Total Rewards Manager
$31,200–$31,200 year
HybridHouston, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Develop and execute a comprehensive Total Rewards strategy aligned with workforce growth and market competitiveness. Lead enterprise-wide compensation benchmarking, design scalable salary structures, and assess pay equity risks to ensure internal equity. Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, translating complex market data into business cases that influence compensation investments and benefits enhancements. Manage annual benefits renewals, vendor negotiations, and program utilization analysis while establishing governance practices for compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. Build multiyear roadmaps and dashboards to support organizational readiness for expansion beyond 2,000 employees across multi-state operations.
Required Qualifications
- Expert knowledge of compensation strategy, salary structures, market benchmarking, pay equity, incentive design, and compensation governance
- Strong knowledge of employee benefits strategy, plan administration, annual renewals, vendor management, utilization analysis, and employee communications
- Demonstrated ability to build, redesign, and scale compensation and benefits programs rather than solely maintain established programs
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret market data, workforce trends, financial impacts, employee feedback, and operational needs
- Demonstrated business acumen and executive presence, with the confidence to respectfully challenge existing practices and influence leadership decisions
- Ability to develop business cases, dashboards, executive presentations, policies, governance structures, and scalable program frameworks
- Strong project management, change management, communication, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to communicate complex compensation and benefits concepts clearly to employees, operational leaders, and executives
- Ability to operate effectively in a high-growth and evolving environment with competing priorities and developing processes
- Working knowledge of federal, state, and local compensation and benefits laws and regulations
- Eight or more years of progressive experience in compensation, benefits, or Total Rewards
- Experience supporting organizations undergoing significant growth, organizational transformation, or workforce scaling
- Demonstrated success building, redesigning, or substantially improving compensation and benefits programs
- Experience supporting construction, industrial, manufacturing, energy, skilled trades, logistics, or another large hourly workforce environment
- Experience supporting multi-state operations
- Experience implementing or optimizing HRIS, compensation, benefits administration, analytics, or reporting technologies
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting large hourly, field-based, skilled-trades, or multi-state workforces
- Experience supporting organizations undergoing significant growth, organizational transformation, or workforce scaling
- Experience supporting construction, industrial, manufacturing, energy, skilled trades, logistics, or another large hourly workforce environment
- Experience supporting multi-state operations
- Experience implementing or optimizing HRIS, compensation, benefits administration, analytics, or reporting technologies
- One or more of the following certifications: Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS), SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), or related compensation, benefits, or human resources certification
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field
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