Global Total Rewards Manager

Global Total Rewards Manager Summary The Global Total Rewards Lead is a senior individual contributor who shapes the global Total Rewards strategy and serves as the organisation's subject matter expert for compensation, benefits, job architecture, and pay governance. Operating with significant autonomy, this role influences executive decision-making, partners with senior HR and business leaders, and leads enterprise-wide initiatives that strengthen Hexagon's ability to attract, retain, and reward world-class talent. Job 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. Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, 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. • Significant experience managing and executing annual merit and compensation review cycles in a global organisation. • Strong knowledge of global regulatory requirements and pay transparency legislation. • Working knowledge of US benefits administration, including federal and state regulatory, compliance, filing and reporting requirements (for example ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA and Form 5500). • Advanced analytical capability with HRIS, market pricing, workforce analytics, and compensation modelling. • Proven project management skills, leading complex multi-country initiatives from planning through delivery. • Strong systems aptitude, with the ability to configure, troubleshoot and optimise HRIS and benefits platforms and to work effectively with technology vendors. • Experience running RFP processes and managing vendors, including benefits brokers and carriers, through selection, implementation and ongoing performance. • Experience supporting the Total Rewards workstream for global M&A and organisational transformation initiatives is preferred. • Experience influencing executive leadership in a complex global matrix organisation. • SAP SuccessFactors (Employee Central and Compensation) strongly preferred. • CCP, GRP, or equivalent certification preferred. Work Environment This is a US-based remote role requiring regular collaboration across time zones using digital communication and HR systems. Occasional business travel may be required, subject to business needs. The role primarily involves computer-based work in a home-office environment.