Operating in over 100 countries, we serve the consumer products, food, and life sciences industries and help more than 30,000 brands, retailers, manufacturers, and growers achieve quality excellence. We combine on-the-ground expertise with digital solutions that bring accuracy, transparency and intelligence for quality and compliance data. With client passion, integrity, and a commitment to making things simple, we disrupted the Testing, Inspection, and Certification industry.

The Director, People Systems & Total Rewards leads one of QIMA's three HR Centers of Excellence.

This role owns three interconnected domains: the global HRIS platform (currently SAP SuccessFactors), end-to-end payroll operations across 20–30 countries and ~50 entities, and the Group's total rewards strategy. The role currently manages a small team (2–3 people) with a clear growth mandate as Payroll and HR Data Shared Services are established. HRIS & HR Analytics Own the global HRIS roadmap and governance, ensuring the HRIS is configured, maintained, and continuously optimized as QIMA's system of record for all People data.

Ensure data integrity processes are properly setup and strictly followed, to enable automation of data-based processes with AI Agents. Build HR data reporting capabilities to feed People analytics for the CPO and executive team.

Integral

Payroll & Rewards Consolidate,



structure and oversee end-to-end payroll operations across 20–30 countries and approximately 60 legal entities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in all jurisdictions, with a view to produce accurate payroll cost reporting, headcount analytics, and workforce cost modelling with Finance.

Own the annual performance and salary review cycle: design methodology, calibrate market data, advise HR Business Partners and business leaders, and manage the system module. Act as the primary interface between HR and Finance on all workforce cost and compensation topics. Be the contact point for all HR Business Partners, and more generally business stakeholders, to ensure playbooks and processes are applied consistently and competitively across all regions.

HRIS, Global Payroll, and Compensation & Benefits. Hands-on experience with SAP SuccessFactors or similar enterprise HRIS. Proven track record managing multi-country HR processes in a complex, multi-entity international environment.

Experience designing or running a global annual compensation review cycle and job architecture framework. Strong analytical and data skills; comfortable with HR data modelling, reporting, and working with Snowflake/BI tools. able to frame Total Rewards decisions in the context of business performance and talent competitiveness. Fluent in English (mandatory);

📌 Director of C&B and Payroll - People Systems (Madrid)
🏢 QIMA
📍 Madrid