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Airbus Aircraft

Executive Grading Specialist (f/m)

Hybrid

Toulouse, France

Freelance

02-12-2025

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Communication Data Analysis Workday Stakeholder Management Research Analytics and Reporting Organization Project Management Analytics Artificial Intelligence

Job Specifications

Job Description:

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for an Executive Grading Specialist (f/m) to join our Executive Reward team based in Toulouse, France.

How Airbus compensates and rewards employees is crucial. Airbus focuses on aligning its reward strategy to its business objectives in order to attract and retain the best talent available in the marketplace on the right job.

In this context, Airbus Reward Function defines policies and provides analysis as well as expert support so that the strategy is consistently applied throughout the Group. Within this organization, the Executive Reward team manages contracts, compensation and grading processes of Airbus Executives (Band III and above) all Divisions and world-wide.

In the team of the Head of Executive Reward, the Executive Grading Manager manages day-to-day activity within the team and supports the full range of Grading topics: methodology, job evaluations, analytics and reporting as well as adhoc projects.

Your working environment:

Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city in the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor activities!

How we care for you:

Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your challenges:

To lead and act as the guarantor of the internal job evaluation methodology for all populations at Airbus, coordinating through and supported by the Job Value Community of Practice (Airbus internal community)
Ensure the proper implementation of the grading methodologies for our Executive population, ensuring consistency across all Functions, Divisions and locations (Willis Tower Watson methodology, “Onion” methodology...):
Conduct job evaluations for new and existing Executive jobs and provide detailed outcomes for Executive Reward and Ho HRs final review and validation. Therefore, act as a trusted advisor on all matters related to the Executive job evaluation.
Establish and/or enforce and/or reinforce policies, procedures and guidelines for job grading in close collaboration with the Job Value Community of Practice (internal community of grading managers in all Divisions). It includes creating and/or maintaining documentation and guidance on the grading framework.
Lead and animate the Job Value Community of Practice (Consistency Executives / Non-Executives, Consistency cross Divisions / locations, best practice sharing, simplification including Airbus job catalogues), define and set a new governance model

In charge of Executive grading analytics and reporting:
Run the quarterly Executive Landscape reviews (e.g. for Commercial Aircraft) with TEM (Talent and Executive Management team) and the Senior HRBPs / Ho HRs
For quarterly reports, edit statistics and coordinate data consolidation across Divisions (e.g. Airbus Helicopters, Airbus Defence and Space)
Provide ad’hoc specific follow-up and data analysis on key strategic initiatives

Digital and Ad’hoc projects:
Act as the Workday Business Owner for the implementation of the grading of the position in Workday
Inject new ways of working to modernize the grading activity, leveraging Artificial Intelligence, G-Sites and any other digital tools
Serve as a key contributor to the strategic AI project “from grading to salary offer”
Provide expert grading support to critical HR projects (core countries and Regions), including internal reorganizations, Merger and Acquisitions implementations

Your boarding pass:

You have strong experience and knowledge in job evaluation and grading with expert knowledge of the Willis Tower Watson (WTW) grading methodology
You have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to advise, influence and build trustful relationships with Senior HRs and business leaders
You have excellent analytical and project management skills
You have a demonstrated experience in a large-scale, in

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