation landscapes, and communicate confidently with executive leadership and governance bodies. You are comfortable operating in a listed-company environment and translating regulatory and market requirements into pragmatic rewards solutions.
Key competencies
Experience with mergers or integrations, as well as familiarity with Workday and project management, is considered an advantage but not required.
Join our Center of Excellence team
The CoE consists of highly experienced professionals working with rewards, P&O systems, analytics, development, and talent. We align organizational capabilities with Bavarian Nordic’s strategy and address gaps by developing and deploying global P&O frameworks, tools, systems, and processes. For issues spanning multiple business units, we own and drive the solutions.
You will report to Sr. Director, Center of Excellence.
What’s in it for you?
Ready to make a difference? Apply now
We are interviewing on an ongoing basis and look forward to receiving your CV. A cover letter is not required.
We kindly request that headhunters or recruitment agencies refrain from contacting us regarding this position.
Bavarian Nordic is a global vaccine company with a mission to improve health and save lives through innovative vaccines. We are a preferred supplier of mpox and smallpox vaccines to governments to enhance public health preparedness and have a leading portfolio of travel vaccines. We are headquartered in Denmark and have manufacturing, research, and sales offices across Europe and North America.
Bavarian Nordic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
For more information, visit www.bavarian-nordic.com
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