The Total Rewards Director key responsibility is for shaping the total rewards agenda across the Americas region, providing leadership, guidance, and advice on all aspects of reward including base pay, variable pay, equity plans and employee benefit programs.
Remote based - Southeast or Central US Some occasional travel to Canada and LATAM
Core Responsibilities:
- Work closely with HR business partners, talent acquisition and senior business leaders across the Americas region to develop and deliver compelling reward initiatives and market competitive benefit offerings which support the regional people strategy and align to overall business goals.
- Monitor and assess the regulatory environment and pro-actively seek out best practice reward and compensation solutions; influencing and implementing reward programs and initiatives which align, and drive forward, global priorities in areas such as DEI.
- Lead on a diverse portfolio of local, regional, and global reward projects and initiatives from technical design through to implementation and successful roll out.
- Develop and deliver compelling and engaging reward communications, delivering an enhanced employee experience with greater pay transparency and clear pay explainability at its core.
- Manage and build relationships with key external consultants, advisors and vendors across the region ensuring the right level of support is being delivered and all contractual arrangements are being fulfilled.
- Work collaboratively with HRBPs and business leaders across the region to ensure effective evaluation of roles in line with the organization’s skills-based job architecture.
- Provide advice and guidance on organizational restructures across the region from a job architecture, pay equity and reward perspective.
Expected Experience and Qualifications:
- Substantial experience in Remuneration & Benefits in a large global company with experience leading teams and delivering reward initiatives across both NA and Latin America.
- Well-developed knowledge of the key principles of remuneration & benefits design and implementation in a complex matrix environment.
- Good commercial understanding of the business environment to define reward solutions which are in line with organizational goals.
- Experience in delivering global reward and wider people projects within desired cost, time, and quality parameters.
- Excellent relationship building skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience of working with a variety of HRIS/Compensation management systems (preferably Workday)
- Proven experience and expertise in developing and delivering sales incentive programs.
- Experience in managing a broad range of benefit plans, including private medical and pension schemes, across multiple geographies.
- High level expertise in the use of Hay Job Evaluation and experience of undertaking external market benchmarking activities across multiple geographies.
- Experienced leader as this role has a team of 5
Other:
- Bachelor’s Degree in HR or other related subject required, or associate degree with significant related experience (over 15 years)
- Background as a total rewards business partner in an international or global organization
- A background in manufacturing, supply chain, or logistics helpful; but not required; supporting at least a population of 5K or more.
- CCP or other related specialty certification are desired
