Director of Total Rewards & Employees Relations - Mercari

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Director of Total Rewards & Employees Relations - Mercari

• Employment type: Permanent employee
• Working style: Flextime (no core hours)
• Location: Roppongi

Introduction

Circulating all value, expanding everyone's potential

“With limited Earth resources, what can we do to create a more prosperous society?” In 2013, the flea market app “Mercari” was born from the awareness of issues founder Shintaro Yamada developed during his trip around the world. We believe that by circulating all value, not limited to physical goods and money, we can help everyone realise what they want to do and increase the options for contributing to people and society.

Connecting people across the world through the power of technology, we will create a world where the potential of every person can be realised. For the direction the Mercari Group aims for, please see the Mercari Culture Doc.

Team Mission / Responsibilities

As part of the People Planning function, we design an environment where employees can take on challenges and deliver their maximum performance, embodying Mercari's four values through evaluation and compensation strategy, labour relations and employee experience across the whole company (including executives).

Working closely with management and each business HRBP, our mission is to support the sustainable growth of the entire Mercari Group by designing and operating data-driven evaluation and compensation systems that emphasise employee growth and fairness.

Furthermore, as Mercari drives its transformation into an AI-Native Company, you will also play an important role in creating new ways of working using technology, and compensation and evaluation systems aligned with how results are defined.

Through these initiatives, we aim for human capital management that maximises added value to the business and management results.

※For details on Mercari's mission and values, please see here

Specific responsibilities are as follows.

※This position welcomes candidates with experience and expertise in evaluation and compensation, labour relations, or both. We will flexibly design the scope of responsibility according to your experience and strengths.

Evaluation & Compensation (Evaluation & Compensation) area

• Design and operational direction of company-wide evaluation and compensation systems
• Design of HR systems
• Rebuilding of evaluation frameworks and skill definitions accompanying the transition to an AI-Native Company
• Design, introduction and operation of global-standard compensation models and policies (optimisation of base salary, short-term incentives and medium- to long-term incentives)
• Design, operation and support of Executive Compensation (including responding to the nomination and compensation committee)
• Collaboration with external consultants

Labour Relations & Employee Experience (Employee Relations) area

• Design and revision of employment regulations, responding to changes in working styles from the AI Native transition
• Handling labour issues and conducting harassment investigations
• Promoting and operating initiatives to improve employee experience (EX)
• Proactive initiative planning that accelerates organisational growth while managing legal risk

Common

• Collaboration and consensus-building with diverse stakeholders, including management, HRBPs and business leaders
• Management such as team member development and goal setting
  
  

Unique Challenges

• You can rebuild the 'evaluation and compensation' management foundation that supports the sustainable growth of the Mercari Group with your own hands. Beyond simple system operation, this is a position where you can lead company-wide HR system design linked to management and business strategy. You can rebuild the foundations of evaluation, compensation and labour relations with your own hands.
• Also, as part of the transformation into an AI-Native Company, you will work on an unprecedented challenge: updating the very definitions of 'results' and 'skills' and implementing new evaluation and compensation models using technology.
• Engaging diverse stakeholders such as management, HRBPs and business leaders, you will drive projects from planning through introduction and operation in a fast-paced environment with end-to-end ownership.
  
  

Essential Requirements

• You share the mission and values of Mercari
• Hands-on experience designing and operating evaluation and compensation systems or labour relations / ER initiatives in a business company (5+ years)
• Project management experience in designing and operating initiatives
• Experience leading a team or people management
• Strong communication skills for negotiating and building consensus with management and diverse stakeholders
  
  

Desirable Requirements

• Experience with evaluation and compensation systems at a global company
• Experience supporting a nomination and compensation committee
• Experience designing and operating Executive Compensation systems
• Experience designing employment regulations, investigating harassment and handling labour issues, or working directly with lawyers as an HRBP

Language skills

• Japanese: independent (CEFR - B2) required
• English: independent (CEFR - B2) required

※For details on the CEFR, please see here

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About the Selection Process

The Mercari Group places importance on empathy with and embodiment of the missions and values of the Mercari Group and each company. To promote the creation of organisations that maximise the total value members produce, we want to understand candidates' experience and skills more accurately.

Selection process

• Document screening
• Technical assessment: for engineering positions, a technical assessment via HackerRank or GitHub; for non-engineering positions, this depends on the position (may occur before or after interviews)
• Interviews: depending on the position, several interview rounds are required
• References: an online response format, requested before or after the final interview
• Offer: decided based on the final interview and reference content

　※For details, please see this page

Equal Opportunity in Selection

At Mercari, we aim for a society where individuals' potential is not prejudged by their background and everyone can freely obtain opportunities to create value. We believe the concept of 'Inclusion & Diversity' is indispensable for Mercari to realise its mission.

In recruitment too, we promise to eliminate all discrimination based on age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, physical ability, or other attributes, so that people from diverse backgrounds who empathise with Mercari's mission and values can join us.

For details, please see our I&D statement.

Please also review our privacy policy when applying.