Manager Total Rewards

Reporting to: VP, HR

Location(s): Addison, TX, or Houston, TX

Houston hires will be expected to travel to Addison, TX 3 days per month.

Position Summary

The Total Rewards Manager is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the comprehensive total rewards strategy to attract, motivate, develop and retain employees. This role will oversee compensation, benefits, wellness, performance, and recognition programs and works closely with HR Operations and the leadership team to design total rewards and talent strategies that are aligned with organizational goals and culture.

Essential Responsibilities

1. Manage and administer benefits programs, including health, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, 401k and wellness initiatives, analyze plans to provide recommendations and lead annual open enrollment.
2. Work with brokers and vendors to evaluate and recommend platforms for benefit program administration.
3. Create and maintain the job architecture framework by conducting job analysis and creating descriptions for roles and establish job classifications based on level, function, complexity to support career paths and development.
4. Define and maintain pay grades salary ranges for all job classifications, ensuring internal equity and external competitiveness through market benchmarking.
5. Develop and manage the performance management process, merit cycle and recognition programs and reward and incentive strong performers and company values.
6. Review ad-hoc pay increase and promotions and provide recommendations to management regarding compensation decisions.
7. Support the ongoing plan design and administration of incentive plans (annual bonus plans, commission plans), distribute incentive plan documents, and facilitate the payout processes for the incentive plans in partnership with Finance and payroll.
8. Ensures compliance through audits of benefits and compensation practices, including ACA reporting, 401k non-discrimination testing, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) classification.
9. Create leave of absences policies and programs and administer in partnership with HR Operations team.
10. Create communication strategies and materials to educate employees about the organization's total rewards programs and demonstrate the value and impact of offerings to enhance engagement.
11. Other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Psychology, Communications, or related field is required
• Minimum 5 years of experience in roles supporting compensation, benefits or talent functions
• Experience creating and managing incentive plans
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Suite – Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Preferred Workday Experience

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Comprehensive HR knowledge of compensation practices, incentive plans, job structures, organizational structure and design, performance management, workforce planning, talent management, employee engagement, HR technology and analytics
• Knowledge of employment legislation and regulations such as FMLA, ADA, ACA, HIPAA, COBRA, ERISA
• Demonstrates RTS values of trust, collaboration, innovation, resiliency and customer centricity.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to provide HR metrics and data to make decisions
• Ability to work well across the organization at various levels
• Ability to create and implement organization-wide HR programs and initiatives from the ground up successfully
• Demonstrates resiliency; ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with strong attention to detail
• Ability to handle ambiguity in a dynamic environment