Vice President, Total Rewards

Triumvirate Environmental•Somerville, MA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Triumvirate Environmental is seeking a senior HR leader to design, build, and evolve the organization’s total rewards strategy, including compensation, benefits, HR systems, and people analytics. The role supports a growing, decentralized workforce of hourly and salaried employees and serves as the HR lead for mergers, acquisitions, and integration activities. It partners with the transformation office and executive team to assess and integrate people-related risks, costs, and opportunities. This highly visible, hands-on leadership role combines strategic direction with building programs, structures, and systems from the ground up or at scale. Triumvirate Environmental provides environmental services and compliance-management expertise to organizations in higher education, life sciences, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing. The company describes a culture focused on employee and customer experience, growth, development, education, and creativity. The position reports to the Chief Human Resources Officer.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR, or a related field.
15 or more years of progressive HR experience, with significant depth in total rewards.
At least 2 years of experience in a head of Total Rewards or equivalent senior leadership role.
Prior experience in a multi-site, high-growth, or PE-backed organization.
Experience supporting or leading HR due diligence and integration activities in M&A transactions.
Experience with AI-enabled HR or people analytics tools.
Must be eligible to work in the United States without future sponsorship.
Must have a reliable form of transportation.

Nice To Haves

MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

Design and implement a company-wide compensation philosophy aligned with organizational culture, business strategy, and competitive positioning.
Build and maintain salary structures, job architecture, and pay bands for hourly and salaried employees.
Design, launch, and manage short- and long-term incentive programs aligned with performance and business outcomes.
Ensure compensation practices comply with applicable federal, state, and local pay equity and wage laws.
Partner with Finance on budgeting, forecasting, and compensation cost modeling.
Review benefits offerings against external market benchmarks and recommend and implement changes aligned with business needs, workforce demographics, and cost-management goals.
Manage relationships with benefits brokers, consultants, and vendors.
Ensure benefits programs comply with ERISA, ACA, and other applicable regulations.
Lead HR due diligence for prospective acquisitions, including analysis of deal models to identify and quantify people-related costs.
Assess acquisition targets’ compensation structures, pay practices, and benefits programs to identify gaps, risks, and remediation costs.
Develop and execute compensation and benefits assimilation and transition plans for acquired employees.
Develop HR dashboards and KPIs to measure HR performance, workforce trends, and organizational insights.
Use data and emerging AI and analytics tools to inform decisions about compensation, benefits, retention, and workforce planning.
Deliver regular reporting and insights to executive leadership on HR effectiveness and workforce trends.
Evaluate ADP and other potential platforms as the organization’s HRIS solution.
Lead integration of HR processes and employee data into the HRIS to simplify administration and improve employee and manager experience.
Partner with Finance and IT on data integrity, system scalability, and process automation.
Develop, document, and maintain HR policies, including oversight of the employee handbook.
Ensure policies are consistently applied and compliant with evolving employment law.
Partner with Legal and Compliance to review and update policies as needed.