Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. Amazon's evolution from website to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.

We are looking for an exceptional Compensation Consultant to proactively partner with client-facing HR colleagues and local business line management to identify and address compensation issues, and evangelize Amazon’s total compensation philosophy and strategy to the clients in the assigned countries. The role will focus on providing compensation consultation to Retail, and Technology business lines and activities to design, develop, implement and measure results of compensation policies and programs with compliance understanding. The position will leverage central practices to foster and drive compensation programs for an alignment with global and regional strategies and business requirements while understanding and advocating for locally relevant market conditions and practices. The successful candidate should be results oriented and flexible with the ability to manage multiple projects in a demanding, fast-paced environment.

This role will support the EU Ops org, and have responsibility for compensation across EU. This is a diverse and engaging stakeholder group.

Although the preferred location for this role is London, it can be based out of Luxemburg and Munich as well.

Key job responsibilities
- Act as primary point of contact and Compensation expert for assigned business lines and countries
- Perform regular, thorough and deep technical analysis on effectiveness and competitiveness of existing compensation programs
- Effectively partner with HR colleagues and business clients to manage and consult on compensation-related issues
- Provide guidance to the business and develop creative solutions on a variety of total compensation issues including the setting of appropriate pay levels, base pay, annual incentive pay and stock compensation
- Perform ad hoc analysis for costing, program effectiveness and trend purposes (using excel and other tools available to us)
- Identify, select and participate in compensation surveys to analyse the company’s competitive market position for each in-country location
- Partner with the global compensation and benefit teams on C&B issues, and work on a variety of special compensation and benefits projects as needed
- Participate in C&B projects that include analysis, market benchmarking, implementation and communication
- Create and deliver compensation training to HR and management teams
- Ensure company compliance with laws governing compensation and benefits practices
- Work to gain alignment with different constituencies and represent a common point of view across multiple stakeholders