Director of C&B and Payroll – People Systems

At QIMA , we are on a mission to offer our clients smart solutions to make products you can trust. Operating in over 100 countries, we serve the consumer products, food, and life sciences industries and help more than 30,000 brands, retailers, manufacturers, and growers achieve quality excellence. We combine on-the-ground expertise with digital solutions that bring accuracy, transparency and intelligence for quality and compliance data. What sets us apart is our unique culture. Our 6,000 Qimates live and make decisions every day by our QIMA Values. With client passion, integrity, and a commitment to making things simple, we disrupted the Testing, Inspection, and Certification industry. Are you ready to hop on this exciting ride with us and help us achieve our mission? The Director, People Systems & Total Rewards leads one of QIMA's three HR Centers of Excellence. This role owns three interconnected domains: the global HRIS platform (currently SAP SuccessFactors), end-to-end payroll operations across 20–30 countries and ~50 entities, and the Group's total rewards strategy. It is both a "run" and "build" role — ensuring operational excellence today while building the Shared Services infrastructure for tomorrow. The role currently manages a small team (2–3 people) with a clear growth mandate as Payroll and HR Data Shared Services are established. Key Responsibilities HRIS & HR Analytics Own the global HRIS roadmap and governance, ensuring the HRIS is configured, maintained, and continuously optimized as QIMA's system of record for all People data. Ensure data integrity processes are properly setup and strictly followed, to enable automation of data-based processes with AI Agents. Build HR data reporting capabilities to feed People analytics for the CPO and executive team. Global Payroll & Rewards Consolidate, structure and oversee end-to-end payroll operations across 20–30 countries and approximately 60 legal entities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in all jurisdictions, with a view to produce accurate payroll cost reporting, headcount analytics, and workforce cost modelling with Finance. Build and scale a Payroll Shared Services function, defining processes, controls, and team structure to support QIMA's growth. Own the annual performance and salary review cycle: design methodology, calibrate market data, advise HR Business Partners and business leaders, and manage the system module. Team & Stakeholder Leadership Lead, coach, and grow a direct reporting team currently of 2–3 (Analyst, HRIS Dev, Payroll specialist), with a roadmap to build and scale Shared Services teams. Act as the primary interface between HR and Finance on all workforce cost and compensation topics. Be the contact point for all HR Business Partners, and more generally business stakeholders, to ensure playbooks and processes are applied consistently and competitively across all regions. Experience & Background About 5-10 years of experience spanning at least two of the three domains: HRIS, Global Payroll, and Compensation & Benefits. Hands-on experience with SAP SuccessFactors or similar enterprise HRIS. Proven track record managing multi-country HR processes in a complex, multi-entity international environment. Experience designing or running a global annual compensation review cycle and job architecture framework. Experience building or scaling a Shared Services function is a strong plus. Skills & Competencies Strong analytical and data skills; comfortable with HR data modelling, reporting, and working with Snowflake/BI tools. Proven experience embedding AI tools and automation. Process-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset; able to design scalable, audit-proof processes in a decentralized environment. Commercially minded; able to frame Total Rewards decisions in the context of business performance and talent competitiveness. Fluent in English (mandatory); additional languages are a plus. Rigorous, detail-oriented, and able to manage competing priorities across three distinct domains simultaneously. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.