Total Rewards Manager

ND Paper • Sturtevant, WI

22h • Onsite

About The Position

The Total Rewards Manager drives ND Paper’s ability to attract, retain, and motivate top talent by designing and executing competitive, scalable, and cost‑effective compensation, benefits, and wellness programs. This role strengthens organizational performance by ensuring pay equity, optimizing reward structures, and delivering data‑driven insights that support workforce planning and leadership decision‑making. By leading annual compensation cycles, enhancing benefits offerings, and ensuring regulatory compliance, the Total Rewards Manager directly contributes to employee engagement, operational excellence, and ND Paper’s long‑term growth.

Requirements

• BA/BS in a business focused major, or related.
• 5+ years of progressive compensation experience, or related; experience in a manufacturing industry preferred, experience with a union is a strong plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to package and present complex analyses and recommendations clearly and comfortably and for different audiences.
• Knowledge of reward vendors, consultants, and solution providers.
• Able to create processes and practices from the ground up in collaboration with all stakeholders.
• Flexibility, developing partnerships, critical thinking, multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment, ability to look from different angles and work collaboratively, delivering results.
• Market pricing and benchmarking tools
• HRIS expertise, familiarity with ADP is a plus
• Data integrity and audit skills
• Multi-site payroll collaboration
• Regulatory compliance knowledge
• Data modeling, trend analysis and forecasting
• Strategic alignment with organizational goals, talent strategy and workforce planning
• Accountability for results
• Problem solving/root cause analysis
• Process discipline by holding all stakeholders to company policies and SOPs
• Data driven decision making in all applicable scenarios
• Rigorous adherence to all local, state and federal regulations to proactively mitigate compliance risk
• Ability to cross-functionally collaborate with multiple sites, departments and teams to provide seamless compensation and benefits operations.

Nice To Haves

• experience in a manufacturing industry preferred
• experience with a union is a strong plus
• familiarity with ADP is a plus

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate safety as a core value and establish a safe work environment by actively leading the safe execution of work.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive total rewards strategy aligned with organizational goals and talent strategy.
• Lead the evolution of compensation and benefits programs to ensure competitiveness, cost-effectiveness, and scalability.
• Provide strategic guidance to senior leadership on market trends, pay positioning, and workforce planning.
• Oversee base salary structures, incentive plans (STIP/LTIP), and executive compensation frameworks.
• Conduct market benchmarking using salary surveys and external data sources.
• Ensure internal equity through job architecture, leveling frameworks, and pay analysis.
• Lead annual compensation cycles (merit, bonus, promotions), including modeling and budget management.
• Manage design and administration of health, welfare, retirement, and wellness programs.
• Evaluate vendor performance, negotiate contracts, and manage broker relationships.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations (e.g., ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA).
• Lead the annual open enrollment process, including strategy, planning, system configuration, vendor coordination, and execution.
• Develop and implement comprehensive employee communication strategies to drive engagement and informed benefit elections.
• Partner with HRIS and Payroll teams to ensure accurate system setup, data integrity, and seamless enrollment processing.
• Deliver insights through compensation and benefits analytics, dashboards, and reporting.
• Perform cost analysis and forecasting for total rewards programs.
• Support audits and compliance reporting requirements.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations related to compensation and benefits.
• Maintain and update policies, procedures, and documentation.
• Manage and develop total rewards team members, total of 2 direct reports.
• Serve as a subject matter expert to HR Business Partners and leadership teams.
• Lead cross-functional projects including HRIS implementations and process improvements.
• All other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary benefits such as accident insurance, hospital indemnity, and critical illness for you and your family.
• Financial protection benefits, including life insurance, disability insurance, and business travel accident insurance.
• Tax advantaged accounts such as Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Paid holidays, personal days, and vacation days to support work-life balance.
• A 401K retirement plan with a company match and annual fixed contribution
• Wellness programs with incentives and an on-site clinic available at our Rumford and Biron location.
• Competitive salaries
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees