Associate Vice President Executive

Major Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive executive compensation strategy that supports the organization’s purpose, commitments, and evolving business model. Ensure programs are competitive, equitable, support succession planning, and aligned with performance and transformation goals.
• Serve as the primary liaison to the Chief People & Culture Officer, SVP of Total Rewards, and executive compensation consultant as they interact with the Board Compensation & Benefits Committee. Prepare materials, analyses, and presentations related to executive pay, benchmarking, base salary planning, performance‑based incentives, compliance activities, and governance best practices.
• Support enterprise‑wide integration and organizational redesign efforts by aligning executive compensation programs with new leadership structures, growth initiatives, and cultural transformation.
• Partner with business and academic leaders to ensure compensation strategies reflect the unique needs of physician executives, faculty leaders, and research administrators, maintaining balance between market competitiveness and purpose alignment.
• Ensure executive compensation programs are clearly communicated to participants, with an emphasis on transparency, purpose alignment, and regulatory compliance. Develop materials that help executives understand the various programs, and support leadership with messaging for internal discussions. Collaborate with Legal and Communications to prepare responses to public disclosures, including Form 990, and proactively manage reputational risk through consistent, values‑driven narratives.
• Ensures the compensation strategy is effectively implemented, within established budgets and complies with relevant regulations, laws, and employment standards. Directs and owns the process to develop, implement and administer compliant and market competitive compensation programs consistent with the organization’s overall reward strategy for assigned areas. Ensure all executive pay programs comply with applicable federal and state regulations, including IRS 409A, 4958 (intermediate sanctions), and not‑for‑profit executive compensation guidelines.
• Manage and ensure the maintenance of the compensation infrastructure including job descriptions, job family/sub‑family, job codes, pay structures, compensation guidelines to support new hire offers, promotions, integrity of our compensation programs and documentation.
• In collaboration with Compensation Delivery, manage and execute annual compensation projects and programs including market pricing review/update, merit, and incentives through various HR technology. Oversee the coordination of the process with other Compensation teams, HR Partners and leaders including development of training materials, presentations, and meetings.
• Conducts special projects regarding highly complex and strategic compensation issues as directed. Leads project teams and manages projects across departments and business units. May represent the company on task forces, committees, and project assignments.
• In collaboration with other compensation leaders and delivery, develop and implement compensation communications, education/training, plan documents and reporting analytics.
• Ensure jobs and compensation programs are appropriately managed for local compliance, internal equity and externally competitive.
• In conjunction with other compensation leaders, lead competitive benchmarking and market analyses using industry‑leading survey data and tools. Develop and maintain compensation analytics to support executive pay decisions and performance alignment.
• Support the development and management financial models and analytics to predict and leverage compensation programs and budgets. Enable data‑driven predictions and decisions based upon consistent financial models, databases, and standard analytical tools.
• Manage all activity throughout the year and audit output, market trends and competitive pay positions to ensure compensation plans meet overall enterprise, region and market goals and objectives.
• Responsible for monthly and quarterly compensation KPI review and reporting.
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