Vice President, Total Rewards

Triumvirate Environmental • Somerville, MA

7d • 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. The Vice President partners with the transformation office and executive team to assess people-related risks, costs, and opportunities and support smooth integrations. This is a highly visible, hands-on leadership role that combines strategic leadership with building programs, structures, and systems from the ground up or at scale.

The position reports to the Chief Human Resources Officer. Triumvirate Environmental provides environmental services and compliance-management support to organizations in higher education, life sciences, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing. The company describes its culture as focused on employee and customer experience, growth, development, education, and creativity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) 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 private-equity-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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a company-wide compensation philosophy aligned with the organization’s 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 federal, state, and local pay equity and wage laws.
• Partner with Finance on compensation budgeting, forecasting, and cost modeling.
• Review current benefits against external market benchmarks and recommend and implement changes to benefits programs.
• Manage relationships with benefits brokers, consultants, and vendors.
• Ensure benefits programs comply with ERISA, ACA, and other applicable regulations.
• Lead HR due diligence on prospective acquisitions, analyzing deal models and identifying and quantifying 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.
• Provide executive leadership with regular reporting and insights 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.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) contribution
• Tuition reimbursement
• Safety training and opportunities for external training and certifications for some positions
• Mentorship and career succession planning
• Relocation opportunities
• Auto and home insurance discounts
• Pet assistance discount plans
• Discounted movie passes

What This Job Offers

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