Sr Director, Rewards
Listed on 2026-06-22
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Management
Talent Manager, HR Manager
Purpose and Scope
At Rite-Hite, your work makes an impact. As the global leader in loading dock and door equipment, we design and deliver solutions that keep our customers safe, secure, and productive. Here, you’ll find innovation, stability, and the chance to grow your career as part of a team that’s always looking ahead.
The Director of Total Rewards is a strategic and operational enterprise leader responsible for architecting, optimizing, and governing the company’s total rewards strategy and infrastructure. This role serves as the enterprise workforce investment strategist and executive advisor, shaping compensation, benefits, executive rewards, and recognition programs as key levers to drive performance, engagement, retention, and long-term value creation.
This leader is responsible for the company’s compensation philosophy, job architecture, pay transparency strategy, and workforce cost modeling approach, ensuring rewards align with business strategy, workforce complexity, and Rite-Hite’s culture and values.
The role leads compensation, executive compensation, benefits, recognition, and reward programs with strong emphasis on process design, automation, governance rigor, operational accuracy, and financial discipline.
The Director ensures total rewards remain competitive, performance-driven, market-aligned, and ROI-focused.
This leader designs scalable systems and seasonal work plans that ensure precision, efficiency, compliance, and clarity across all phases of the annual compensation and benefits cycle.
The Director plays a critical role in acquisition integration and enterprise reward transformation initiatives, ensuring harmonization, governance consistency, and workforce continuity.
The ideal candidate is both a strategic architect and disciplined operator with deep executive compensation expertise, strong financial acumen, M&A integration experience, and a demonstrated ability to modernize and transform reward systems while enabling leaders to confidently manage pay conversations.
Essential Duties and ResponsibilitiesEnterprise Total Rewards Strategy & Workforce Investment
Develop and execute a total rewards strategy aligned with company business objectives, culture, and market competitiveness, utilizing a Total Rewards Value approach balancing salary, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, and benefits. Serve as strategic advisor to the Executive Leadership Team, influencing executive incentive design, governance decisions, and board-level reward discussions.
Architect scalable compensation and benefits infrastructure capable of supporting growth, workforce complexity, and acquisition integration.
Lead workforce cost modeling, financial scenario planning, and ROI-driven reward strategy to optimize investment while maintaining competitive positioning.
Design structured annual and multi-year work plans that reflect seasonal workload cycles (merit planning, bonus cycles, open enrollment, executive compensation reviews, integration activity). Clearly define required team structure, capabilities, and external partnerships needed to execute effectively at enterprise scale.
Compensation Philosophy, Architecture & Executive Compensation Leadership
Own and evolve the enterprise compensation philosophy, job architecture framework, and pay transparency strategy.
Design and administer competitive compensation structures, including base, incentive, and executive compensation programs aligned to performance and business outcomes.
Lead executive compensation planning, governance, and reporting in partnership with senior leadership and, where applicable, the Board.
Ensure accurate modeling, financial forecasting, testing, and governance of compensation programs.
Lead annual salary planning processes including merit, promotions, short-term and long-term incentives. Ensure pay equity, regulatory compliance, and alignment with company values and performance expectations.
Develop leader capability to conduct effective pay and performance conversations.
Leader Enablement & Total Rewards Communication
Design and deploy enterprise-wide compensation and total rewards training for leaders and HR partners.
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