Global Total Rewards Leader — Remote, Strategy & Governance

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence; North Kingstown (RI); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence is seeking a senior Total Rewards Leader to shape global compensation and benefits across the enterprise. You will own multi-year roadmaps, govern benefit philosophy, and partner with senior HR to drive market-aligned pay and governance.

As a US-based remote leader, you will oversee US benefits administration, regulatory reporting, and global harmonisation efforts. Your analytics and dashboards will inform executive decisions and M&A readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Finance, Economics, or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive global Total Rewards experience.
• Deep expertise across compensation strategy, global benefits, job architecture, executive compensation support, and governance.
• Experience managing annual merit and compensation review cycles globally.
• Strong knowledge of global regulatory requirements and pay transparency legislation.
• Experience US benefits administration including ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA and Form 5500.
• Experience leading complex multi-country initiatives and influencing executive leadership.
• SAP SuccessFactors (Employee Central and Compensation) strongly preferred.
• CCP, GRP, or equivalent certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the Total Rewards multi-year roadmap aligned to the divisions business and talent priorities.
• Act as the Business Area authority on global benefits philosophy, compliance and governance.
• Act as the divisional support for job architecture, grading, executive and broad-based compensation governance.
• Influence senior executives and HR leadership through market insights, analytics, and strategic recommendations.
• Plays an active role in the design and governance of global salary structures, job families, pay ranges, incentive frameworks, and harmonisation across regions.
• Understanding of global pay transparency, ensuring readiness for evolving legislation including the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
• Take ultimate responsibility for the Hexagon Benefit Plan across the Autonomous Solutions (including Mining), Infrastructure & Geospatial and Manufacturing Intelligence business areas, covering approximately 3,500 employees.
• Own US benefits administration, ensuring plans are delivered accurately and compliantly and are aligned to the global Total Rewards and benefit strategy.
• Manage US benefits filing and regulatory reporting, ensuring compliance with federal and state requirements.
• Lead global benefits harmonisation and broker implementation, aligning programmes, eligibility and governance across countries.
• Run RFP processes for benefits brokers, carriers and other vendors, from requirements definition through selection and implementation.
• Manage vendor relationships, including performance, contracts, service levels and cost.
• Act as divisional compensation partner for working with Divisional President and Senior Leadership on compensation matters.
• Apply strong project management discipline to deliver global benefits and compensation initiatives on time and within scope.
• Lead benefits due diligence, valuation support, and integration strategy for mergers, acquisitions, and organisational transformations.
• Ensures enterprise governance for annual compensation planning, promotion reviews, and market pricing.
• Develop executive dashboards, predictive workforce analytics, and Board-ready reporting.
• Sponsor complex cross-functional global programmes while influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
• Coach HR Business Partners on total rewards strategy and governance.

Skills

Total Rewards strategy

Compensation governance

Benefits administration

Executive compensation

HR analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR/Business/Finance

Tools

SAP SuccessFactors

HRIS

Market pricing tools

Job description

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence is seeking a senior Total Rewards Leader to shape global compensation and benefits across the enterprise. You will own multi-year roadmaps, govern benefit philosophy, and partner with senior HR to drive market-aligned pay and governance.

As a US-based remote leader, you will oversee US benefits administration, regulatory reporting, and global harmonisation efforts. Your analytics and dashboards will inform executive decisions and M&A readiness.