Senior Rewards and Benefits Manager (North America)
On-siteAtlanta, Georgia, United States or Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Job Summary
Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing development of compensation programmes across the United States and Canada for legal professionals and business services employees. Provide expert advice on salary structures, job architecture, and incentive design while leading the annual compensation review process, including planning, modelling, and executive reporting. Oversee benefits and retirement programmes, ensuring governance, market competitiveness, and alignment with employee wellbeing objectives through annual reviews and vendor partnerships. Partner with the global reward team to deliver strategic initiatives, improve reward governance, and drive consistency across regions while maintaining compliance with applicable legislation.
Required Qualifications
- Significant experience in compensation and reward management
- Substantial experience operating in a senior reward role within a complex, matrixed organisation
- Deep expertise in compensation strategy
- Deep expertise in market benchmarking
- Deep expertise in salary structures
- Deep expertise in job architecture
- Deep expertise in annual compensation review processes
- Strong knowledge of North American compensation practices
- Strong knowledge of North American legislation
- Strong knowledge of North American reward market trends
- Experience designing and modelling compensation programmes
- Experience designing and modelling incentive plans
- Experience designing and modelling reward scenarios
- Exposure to benefits and retirement programme governance
- Experience working with external providers
- Experience working with consultants
- Experience working with brokers
- Demonstrated experience leading strategic reward projects
- Experience leading strategic reward projects across multiple geographies
- Experience leading strategic reward projects across business functions
- Strong analytical capability
- Advanced experience using reward data to generate meaningful insights
- Advanced experience supporting executive decision making
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills
- Ability to influence senior leaders
- Ability to build credibility with senior leaders
- Ability to build credibility with HR
- Ability to build credibility with Finance
- Ability to build credibility with the business
- Strong project management experience
- Strong change management experience
- Proven track record of delivering complex initiatives from design through implementation
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent presentation skills
- Ability to explain complex reward concepts to technical audiences
- Ability to explain complex reward concepts to non-technical audiences
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint
- Advanced proficiency in modelling
- Advanced proficiency in reporting
- Advanced proficiency in executive-level presentations
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources
- Bachelor's degree in Business
- Bachelor's degree in Finance
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline
- Equivalent professional experience
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working within a professional services environment
- Experience working within a legal environment
- Experience working within a consultancy environment
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