Vice President - Compensation & Benefits/Rewards - Pharmaceutical

A client is a leading global Pharmaceutical company

Candidate Attributes:

- As a Head Compensation & Benefits and Rewards (VP) will support all employees through HR operations and be a subject matter expert (SME) on policy, compliance, HR Tools and payroll and benefits programs. Working closely with recruitment, finance, and compliance teams.

- Ability to assess, measure, and analyze results/effectiveness of HR process and programs at scale. and be comfortable with understanding and interpret data to validate process as it relates to business objectives.

- This role will require strong communication and management skills as the Head Compensation & Benefits and Rewards will lead the global HR operations team supporting international employees, compensation and benefits, HR systems and documentation integrity.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Direct the planning, design, implementation, maintenance, and administration of all compensation and benefits programs to maintain organizational objectives and a competitive position in the marketplace; management of health & welfare, retirement savings, and payroll

- Review, evaluate, redesign and manage the compensation programs by collaborating with CEO and CHRO and with outside compensation consultants to ensure programs are performance driven, market competitive, legally compliant, accurately administered and effectively communicated

- Oversee the development of incentive, bonus, and commission plans for the enterprise, ensuring that they are designed to drive employee performance in line with business objectives, are market competitive, legally sound and managed/administered accurately and effectively.

- Own and manage global benefits and compensation frameworks ensuring consistency and alignment throughout the company and with the market

- Actively research opportunities for continuous improvement whether that be system enhancements and upgrades or exploring new vendors

- Develop communications strategies and material to create clarity and understanding around HR systems and be able to present to a technical and non-technical audience

- Liaise with finance to optimize value, reduce risk, evaluate options, and make recommendations to executive management

- Effectively communicate trends, legislation changes, and other relevant related data on a timely basis to the management team and when appropriate, recommend a course of action to effectively manage impacted/assigned plans

- Partner with Legal and compliance on data privacy and security matters and other HR-related industry standards & compliance requirements

- Manage external partnerships with legal and other vendors to ensure consistency of company standards and compliance of local HR law