Vice President Rewards

Bel is part of a mission-driven, family-owned company with more than 160 years of innovation and social purpose, a presence in 120 countries, and a commitment to repositioning the role of snacking to help support a balanced diet. With beloved brands like Babybel®, GoGo squeeZ®, The Laughing Cow®, and Boursin®, Bel U.S. creates delicious fruit, veggie, and dairy portion-sized snacks that bring nourishment, joy, and convenience to everyday life.

Guided by the values of care, dare, and commit, Bel is committed to the Fight for Better Snacking—delivering accessible, portion-sized options while advancing sustainable innovation, healthier snacking, regenerative agriculture, circular economy, and community support. Bel’s mission gives the company a powerful platform to show up credibly at industry moments that shape conversations, partnerships, and the future of food.

Bel has headquarters in Chicago and New York City and operates 4 manufacturing plants in Little Chute, WI;
Brookings, SD;
Traverse City, MI; and Nampa, . #IWork For All For Good

The Vice President of Total Rewards is a pivotal strategic leader who will shape how employees experience and value working for our organization. Leading comprehensive total rewards programs across four plants, two office locations, and a remote workforce throughout the United States, this role brings together global and local HR partners to build a forward-looking strategy that fuels our business ambitions, strengthens our employee value proposition, and elevates our employer brand.

The role also champions operational excellence, integrity, and compliance across HRIS, payroll, compensation, benefits, international mobility, and cash and noncash recognition programs. This is a #hybrid role (2-3 days in office) based in Chicago.

• Run Best-in-Class Total Rewards function across multiples populations and locations in the US
  • Define and track KPI across all Total Reward functions
  • Offer competitive benefits, rewards and compensation across all locations and best in class employee experience when it comes to administration
  • Oversee all HRIS systems to ensure data flow, strong back-end and front-end user experience and optimization of processes
  • Ensure legal compliance and consistency across multiple states and provinces in respective countries
  • Lead budgeting and forecasting processes for area of responsibilities. Recommends strategies to optimize spend
  • Drive processes improvements to increase efficiencies and reduce non added value work
  • Design and implement total rewards policies, practices and standards in a way that fits the local legislative and business ambition.
  • Recommend changes and enhancements to policies and procedures, which benefit the business and employees
• Contribute to Local and Global Human Resources strategies
  • Represent Total Rewards function within the US HR Leadership team
  • Contribute in defining local HR Strategy and transformation priorities according to business needs and in consistency with Global HR Strategy
  • Act as main partner for Total Reward Global Team representing the US voice
  • Educate global team about compliance requirements, US culture and best practices to ensure global Roadmap is relevant and brings added value to our business our local productivity
  • Manage assigned cost center including budgeting and forecasting according to the company guidelines
  • Conduct regular assessments and audits to identify gaps and opportunities.
  • Deliver HR reporting analytics capabilities & recommendation to HRBP teams (i.e turnover, DE&I, headcount management, compensation gap analysis etc.)
• Lead Total Rewards US team
  • Design and maintain clear standard operating procedures (SOPs) that are understood and followed by the team
  • Recruitment and…