Job Overview

The Vice President, Total Rewards is the enterprise leader responsible for shaping and delivering a total rewards strategy that supports business performance, strengthens organizational capability, and enhances teammate engagement. Leading a high-performing team, this executive will provide strategic and operational direction across compensation, health and welfare benefits, retirement, well-being, mobility, and related rewards programs. The role will ensure programs are competitive, sustainable, scalable, compliant, and aligned with the Company’s purpose, values, and teammate value proposition.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Enterprise Total Rewards Strategy: Develop and steward the enterprise total rewards strategy, philosophy, and roadmap. Advise senior leaders on reward priorities, investment choices, market positioning, and emerging workforce needs.
• Compensation and Incentives: Provide executive oversight for job architecture, market pricing, salary structures, base pay, annual merit planning, and short- and long-term incentive programs. Ensure programs are internally equitable, externally competitive, financially responsible, and aligned with business objectives.
• Health, Welfare and Retirement: Lead the strategy, design, evaluation, implementation, and administration of health and welfare, retirement, savings, pension, and well-being programs. Regularly review union and non-union programs to ensure they remain competitive, cost-effective, valuable to teammates, and compliant with regulations, labor agreements, and collective bargaining requirements.
• Executive and Board Support: Partner with internal stakeholders and external advisors to develop high-quality analysis, recommendations, and materials for the Corporate Benefits Committee and the Board of Directors, as appropriate.
• Teammate Experience and Communications: Build clear, compelling communications that help current and former teammates understand benefit programs, program changes, required disclosures, and the full value of their total rewards package.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Leadership Attributes:
• Strategic and Enterprise-Level Mindset: Connects rewards strategy to business outcomes and talent priorities.
• Trusted Advisor: Builds credibility through sound judgment, transparency, and thoughtful counsel.
• Analytical and Decisive: Use data to clarify choices, manage risk, and drive action.
• Collaborative Influencer: Creates alignment across functions and leads effectively without relying solely on authority.
• Teammate-Focused: Designs programs and communications with the teammate experience in mind.
• Builder of Capability: Develops talent, strengthens systems, and creates sustainable operating practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• 10 or more years of progressively responsible Total Rewards, compensation, and benefits experience, including significant depth in the design and administration of programs across multiple sites and diverse job populations.
• At least five years of senior HR leadership experience with responsibility for (or significant involvement in) hiring, developing, and leading a Total Rewards team in a corporate environment.
• Demonstrated success in designing and leading annual compensation, incentive, and benefits programs in a complex organization.
• Strong knowledge of job architecture, market pricing, salary structures, broad-based compensation, incentive design, health and welfare plans, retirement programs, and vendor management.
• Working knowledge of relevant tax, accounting, regulatory, disclosure, and compliance considerations, including SEC regulations and filings, proxy disclosures, FASB guidance, and the Internal Revenue Code, as applicable.
• Experience managing union/labor arrangements for applicable workforce segments, including the ability to navigate collectively bargained benefits, compensation implications, and related compliance considerations.
• Proven ability to synthesize complex data, evaluate tradeoffs, build persuasive recommendations, and influence senior leaders.
• Strong business and financial acumen with a record of balancing teammate value, market competitiveness, affordability, risk, and operational feasibility.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead change, improve processes, manage multiple priorities, negotiate effectively, and deliver results through cross-functional partnership.
• Ability to travel domestically as business needs require.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certification such as CCP, GRP, CEBS, or CBP.
• Experience supporting a Corporate Benefits Committee or Board of Directors.
• Experience with union and non-union benefit populations, mergers and acquisitions, enterprise mobility, and large-scale program integration.
• Experience modernizing Total Rewards through technology, analytics, process improvement, and enhanced teammate communications.

Work Environment

Office environment Ability to travel domestically as business needs require.

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