Raquel Campos Rueda

Global Total Rewards executive with two decades leading compensation, benefits, and organizational design strategy across complex, multinational businesses. Specializes in building reward functions and governance frameworks from the ground up — most recently establishing Hexagon I&G's Total Rewards operating model, job architecture, and merit and incentive governance where none previously existed. Trusted advisor to Chief People Officers and executive leadership on pay strategy, executive compensation, and regulatory compliance across Europe and globally.

Combines deep technical grounding (Mercer IPE, WorldatWork GRP) with the governance, stakeholder, and vendor management skills required to operate at C-1 and board level.

Global Total Rewards Director - Hexagon (I&G — Infrastructure & Geospatial) - Barcelona, Spain

(2025-12)

• Built the Total Rewards function at Hexagon I&G from the ground up, establishing career levels, job grades, and salary structures where none previously existed.
• Leading the global job architecture and levelling program applying Mercer IPE methodology across the division's business lines.
• Architected the division's EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance program across 14+ EU countries, including a CEO-facing briefing deck, works council landscape mapping, and country-by-country transposition governance.
• Designed and stood up merit increase and out-of-cycle governance frameworks — RACI models, dual approval thresholds, and divisional budget governance.
• Led executive compensation benchmarking for the C-1 leadership team using Mercer Comptryx, covering external competitiveness, internal equity, and pay gap analysis.
• Directing the STI/LTI redesign for the 2027 cycle in partnership with different vendors, following a governance and metrics postmortem of the prior cycle.
• Advisory lead for SAP SuccessFactors (Hexagon ONE) compensation configuration across ~45 countries and ~5,400 employees, operating within a global GPO/GPP/RPP/LPP matrix.

Global Total Rewards & People Analytics Head - SIMON - Barcelona area, Spain

(2015-01 - 2025-12)

• Designed and implemented the group's global compensation policy, anchoring reward decisions on internal pay equity and external market competitiveness to attract and retain top talent.
• Designed the group's salary structure and led the annual, group-wide salary review process.
• Designed and managed the group's short- and long-term incentive plans (STI/LTI) and employee benefits programs.
• Defined, implemented, and maintained the group's organizational design system and job evaluation (job grading) framework.
• Defined and managed international mobility policy for expatriate and relocated employees.
• Designed and managed the group's Balanced Scorecard (CMI), headcount, and labour cost reporting.
• Coordinated and co-designed the corporate engagement survey; led implementation and ongoing management of the group's HCM platform (SuccessFactors).
• Contributed actively to the Employer Branding project and led design, development, and coordination of the Flexible Working and Wellbeing policy.
• Led multiple reward and organizational integration projects across companies joining the group through M&A.

Compensation & Benefits Corporate Senior Technician - Grifols - Parets del Vallès, Spain

(2011-02 - 2015-01)

• Analysed fixed pay, variable pay, and benefits nationally and internationally across all group companies.
• Designed, developed, and supervised the group's compensation and benefits policy.
• Ran job evaluations in line with Chemical Industry General Agreement (Convenio General de Industria Química) requirements.
• Defined, implemented, consolidated, and maintained the group's organizational design system, and maintained all group org charts to ensure consistency.
• Defined, implemented, structured, and maintained the group's job description system.
• Managed the full expatriate and repatriate lifecycle end-to-end.
• Led organizational design projects supporting the integration of newly acquired group companies.

Lead Consultant - Mercer

(2007-05 - 2011-02)

• Analysed fixed pay, variable pay, and benefits across markets and sectors; designed expatriation policies and salary band structures for clients.
• Ran compensation surveys and presented findings to General Management and HR leadership.

HR Consultant - Hospital Clínic de Barcelona

(2004-12 - 2007-05)

• Carried out job analysis and design, and built performance evaluation systems across recruitment, mobility, and occupational health.
• Ran an extraordinary staffing and internal transfer process covering 100+ positions, including competency-based interviews and psychometric testing.

Master's - HR Management in Organizations - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2004 - 2006)

BA - Economics - Universitat de Barcelona (1999 - 2004)