Function
Total Rewards - Shared Services
We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data.
If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.
The Team
The Total Rewards Specialist will provide Total Remuneration support across compensation, data, and local remuneration practices. Acts as a key advisor to Finance, Talent Acquisition, HR, Data Operations (GPS) and business stakeholders, supporting complex and senior-level positions, compensation analysis, market competitiveness, retention actions, and local pay initiatives. Ensures the accuracy and integrity of remuneration data and HR systems, while coordinating provisions, system configuration, and country-specific compensation adjustments. Supports informed decision-making through market assessments, cost analysis, proposals, and executive-level recommendations.
The Role
- Conduct compensation market benchmarking and analyze external market competitiveness.
- Provide expert advice to local HR and key stakeholders on compensation-related matters, ensuring the consistent and effective application of compensation practices and policies.
- Develop compensation proposals and recommendations for new, niche, and senior-level positions.
- Partner with Finance on compensation provisions, ensuring accurate inputs and calculations.
- Act as the primary compensation point of contact for Talent Acquisition Group (TAG) on complex and senior-level roles.
- Ensure accuracy, validation, and integrity of compensation data across HiNext and Oracle, including mass data uploads and system configuration.
- Assess and recommend local compensation adjustments and additional payments based on market practices and business needs.
- Support ad hoc compensation initiatives, including retention actions, market competitiveness reviews, and other business requests.
- Provide Total Remuneration support for M&A activities, including compensation benchmarking, data analysis, employee remuneration reviews, and integration recommendations.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Proven 4+ years of experience in compensation or total rewards, ideally in a multinational or complex organizational environment.
- Strong knowledge of compensation practices, market benchmarking, salary structures, and LATAM local remuneration practices.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret compensation data, assess market competitiveness, and translate insights into clear recommendations.
- Experience partnering with Finance, Talent Acquisition, HR, and business stakeholders on compensation-related decisions.
- Ability to develop and communicate compensation proposals for complex, niche, and senior-level positions.
- Strong attention to detail and a demonstrated commitment to data accuracy and integrity.
- Experience working with HR systems and compensation data, including data validation, mass uploads, and system configuration.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, effectively manage competing priorities, work independently, and navigate sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders.
- Proficiency in Excel and other data analysis tools; experience with Oracle, HiNext, or similar HR systems is a plus.
- Fluency in English and Spanish.
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We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
