Compensation Specialist (f/m/x) EMEA

Sysmex is shaping the future of healthcare diagnostics with innovation and passion. In our new, modern headquarters in Hamburg, we offer a collaborative and inspiring work environment designed for creativity and growth. As part of a global team, you will contribute to improving patients’ healthcare journeys every day. Join us and experience a workplace that combines cutting-edge technology with a culture of openness and development and live our mission every day: “Together for a better healthcare journey.”

Your Role

What if you could shape fair, transparent, and competitive compensation across EMEA? As a Compensation Specialist (f/m/x) EMEA, you will take ownership of key compensation topics, advise stakeholders, and drive projects that shape our compensation framework.

You will combine compensation expertise with analytical skills to deliver consistent, competitive, and future-oriented compensation practices across the region. Your key responsibilities include:

• Driving pay transparency topics, including gender pay analysis and reporting
• Defining and maintaining salary structures and pay bands
• Conducting job evaluations, market analysis, and salary surveys
• Supporting and driving the annual compensation cycle across EMEA
• Reviewing compensation changes and providing data-driven recommendations
• Leading end-to-end compensation projects
• Advising affiliates and senior stakeholders, including regional leadership
• Contributing to the Total Rewards agenda, with a strong focus on compensation
• Working with SAP and relevant compensation tools and data sources, including Mercer
• Occasional travel within EMEA, depending on business needs

Your Profile

You are a Compensation expert who takes ownership and gets things moving? You enjoy working independently, navigating complex topics, and engaging confidently with senior stakeholders? If this sounds like you, you could be a great fit for this role. To be successful in this role, you ideally bring the following qualifications and strengths:

• Relevant academic or professional qualification combined with 2–5+ years of hands-on Compensation experience, ideally in an international or EMEA environment
• Strong expertise across core Compensation processes, including job evaluation, salary structures, pay bands, market pricing, benchmarking, and the annual compensation cycle
• Solid understanding of pay transparency and gender pay topics, with the ability to translate requirements into practical solutions
• Proven experience in leading projects end-to-end, from defining objectives and planning through implementation and stakeholder communication
• A highly proactive and self-driven mindset, with the ability to take ownership of topics and move them forward with minimal guidance
• Strong analytical and data-driven skills, combined with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and senior stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to advise and challenge senior leaders and regional stakeholders
• Strong SAP knowledge and experience working with compensation systems and data; hands-on experience with Mercer surveys, methodologies, and tools is a strong advantage
• Fluent English is required; The preferred location is our EU headquarters in Hamburg, but other locations within the EMEA region may also be considered

Our Benefits

• Culture & cooperation: An appreciative work environment, open corporate culture, flat hierarchies and an inclusive and caring atmosphere. Working in an innovative and international environment with a broad learning and development landscape in our EMEA Campus, after-work events for internal networking.

• Work-life balance: Flexible working through flextime and a hybrid working model (60% mobile working, 40% on-site), 30 days annual leave.

• Additional benefits: Attractive compensation package including Christmas and vacation pay, childcare allowance, capital-forming benefits, subsidy for company pension scheme, corporate benefits, relocation assistance, subsidised lunch in our canteen.

• Health & wellbeing: Subsidized EGYM Wellpass with access to 13,500 studios, plus in-house gym, various sports courses, massages, company medical and psychological care, workplace glasses, and general health management.

• Mobility: Subsidy for the public transport „Deutschlandticket“, free parking, bike leasing via JobRad.

• Social Responsibility: Various opportunities to get involved in different sustainability and charity initiatives, climate friendly and respectful use of resources

Did we spark your interest? Then we look forward to receiving your application with salary requirements and the earliest possible starting date.

Do you have questions?

Lèa Sanft

jobs@sysmex-europe.com

Reference No.: #1493

Sysmex Europe SE, Deelböge 19 D, 22297 Hamburg