Vice President, Total Rewards

Memorial Physician Practices; Brentwood (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Benefits

PTO & Protections

401(k) Match

Well-being programs

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Lifepoint Health is seeking a Vice President, Total Rewards to design and drive an integrated Total Rewards strategy for a multi-state healthcare system. You will oversee compensation, benefits, wellness, retirement programs, and executive pay, partnering with senior leaders to align with organizational goals.

You will lead governance, market benchmarking, and salary structure design while ensuring regulatory compliance and cost management.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive HR or leadership experience.
• Significant Total Rewards leadership experience.
• Experience leading executive compensation programs.
• Experience delivering data-driven Total Rewards programs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute an integrated Total Rewards strategy aligned with organizational goals.
• Lead compensation and benefits governance and executive compensation programs.
• Oversee benefits, wellness, retirement, leave, and recognition programs.
• Develop dashboards and analytics to measure compensation competitiveness, benefits utilization, turnover, and ROI.
• Manage Total Rewards budget and partner with Finance on labor cost forecasting.
• Lead and develop Compensation and HR Operations teams and promote continuous improvement.

Skills

Total Rewards

Executive compensation

HR analytics

Talent leadership

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Vice President, Total Rewards

Your experience matters

At Lifepoint Health, we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality, scalability, and significant impact across our hospitals and communities. As a member of the Health Support Center (HSC) team, you'll support those that are in our facilities who are interfacing and providing care to our patients and community members to positively impact our mission of making communities healthier®.

More about our team

The Vice President of Total Rewards is responsible for developing and executing an integrated Total Rewards strategy that enables the organization to attract, retain, and engage exceptional talent across a complex healthcare system. This executive oversees compensation, benefits, wellness, recognition, retirement programs, and executive compensation as parts of the holistic Total Rewards offering while ensuring market competitiveness, regulatory compliance, financial stewardship, and an outstanding employee experience.

This role partners closely with executive leadership, finance, operations, legal, and HR business partners to align Total Rewards programs with organizational strategy and workforce needs.

How you'll contribute

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and implement a comprehensive Total Rewards strategy aligned with organizational goals.
• Lead enterprise compensation and benefits philosophy and governance.
• Ensure programs support and enhance recruitment, retention, engagement, and workforce sustainability.
• Advise executive leadership on emerging market trends and workforce economics.

Compensation

• Design and administer executive, leadership, and employee compensation programs, and provide expert consultation for the physician services team on physician compensation.
• Lead annual compensation planning, market adjustments, and incentive programs.
• Oversee market benchmarking and salary structure design.
• Ensure compliance with Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Equal Pay regulations, Stark Law considerations, and healthcare-specific compensation requirements.

Benefits & Wellbeing

• Provide high-level oversight of health, welfare, retirement, leave, wellness, and recognition programs.
• Evaluate and regularly evolve benefit offerings and plan design to ensure competitiveness while managing costs.
• Partner with brokers and vendors to optimize program performance.

HR Operations & Analytics

• Develop dashboards measuring compensation competitiveness, benefits utilization, turnover, and ROI.
• Use workforce analytics to inform executive decision-making.

Financial Stewardship

• Develop and manage Total Rewards budget.
• Partner with Finance on labor cost forecasting.
• Evaluate financial impact of compensation and benefits decisions.

Team Leadership

• Lead Compensation and Benefits/HR Operations & Technology teams, with direct leadership of the broader Compensation team and through the VP of Benefits/HR Operations & Technology.
• Build functional capability and succession plans.
• Foster continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Why join us

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits:Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time andpart-time employees.
• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development:Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What we're looking for in this onsite role:

Education

• Bachelor's degree required
• Master's or other advanced degree preferred (HR, Business, Healthcare Administration, Finance)

Experience

• 12+ years progressive HR or other applicable leadership experience
• Significant Total Rewards leadership (within healthcare preferred but not required)
• Leadership of end-to-end Total Rewards in a complex, multi-site, multi-state enterprise strongly preferred
• Experience leading executive compensation programs
• Demonstrated experience implementing designing and delivering creative, pragmatic, and data-driven Total Rewards programs

EEOC Statement

Lifepoint Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Lifepoint Health is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.

You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.