Vice President, Total Rewards

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Job Description Summary:

The Vice President of Total Rewards provides strategic and operational leadership for executive and broad-based compensation, benefits and recognition programs worldwide. The VP is the creative thought leader who brings contemporary ideas and innovative approaches with the capacity to drive enterprise-wide understanding and engagement in the global Total Rewards philosophy and programs.

The Vice President Total Rewards is a member of the People Leadership Team and operates at a strategic level in collaboration with senior executives and at a tactical execution-oriented level to ensure successful program implementation.

This Vice President leads all facets of total rewards including general compensation, executive compensation, international compensation, sales/incentive compensation, equity programs, US and international benefit design and management, vendor selection and management, and communication programs supporting 3,000 global employee base and growing.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establishes the global Total Rewards strategy in conjunction with the SVP, Chief People Officer.
• Partners across the People Team with functional leaders, People Business Partners and other key stakeholders to identify Total Rewards opportunities.
• Ensures that compensation and benefits programs are fair, motivating, aligned with performance and leveraged effectively to enhance the employee experience.
• Serves as a thought leader in the Total Rewards area, proposing contemporary design ideas and providing consultative guidance to executive business leaders.
• Directs the design, implementation and maintenance of a competitive base compensation structure and analyzes pay practices to ensure equity and fairness.
• Prepares materials for the CPO and Board Compensation Committee as the internal expert on executive compensation matters, staying apprised of relevant trends.
• Ensures incentive program designs are aligned with a pay-for-performance philosophy and administered flawlessly.
• Directs the development of training and communication programs to ensure the management team understands the organization's pay-for-performance philosophy and colleagues understand how they are compensated.
• Creates processes to ensure that annual compensation and benefits spending is within budget.
• Ensures benefit programs are contemporary in their design, attractive to and valued by colleagues, cost effective, communicated effectively and compliant with all applicable regulations.
• Drives the adoption of a global benefits philosophy that effectively balances key principles with local customs, talent market competitiveness and costs in local markets.
• Leads due diligence efforts related to compensation & benefits.
• Leads harmonization efforts of legacy and newly acquired company’s compensation and benefits programs.
• Develops and maintains effective resources and methods to evaluate and …