Total Rewards Manager

Role overview

PGIM Ireland is seeking a collaborative, curious, and analytical professional to join the PGIM People Team as Manager, Compensation & Analytics within Total Rewards. This position offers exposure to compensation practices, HR data, and ways of working across multiple geographies, while supporting both established processes and new solutions aligned to PGIM’s business strategy.

The role is based in Letterkenny, County Donegal, with a hybrid arrangement of 2 days per week onsite. You will work with colleagues worldwide and will need flexibility to support team priorities, including extended hours when necessary.

What you will do

• Work with internal partners and clients to deliver compensation-related initiatives and solve people-related challenges for assigned areas.
• Build approaches for headcount reporting, compensation analytics, expense forecasting, and the year-end compensation cycle.
• Maintain compensation structures using benchmarking insights and help People Team partners with compensation advisory support.
• Collaborate with PGIM and Prudential Total Rewards teams, People Business Leaders, People Operations, and PGIM Finance to design, improve, and run Total Rewards processes, reporting, and forecasts.
• Handle ad hoc requests and provide day-to-day compensation consulting support to the wider People Team.

Key accountabilities

• Develop and manage a simplified process for headcount and compensation expense analytics, including accruals, modelling, and forecasting for investment professionals, sales staff, and corporate employees.
• Oversee year-end compensation activities for assigned PGIM groups, including salary decisions, short-term and long-term incentives, promotions, and performance-related actions.
• Support leaders on the impact of the EU Pay Transparency Directive and keep compensation structures aligned with regulatory requirements.
• Manage market data matching and job architecture work, ensuring data quality, consistency, and useful guidance on grade and pay structures.

What you bring

• A creative and inquisitive mindset with the ability to design better ways to solve compensation challenges and improve working methods.
• Strong analytical ability, close attention to detail, and the skill to turn data into insights that influence business decisions.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel capability, including VLOOKUP, SUMIF, nested formulas, Power Pivot tables, and charts.
• Exposure to Power BI, Visier, or similar analytics and visualization tools, with an interest in building further expertise.
• Ability to work with AI-enabled tools that support continued use of Microsoft Copilot.
• Strong prioritisation skills and the ability to handle several projects with different deadlines at once.
• Excellent relationship-building, influencing, interpersonal, and collaboration skills.
• High ownership, strong work ethic, and the ability to perform in a fast-moving, high-volume environment while managing multiple priorities.
• Experience using Aon and/or WTW benchmarking data.
• 6 to 8 years of experience in HR compensation roles.
• Bachelor’s degree.

Preferred background

• Experience in financial services, asset management, or global organisations.
• Exposure to position management tools and systems.
• Experience with Workday and compensation management platforms.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Access and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Equal opportunity and checks

PGIM Ireland is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, or membership of the traveller community. Hiring decisions are made on merit.

Any employment offer will depend on satisfactory references. Background checks will be completed for all candidates who receive an offer.