The Total Rewards Associate Manager manages the delivery of compensation and benefits programs for Portugal. The role partners closely with HR, Finance, Legal, Payroll, and external vendors to ensure programs are compliant within the Global Guidelines and well-communicated.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate enterprise Total Rewards strategy into Portugal execution plans and improvement roadmaps.

• Provide market intelligence (surveys, benchmarks, trends) to inform salary structures, incentive designs, benefits portfolio, recognition, and wellbeing programs.

• Draft and recommend updates to guidelines, frameworks, and toolkits (e.g., salary ranges, job architecture, eligibility).

• Conduct scenario modeling and cost/impact analyses to support policy refinements and annual budget planning.

• Own the endtoend annual compensation cycle for the assigned scope  (promotions, adjustments) including tools readiness, data accuracy, manager enablement, and controls.

• Administer and optimize benefits programs (medical, life, disability, retirement, flexible benefits, wellbeing), ensuring service quality and employee experience.

• Coordinate the job evaluation and market pricing.

• Maintain and operationalize policies and guidelines; ensure alignment with equal pay, human rights, tax, and local labor legislation.

• Prepare for audits, ensure documentation and process controls are current, and remediate findings.

• Support expatriate/transfer cases.

• Build and maintain compensation and benefits dashboards; deliver clear insights to HR/Business leaders

• Serve as primary TR point of contact in the assigned scope; resolve escalations and guide exception handling.

• Plan and deliver communications and enablement (guides, FAQs, manager briefings) that are clear, compliant, and employee friendly.

• Partner with Talent to embed marketbased ranges and TR guidance into offers, support offer reviews for critical hires.

• Establish standard work, SOPs, and quality controls, drive process simplification and automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Total Rewards/Compensation & Benefits.

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business/Finance, or related field.

• Solid knowledge of compensation structures, salary ranges, incentives, and benefits plan administration. Knowledge of regional labor law and benefits market practices.

• Experience with pay equity diagnostics, recognition/wellbeing program

• Advanced Excel .

• Fluent in English and Portuguese (written and verbal).

• Spanish (nice to have).

• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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