Senior Rewards Specialist – (Fixed Term Contract, 12 Months)

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

The Senior Rewards Specialist (Fixed Term Contract, 12 Months) will support and help lead the design, governance and delivery of Arcadis APM reward activities, ensuring alignment to Arcadis’ global reward framework, pay transparency objectives, and transition plans. 

Role accountabilities:

Reward Strategy & Design

• Support the design and implementation of reward structures (fixed pay, STI, LTI, benefits) aligned to global reward philosophy and market benchmarks.
• Contribute to harmonisation of reward practices across APM and Arcadis, ensuring consistency and fairness. 

APM Reward Transition & Integration

• Play a key role in the APM Reward Transition (2026–2027), supporting standardisation of legacy terms and alignment to the future operating model. 
• Support job evaluation, job levelling and mapping activities to enable accurate reward comparisons and integration decisions. 

Reward Governance & Compliance

• Ensure reward decisions are in line with global policy, salary bands, and governance frameworks.
• Strengthen controls, documentation and audit readiness to mitigate compliance and employee relations risks. 

Reward Delivery & Operations

• Design and deliver comprehensive reward educational principles, enable the required cultural , change, and help align APM practices with Arcadis Group People and Reward standards, particularly around pay transparency, governance and decision making.
• Provide guidance to People Business Partners and business leaders on reward decisions and pay positioning.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner closely with People Business Partners, Finance, and business leadership to drive consistent awareness and application of reward practices. 

• Act as a trusted advisor on sensitive reward matters including offers, retention, and structural changes. 

  Key Outcomes: 

• Consistent and policy-aligned reward decisions across relevant employee population
• Progress against reward harmonisation and transition milestones
• Improved pay transparency readiness and governance maturity
• Strong stakeholder confidence in reward advice and decisions

Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven experience in compensation & benefits / reward (preferably in a global or matrixed environment)
• Strong understanding of job evaluation, pay benchmarking, and incentive design
• Experience supporting transformation, M&A, or reward harmonisation initiatives
• Analytical mindset with ability to translate data into clear recommendations
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing capability

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.