Manager, Total Rewards

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the daily execution of worldwide compensation and benefits programs.

• Lead, mentor, and enhance a small Total Rewards team.

• Create and manage job architecture, which includes job families, career paths, levels, and titles.

• Direct job mapping, leveling, and calibration in collaboration with HR and business leaders.

• Manage market pricing and benchmarking, encompassing survey participation, job matching, market analysis, and the development of salary structures.

• Assist in formulating and implementing compensation philosophy, market positioning, and geographic pay strategies.

• Establish governance for offers, promotions, job transitions, market adjustments, and compensation exceptions.

• Guide the annual merit, promotion, and Corporate Bonus cycles, including planning, modeling, guidelines, system setup, communication, quality checks, and reporting.

• Collaborate with Finance on compensation budgets, cost modeling, and incentive governance.

• Support pay equity analyses and global pay transparency mandates.

• Spearhead the implementation and ongoing usage of compensation planning tools and related UKG processes.

• Execute benefits strategy, ensuring visibility and consistency across different countries.

• Establish benefits governance and standards while considering local market and regulatory requirements.

• Lead benefits renewal planning and initiatives alongside local HR teams, brokers, and consultants.

• Contribute to U.S. benefits strategy, plan design, cost optimization, and annual renewals.

• Assess benefit programs, costs, utilization, and market practices.

• Enhance visibility into global benefits programs, costs, ownership, and renewal timelines.

• Refine Total Rewards processes, governance, documentation, and controls.

• Set ownership, decision rights, and approval processes.

• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition, Finance, HRIS, Payroll, HR, and business leaders.

• Develop reporting and analytics for compensation, benefits, workforce costs, and Total Rewards trends.

• Streamline, standardize, and automate Total Rewards processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.

• 6+ years of progressive Total Rewards experience.

• 2+ years of direct people management experience, including coaching and developing team members.

• Global Total Rewards experience in designing, implementing, and overseeing compensation and benefit programs, processes, and governance across various countries and regions.

• Extensive experience with job architecture, leveling, market pricing, salary structures, and compensation governance.

• Experience managing annual merit, bonus, and promotion cycles from start to finish.

• Familiarity with pay equity analysis and pay transparency requirements across multiple jurisdictions.

• Strong U.S. benefits experience, encompassing plan design, renewals, cost management, and broker/vendor management.

• Excellent analytical and financial modeling skills, including advanced Excel proficiency.

• Experience with compensation surveys, market data, HRIS, and compensation planning platforms.

• Familiarity with Radford, WTW, and/or UKG is preferred.

• Background in technology, IT services, professional services, or another complex global organization is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

• Priority referrals for protected veterans.

• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.