Head of Remuneration, Benefits and Performance

Title: Head of Remuneration, Benefits & Performance

Location: Melbourne Australia

Job Description:

About the Role

Join a growing ASX-listed leader as our Head of Remuneration, Benefits & Performance. Joining the business at a pivotal time of growth and transformation, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact and contribute to our ongoing success.

About the role

You will lead our enterprise-wise reward, benefits and job architecture strategy, and provide strategic advice to the ELT and senior leaders. You will drive a fair, competitive and commercially sustainable reward framework that supports talent attraction, retention, performance and organisational growth.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Strategic Leadership - leading our reward, performance and job architecture strategy, providing expert advice to executive leaders and other internal stakeholders while driving governance, market competitiveness, workforce analytics and data-driven decision making to support organisational performance, affordability and long-term growth.

• Remuneration Strategy and Framework Development – leading our enterprise performance and remuneration strategy, driving goal setting, performance outcomes, reward differentiation, salary reviews and pay governance to ensure market competitiveness, legislative compliance, pay equity and alignment with business objectives.

• Benefits, Incentives and Rewards Management – designing and leading employee benefits programs and benchmarking initiatives, ensuring offerings remain competitive, aligned to employee needs, and enhancing our employee value proposition and overall workforce experience. You will also design, govern and manage short-term and long-term incentive plans.

• Governance and Reporting - leading remuneration governance, compliance and workforce analytics, ensuring adherence to legislative obligations, effective risk management, gender pay equity, and data-driven insights that inform reward strategy, workforce planning and executive decision-making.

• Job Architecture and Organisation Design – leading the development and governance of our job architecture framework, ensuring consistent job evaluation, role classification and organisational design practices that support workforce capability, career pathways, role levelling and strategic workforce planning.

About you

You candidate will have:

• Considerable experience in remuneration, benefits, reward governance or broader HR disciplines, including the development and execution of remuneration strategies within large, complex and geographically dispersed organisations.

• Demonstrated experience partnering with Executive Leadership Teams and senior stakeholders, providing strategic advice on remuneration, workforce planning, organisational design, governance and compliance matters. 

• Proven track record leading remuneration review cycles, job architecture frameworks, performance frameworks, workforce analytics and reward transformation initiatives. 

• Strong knowledge of remuneration frameworks, including Mercer or Korn Ferry methodology and experience with HR analytics.

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance or a related field (postgraduate qualifications would be highly desirable).

About us

Service Stream is an equal opportunity ASX-listed business that develops and operates Australia's essential services networks across telecommunications, utilities, transport, defence, and social infrastructure industries - we keep communities connected.

Your next role comes with:

• Flexibility – all flexibility requests are genuinely considered. This role offers hybrid working from our modern Melbourne CBD office across from Southern Cross Station.

• Career development – we offer growth opportunities and support internal mobility. You will have access to skill enhancement through our online learning system and onsite training.

• Access - discounts for hundreds of businesses such as Woolworths, Air BNB, The Iconic, JB HI-FI, Dan Murphys, Bupa Health Care, and Specsavers. We also offer access to novated leasing and a share matching program.

• Paid leave - parental, cultural, community service, defence, study, corporate volunteering and purchased leave available.

• Culture – we are dedicated to fostering a workplace environment that values and celebrates safety, diversity and inclusion, and meaningful recognition.