Head of Rewards

Bronson Healthcare is the largest employer and leading healthcare system in the region. Headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, we are a not-for-profit, community-governed healthcare system that offers a full range of services from primary care to critical care across more than 100 locations with over 800 licensed beds. We are proud to house the only Level 1 Trauma Center and Children’s Hospital in Southwest Michigan.

If you’re a Total Rewards leader who gets energized by turning complexity into clarity and strategy into measurable impact, this is a role for you! We’re hiring a Head of Total Rewards at Bronson, and it’s a high-visibility opportunity where your work will be felt across the organization, shaping how we attract, retain, and reward the people who care for our communities in a mission-driven environment with strong leadership support, a talented team, and a true seat at the table to build smart, competitive, and sustainable rewards programs.

This role blends Total Rewards and HRIS, so you’ll shape both the strategy and the systems that power it, ensuring great decisions are backed by great data.

Reports to:

Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer.

• Lead a comprehensive enterprise total rewards strategy aligned with organizational objectives, talent strategy, culture, and long-term workforce planning.
• Evolve a compensation and benefits philosophy that supports attraction, retention, engagement, and performance across a diverse, multi-generational healthcare workforce.
• Define governance models, decision frameworks, and approval processes to ensure consistency, equity, compliance, and cost containment.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer and executive leadership on workforce cost trends, labor market dynamics, and rewards-related risks in regulated healthcare environments.
• Lead all aspects of compensation strategy, including job architecture, role profiles, job families, market pricing, and pay structures across clinical, operational, and corporate roles.
• Oversee an array of compensation and reward programs, ensuring alignment with performance outcomes, patient-centered goals, and retention priorities.
• Direct annual compensation planning cycles, including merit programs.
• Conduct system-wide compensation analyses to address pay equity, retention risks, and market competitiveness.
• Ensure compliance with wage and hour laws, pay equity standards, and pay transparency regulations, with specific attention to healthcare labor requirements.
• Integrate labor market intelligence and compensation insights into recruiting, workforce planning, and succession strategies.

• Lead the strategy, design, and administration of health, welfare, retirement, and well-being programs in a complex healthcare benefits environment.
• Design inclusive and competitive benefits that support employees across life stages, clinical roles, shift-based work forces, and high-demand labor markets.
• Manage broker and vendor relationships, including RFPs, renewals, negotiations, and ongoing performance management.
• Balance innovative plan design with cost containment, financial sustainability, and employee experience.
• Ensure full compliance with healthcare-related benefits regulations, reporting, and audits.
• Promote holistic employee well-being through physical, mental, financial, and emotional health programs.
• Direct the HR technology ecosystem, including HRIS, payroll integrations, benefits administration platforms, and related tools.
• Define and execute the HR technology roadmap to support scale, automation, analytics, and improved employee experience.
• Ensure data integrity, reporting accuracy, governance, and security controls across HR systems.
• Partner with IT and Finance to align HR technology with enterprise systems, data strategies, and cybersecurity standards.
• Enable advanced people analytics to support workforce insights, compliance reporting, and executive decision-making.

• Oversee HR Operations and the HR Service Center, delivering efficient,…