MICHAEL BENDIXEN

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Michael is a reward professional with broad international experience from large international and foundation owned companies. Michael aim is to ensure that reward strategy is clearly linked to the strategic ambition, and the design enables a clear value creation and is built on solid governance and operational excellence.

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Michael has experience with design and implementation of rewards strategies, ensuring pay transparency and pay equity is part of the core reward design as well as establishing pay setting and pay development processes that enables leaders to make the right compensation decision. Michael has also worked on designing and implementing various short- & long-term incentive schemes, job architecture, and the framework that ensures solid governance and operational excellence (policy, guidelines, systems, tools, training and communication).

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Michael has worked as a trusted advisor to both HR leaders, business leaders and executive management in several larger global organizations.

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Key competences

• Development and implementation of pay setting and pay development frameworks, such as salary ranges, benchmark and job architecture 

• Development and implementation of short- & long-term incentive schemes

• Design and implementation of policy and governance frameworks that ensures solid processes and operational excellence
   

2023-:   Senior Reward Advisor

Senior Reward Advisor providing advisory on executive reward, pay governance and general reward strategy design and deployment.

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2022-24:   Head of Global Rewards & HR Legal

2019-22:   Lead Global Rewards Partner​

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Designing, developing and implementing the overall reward strategy across Ramboll.  Ensuring an aligned approach to the global pay philosophy, pay governance and incentive programs, developing pay transparency and pay equity approach as well as ensuring trusted advisory to our leaders in Ramboll.

 

Key Accomplishments:​

• Leading the Global Rewards & HR Legal function, 
• Member of the Senior HR leadership team
• Secretary to Remuneration Committee
• Pay equity & transparency as an integrated part of the reward framework
• ESG as integrated part of incentive and performance framework
• Performance management alignment across the business
• Implementation and development of job architecture framework
• Alignment and implementation of a group wide STI programme
   

2016-19:   Global Compensation & Benefits Manager

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As part of the group function of rewards in Danske Bank, the overall responsibility was to support the development of the total reward strategy, as well as the general development, implementation and governance of group wide remuneration processes, such as annual salary and bonus process, as well as developing the systems to support these processes.

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Key Accomplishments:​

• Total Rewards Strategy (Implementing/Developing)
• Development and implementation of remuneration governance framework
• Driving the annual bonus & salary process (facilitating/developing)
• Responsible for the development and implementation of the reward management system (for bonus management and salary review)
• Responsible for management of the group wide short term bonus scheme
• Ensuring compliance to financial service regulation on incentives (FSA/EBA)
• Supporting RemCo and executive board on reporting
• Provisions and forecast models
   

2014-15:  Compensation and Benefit Specialist – Group Procurement

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Overall responsible for ensuring the operation in Group procurement (750 employees across 15+ global locations) as per Maersk Group Guidelines.

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Key Accomplishments:​

• Support on general compensation operation and governance

• Driving the annual local salary review process

• Driving the annual local bonus process

• Updating benchmark data and providing HR/rewards analytics

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2013-14:   HR Coordinator – Group Corporate Service Center

 

Responsible for providing specific HR support to our customers in Maersk Group Functions, Maersk Line, Group Procurement and Maersk Oil Maersk Business as well as being a center of excellence and ensuring process optimization of HR processes managed our function.

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Key Accomplishments:​

• Managing HR Help Desk Service for HR customers in Maersk

• Process Optimization via Lean (PEX)

• Mobility (inbound to Denmark)

• Legal Compliance of Services and Benefits

• Data Analytics
   

2003-10:   Copenhagen Business School

2007-10: Master’s Degree (M.Sc.) in Human Resource Management

2003-06: BSc in Economics and Business Administration (Philosophy)