Description
Lead the strategy, design, governance, and compliance of the organization’s compensation and benefits programs, aligning total rewards with business objectives while ensuring competitiveness, cost-effectiveness, and legal compliance.
- • Set enterprise compensation strategy, pay structures, and incentive plans based on market and regulatory analysis.
- • Design, evaluate, and revise benefits policies and plans to remain competitive, cost-effective, and compliant.
- • Oversee integration of compensation and benefits programs during mergers and acquisitions.
- • Lead the compensation and benefits team and coordinate cross-functional partners.
- • Direct preparation and distribution of communications on pay, benefits, and related policies.
- • Approve and manage annual total rewards budgets and financial forecasts.
- • Analyze compensation policies, wage data, and benchmarks to inform pay decisions and governance.
- • Govern job architecture, job descriptions, and classification systems, defining levels and families.
- • Manage the design and deployment of tools and systems for benefits enrollment and compensation decisions.
- • Ensure compliance with ERISA and all related reporting, disclosures, and filings.
- • Advise executives and managers on pay equity, EEO considerations, and anti-discrimination in rewards.
- • Mediate complex employee benefits issues and escalate with providers as needed.
- • Select, contract, and manage benefits vendors, brokers, and third-party administrators.
- • Develop and maintain compensation and benefits policies, procedures, and controls.
- • Oversee new-hire benefits orientation content and total rewards education.
- • Conduct or direct audits and analytics to monitor program effectiveness, costs, and risks.
- • Support labor relations by leading compensation and benefits components of bargaining strategies.
- • Represent the organization in compensation- or benefits-related hearings, audits, and investigations.
- • Study legislation, arbitration decisions, and market trends to anticipate impacts on total rewards.
- • Maintain required records and dashboards; deliver executive reports on key metrics and compliance.
- • Develop recommendations to improve total rewards practices and present to senior leadership.
- • Prepare workforce cost models to project compensation and benefits impacts of staffing plans.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
