Compensation Benefits Manager

HAIL Partners is working with a European Private Equity firm who are seeking a Vice President, Compensation & Benefits to join their London team. The role leads the design, governance and delivery of the firm's reward and benefits framework across a multi-jurisdictional European footprint, combining strategic reward design with hands-on delivery to ensure the offering remains market-competitive and regulatory-compliant.

Responsibilities:

• Design and lead the firm's compensation and benefits strategy across all jurisdictions, ensuring alignment with talent, retention and pay philosophy
• Own the annual compensation review cycle, including salary review guidance and bonus pool allocation support, in partnership with Finance and senior leadership
• Lead multi-jurisdictional reward projects, including pension contribution reviews across several European markets, ensuring consistent governance and implementation
• Own the design, procurement and ongoing management of employee benefits programmes (pensions, healthcare, life assurance, wellbeing and family-building benefits)
• Manage relationships with benefits brokers, insurers and pension providers, running periodic market reviews and renewals
• Ensure compensation structures and processes comply with relevant remuneration codes across jurisdictions, partnering with Compliance, Risk, Legal and Tax
• Lead participation in market benchmarking surveys and provide data-driven recommendations on pay positioning, role levelling and total reward competitiveness
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and the wider HR team on reward matters, including compensation structuring for senior hires
• Line-manage and develop compensation and benefits team resource, driving process efficiency and digitisation of reward administration

Role Requirements:

• Substantial experience in compensation & benefits, reward or total reward roles, within financial services, ideally private equity
• Proven experience designing and managing multi-jurisdictional reward and benefits programmes across European markets
• Strong working knowledge of pensions across multiple European frameworks
• Experience operating within a regulated environment is highly desirable
• CIPD and/or a reward-specific qualification (e.g. GRP or CCP) is desirable
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear, practical recommendations
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, comfortable engaging with senior leadership and governance committees
• Strong project management skills, able to lead multi-workstream projects to tight deadlines