Total Rewards Director

Pretium Packaging • Aurora, IL

11h

About The Position

At Pretium Packaging, our people are at the center of how we grow, perform, and deliver for our customers. We’re looking for a Director, Total Rewards, to help shape the strategy, structure, and programs that define how our people are valued and rewarded across the enterprise. This is more than administering compensation programs. It’s an opportunity to build and strengthen the infrastructure behind compensation, job architecture, incentive programs, and Total Rewards analytics across a complex, multi-site organization. Reporting to the Vice President, Human Resources & Organizational Development, you’ll partner with HR, Finance, Payroll, Operations, and executive leadership to create programs that are competitive, internally equitable, financially responsible, and aligned with business strategy. Your work will help create greater clarity, consistency, and discipline in how Pretium approaches Total Rewards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• 8–12+ years of progressive Total Rewards, compensation, or HR experience.
• Significant experience designing and administering enterprise compensation programs.
• Demonstrated expertise in job architecture, job evaluation, salary grading, market pricing, salary range development, incentive design, merit planning, compensation analytics, and pay equity analysis.
• Experience working within complex, multi-site organizations.
• Strong financial, analytical, executive communication, and consulting skills.
• Advanced Excel and compensation analytics capabilities.
• Experience with HRIS and compensation systems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in manufacturing, packaging, distribution, or another multi-site operational environment
• Experience with UKG Pro / UKG
• Experience building or redesigning compensation infrastructure
• Executive compensation presentation experience
• CCP or similar Total Rewards certification

Responsibilities

• Develop Pretium’s compensation philosophy, establish governance and decision frameworks, and serve as a trusted advisor to HR and executive leadership.
• Build a consistent enterprise-wide framework of job families, career levels, grades, and progression paths across hourly, salaried, professional, management, and executive positions.
• Design and maintain salary grades and ranges, conduct market pricing, analyze compa-ratios and range penetration, and identify opportunities related to market competitiveness, internal equity, and pay compression.
• Lead the design and governance of annual incentive programs, partnering with Finance and executive leadership to establish performance measures, eligibility, payout methodologies, and financial modeling.
• Lead the annual salary planning process, develop merit guidelines and matrices, and help ensure compensation decisions are differentiated, equitable, and aligned with budget.
• Develop executive-level dashboards and reporting, analyze compensation trends and potential equity concerns, and build data-driven business cases for compensation recommendations.
• Support executive compensation analysis and provide strategic oversight of benefits programs, partnering with consultants, vendors, Finance, Payroll, and HR.
• Strengthen compensation data integrity, job-code structures, workflows, and controls within UKG.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director