About Us
Let’s create a more sociable future together
At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you!
About the Role
- Love what you do and leave your mark
- Support business leaders and people partners in this dynamic role
- Be based in either Melbourne or Sydney
As a Senior Specialist - Performance & Reward Partnering, a pivotal position within our Performance & Reward stream, you will deliver expert remuneration consulting and portfolio support across dedicated business units and corporate teams.
Acting as a trusted advisor to People Partners and line managers, you will play a leading role in executing cyclical performance and reward reviews, role benchmarking, and variable incentive plan management.
You will ensure that our remuneration practices remain competitive, equitable, and executed in alignment with internal frameworks and regulatory standards.
Sound good? Read on.
Here's a snapshot of the responsibilities:
- Provide trusted guidance, advisory support, and subject matter expertise to People Partners and business leaders regarding day-to-day performance and reward queries.
- Play an active, leading role in front-facing cyclical activities for annual salary reviews, assisting with leader upskilling, delivering learning materials, and managing exceptions and corrections.
- Execute complex role benchmarking and job evaluations using established methodologies (such as Hays or Korn Ferry) to support organisational design, internal equity, and talent offers.
- Manage and govern localised variable reward plans and Short-Term Incentive Plans, ensuring accurate performance calculations and alignment with corporate framework metrics.
- Utilise data and analytics to make practical recommendations on merit matrix applications and salary distribution.
- Review Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) analytics and pay equity insights at a business unit level to proactively address remuneration anomalies.
- Partner with Employee Relations and legal specialists to ensure localised salary bands and offer structures comply with relevant modern awards, enterprise agreements, and Australian legislation.
- Contribute operational expertise to strategic initiatives, assisting with the business-unit deployment of the new Job Family Architecture and job-based salary ranges.
- Collaborate with the Performance & Reward Solutions team on system readiness testing, data governance, and responding to Tier 2 remuneration escalations.
- Maintain and update reward knowledge articles and policies on the People Portal to build leadership capability.
What do we need from you
Now let’s talk about you:
- You bring a minimum of 4+ years of experience within a specialised corporate Reward or Compensation Centre of Excellence.
- Demonstrated success providing timely, practical performance and reward advice to business leaders.
- Experience supporting complex retail, hospitality, or FMCG business units operating under mixed enterprise agreements.
- Relevant tertiary degree qualifications in HR, Business/Commerce, or a related field.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Excel or Google Sheets (including lookups, formulas, pivot tables, and data modeling), backed by in-depth reporting and analytical abilities using large data sets.
- Strong understanding of reward frameworks, job evaluation methodologies (e.g., Hays or Korn Ferry), and external market data principles.
- Familiarity with enterprise HRIS platforms such as SAP SuccessFactors is required.
- Confident and professional communication skills to translate complex remuneration concepts into clear solutions for non-technical managers and stakeholders.
- High attention to detail, strict compliance adherence, and uncompromising discretion handling sensitive data.
- Prior experience assisting with the rollout or pilot of major structural reward changes (such as a new Job Family Architecture), is desirable.
- Hands-on involvement with system configuration and testing in SAP SuccessFactors, is desirable.
- Experience contributing to enterprise incentive scheme reviews is desirable.
The benefits are good too!
- An exclusive discount card for our ALH Hotels pubs & accommodation, BWS, Dan Murphy’s and other Endeavour Group brands. Through our partnership with Woolworths, you'll also enjoy discounts at Woolies supermarkets and BIG W
- As a valued member of the team, your health and wellbeing is our top priority. You will have access to a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
- Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big
- Find out more about our range of benefits and discounts here
At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.
What's in it for you?
We are together creators
With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.
We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.
You can learn more about working with us at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.
Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
