Danish Crown is reshaping its global People & Culture setup to create a unified, future-ready organization. Join Danish Crown and play a key role in strengthening service, boosting performance, and driving smarter, standardized ways of working across the value chain and the people life cycle.
Area of Responsibility
Danish Crown is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Global Process Owner (GPO) for Reward & Benefits to build and drive the strategy, governance, and continuous improvement of Danish Crown’s global reward frameworks and benefit processes. In this critical role, you will ensure that Danish Crown’s compensation and benefits practices are competitive, compliant, scalable, and aligned with Danish Crown’s global People & Culture strategy.
In the newly established role as Global Process Owner at Danish Crown, you will be part of the global People & Culture organization, acting as the single point of accountability for defining global reward processes, harmonizing standards across markets, and ensuring Danish Crown delivers a consistent and high-quality data and employee experience throughout the employee lifecycle.
Working closely with the head of Global Rewards, you will be part of a team of Global Process Owners where you will build strong partnerships with colleagues across regional P&C Operations, IT, P&C Shared Services, the Global Solution Adoption team, and senior business stakeholders.
More specifically, you will:
- Serve as the global owner for Reward & Benefits processes, ensuring cross-functional end-to-end process alignment for compensation, benefits, job architecture, and reward cycles according to the Total Rewards direction.
- Establish and lead the community for process governance, controls, and decision-making principles.
- Partner with senior leadership, HR Business Partners, P&C Operations, Finance, and Legal functions to influence and align on the total reward direction for Danish Crown.
- Lead process design in global improvement initiatives and transformation projects that focus on simplification, automation, and digitalization to optimize efficiency, clarity, and quality.
- Define system requirements in collaboration with HR IT Teams (e.g., SAP SuccessFactors).
- Drive data integrity, data availability, and reporting standards for Reward & Benefit processes.
- Support user acceptance testing and change impact assessments for technology releases.
- Define and maintain global KPIs and dashboards to measure process compliance, performance, and employee experience outcomes.
- Monitor process performance, identifying trends and improvement opportunities.
- Prepare reports and insights for leadership, recommending strategic actions.
- Ensure maintenance and regular updates of global process documentation, including process maps and work instructions.
Who Are You?
You have a proven track record of working with Reward, Compensation and Benefits processes and concepts in a global context.
Communication and stakeholder engagement come naturally to you, and with a strong change management approach and Agile mindset, you can:
- Drive standardization of highly fragmented reward processes based on thorough analysis, planning, and change management.
- Present key value drivers for business cases and optimizations based on the main findings from stakeholders.
- Define and implement global process standards, policies, and KPIs to ensure consistency across all regions.
- Collaborate with local HR functions, Shared Service Center, and the wider HR and IT community to align processes with business needs.
- Identify opportunities for simplification, automation, and standardization using Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies.
You Have:
- 5+ years of experience in Rewards, Compensation & Benefits, HR Transformation, or related fields.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills combined with the ability to drive for standardizations in a complex setting.
- An analytical, creative, and solution-oriented mindset, with strong attention to detail and openness to innovation and synergies.
- Ability to balance global standards with local business and regulatory requirements.
- Experience in managing and leading IT and change/improvement projects.
- A flair for logical thinking and finding synergies across processes.
The position can be operated by Danish Crown's Headquarters in Randers or Danish Crown's local offices in Copenhagen (located near Tivoli) or Krakow, Poland.
Why join Danish Crown?
Danish Crown isn't just a big player in the food industry; Danish Crown is also a workplace with top-notch facilities in Danish Crown's new headquarters that provides an inspiring environment for collaboration and creativity. From Danish Crown's professional kitchen facilities to Danish Crown's gym, padel courts, and outstanding canteen, it's a place where you'll flourish professionally and personally. Danish Crown is ambitious and has plenty of tasks ahead of Danish Crown, but that doesn't stop Danish Crown from having a continuous focus on employee well-being.
Danish Crown offers an attractive compensation and benefits package, pension, and health insurance, etc.
So, if you’re ready to embrace new challenges, inspire change, and make an impact, this is the role for you.
Appetite for more?
To learn more, please contact Mette Nielsen, Director, People Services & Solutions within Group People & Culture, mobile +45 30 34 69 89.
Danish Crown reviews applications on an ongoing basis and will close the search once the right candidate has been identified.
Danish Crown looks forward to hearing from you!
Danish Crown encourages all qualified candidates — regardless of gender identity, age, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation or background — to apply. What matters is your talent, leadership, and ability to drive impact.
