The Regional Performance & Recognition Manager is responsible for developing and driving the Compensation & Benefits strategy across the APAC region, ensuring alignment with overall business and talent priorities.
This role acts as a regional subject matter expert and governance lead, overseeing the design and effectiveness of compensation and benefits practices across all OpCos.
Key Responsibilities and Specific Duties
1. Compensation Strategy & Regional Governance
- Develop and drive the regional compensation strategy and frameworks across APAC, ensuring alignment with business and talent priorities.
- Establish and oversee job architecture, grading frameworks, and compensation philosophies, ensuring consistency across OpCos.
- Monitor and benchmark compensation practices across OpCos, identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for improvement.
- Lead key regional cycles such as annual compensation review, merit increases, and incentive planning, ensuring alignment with regional guidelines while allowing appropriate local flexibility.
- Provide strategic guidance and challenge to HR leaders and business stakeholders on compensation decisions, ensuring internal equity and external competitiveness.
2. Strategic Rewards for Key Talent & Regional Roles
- · Develop and drive targeted C&B strategies for key talents, critical roles, and regional positions, ensuring strong attraction, retention, and engagement.· Design differentiated reward approaches, including incentives, retention mechanisms, and long-term reward elements, aligned with business priorities.
- · Ensure alignment and fairness in reward practices for regional or cross-border roles, balancing global consistency and local market competitiveness.
- · Partner with HR and business leaders to support succession planning, leadership pipeline development, and talent retention strategies through reward design.
3. Benefits Strategy & Optimisation
- Define the regional benefits strategy and guiding principles, balancing competitiveness, cost efficiency, and employee value proposition.
- Review and assess benefits practices across OpCos, identifying harmonisation or optimisation opportunities.
- Evaluate utilisation, cost effectiveness, and employee experience, and propose data-driven enhancements.
- Provide advisory support to OpCos on benefits design, vendor strategy, and renewal decisions.
4. Performance & Recognition Framework
- Develop and evolve regional performance management and recognition frameworks, aligned with organisational strategy and culture.
- Review OpCo practices and identify inconsistencies, gaps, and areas for improvement.
- Strengthen pay-for-performance linkage, differentiation, and recognition mechanisms across the region.
- Promote a performance-driven and meritocratic culture through reward and recognition design.
5. Regional Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Establish governance standards and ensure C&B practices are aligned with regional frameworks while complying with local regulations.
- Partner with legal and external advisors to mitigate risks related to compensation, benefits, and reward structures.
- Maintain framework documentation and ensure audit readiness and policy governance.
6. Analytics, Insights & Decision Support
- Drive regional analytics and insights across compensation, benefits, and performance practices.
- Develop dashboards to compare OpCo practices and identify actionable improvement areas.
- Provide forward-looking insights, cost modelling, and scenario analysis to support strategic decision-making.
7. Regional Advisory & Business Partnership
- Act as a strategic advisor and challenger to OpCo HR teams and business leaders.
- Support organisation design, workforce strategy, and transformation initiatives from a reward perspective.
- Identify systemic issues across OpCos and drive targeted interventions and improvements.
8. Vendor & Stakeholder Management
- Provide oversight on key vendors across OpCos (e.g., market survey providers, insurers, consultants).
- Align with global Total Rewards teams to ensure consistency with global frameworks while reflecting regional needs.
Knowledge and Skills Requirements
Qualification & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.
- Minimum 7-10 years of experience in Compensation & Benefits, including at least 3 years in a regional or multi-country capacity.
- Proven experience in multinational organisations, with exposure to diverse markets and regulatory environments.
- Experience in designing or evolving reward frameworks (e.g., job architecture, grading, performance-linked rewards) is strongly preferred.
Skills & Competencies:
- Strong expertise in compensation strategy, job evaluation, and market benchmarking, including familiarity with methodologies such as Mercer, WTW, or Hay.
- Solid understanding of APAC regional benefits design, statutory requirements, and governance frameworks.
- Proven ability to translate data and market insights into actionable recommendations and strategies.
- Strong analytical capability, with proficiency in Excel and HR systems (e.g., Workday, SuccessFactors).
- Ability to navigate complexity across multiple markets and balance global consistency with local realities.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, challenge, and guide senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated capability in supporting talent strategy, including reward differentiation for key talent and critical roles.
Personal Attributes :
- Highly analytical, with a data-driven and insight-led approach to decision making
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to link reward strategies to business outcomes
- High level of integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality
- Strong cultural awareness and the ability to operate effectively across diverse markets and organisational contexts
- Proactive and solution-oriented, with the ability to identify issues, challenge the status quo, and drive improvements
- Resilient and adaptable, comfortable working in ambiguous and evolving environments
Pay: RM10,000.00 - RM15,000.00 per month
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Maternity leave
- Opportunities for promotion
- Parental leave
- Professional development
- Vision insurance
- Work from home
Work Location: In person