Director, Compensation & Benefits

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Join Our Team at Hu Friedy Group  – Innovating Excellence in Dental Instrument Manufacturing. Hu Friedy Group  is a leading manufacturer of dental instruments and infection prevention products. Our 10,000-plus products, hand‑crafted by highly skilled artisans, are known for their precision, performance, longevity, reliability, and quality. To help dental professionals be The Best in Practice, Hu Friedy Group  provides a unique combination of world‑class products, value‑added services, clinical education, and dental community platforms that result in superior clinician performance and enhanced safety for dental professionals and their patients.

Working at Hu Friedy Group  is so much more than a job, as every employee has a part in driving and supporting the organization’s inspirational vision to be a global force in advancing dental performance through Best‑In‑Practice dentistry that improves lives around the world.

The Director, Global Benefits & Compensation is a highly hands‑on, execution‑focused leader responsible for the day‑to‑day design, administration, analysis, and delivery of compensation and benefits programs across Hu Friedy Group ’s global workforce. This role is explicitly operational and tactical in nature, with direct ownership for executing core compensation and benefits processes across multiple geographies. It is not a purely strategic or policy‑setting role.

The successful candidate will personally manage complex details, resolve issues, build models, and partner closely with HR, Finance, Payroll, Legal, and external vendors in a private‑equity‑backed environment. This role is ideal for a leader who enjoys doing the work, navigating global complexity, and building scalable programs while remaining deeply involved in execution.

• Directly own and execute global compensation programs, including:
• Annual merit, bonus, and incentive cycles
• Global job architecture, leveling, and market pricing
• Executive, management, sales, and spot incentive programs
• Personally conduct job evaluations, global market pricing, and pay analyses, balancing internal equity and local market competitiveness
• Build and maintain detailed compensation models, cost scenarios, and global pay‑impact analyses (highly Excel‑driven and auditable)
• Partner closely with Finance on global labor cost planning, AOP, forecasting, and private‑equity cost expectations
• Support M&A activity, integrations, and restructuring initiatives with hands‑on compensation harmonization and modeling
• Ensure global pay practices comply with applicable wage, hour, pay equity, and transparency regulations

• Own the day‑to‑day administration of global benefits programs across North America, EMEA, and APAC, including:
• Health, welfare, retirement, and statutory benefits
• Global leave programs and country‑specific requirements
• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex global benefits issues and employee cases
• Lead annual benefits renewals and open enrollment processes across regions, coordinating vendors, brokers, and internal stakeholders
• Manage global vendor relationships, including brokers, carriers, and retirement providers, ensuring service quality, cost control, and compliance
• Oversee global benefits compliance activities, including ERISA (U.S.), local statutory requirements, and audit remediation
• Partner closely with Payroll and local HR teams to resolve eligibility, deductions, and contribution issues across countries

• Ensure global compensation and benefits programs meet regulatory requirements across jurisdictions
• Personally manage audits, corrections, and remediation efforts (e.g., ERISA corrections, pension issues, local compliance gaps)
• Maintain plan documentation, governance materials, and audit‑ready records
• Partner with Legal, Finance, and external…