Sr Director, Rewards

Director Of Total Rewards

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 Responsibilities

• Enterprise Total Rewards Strategy & Workforce Investment
• Compensation Philosophy, Architecture & Executive Compensation Leadership
• Leader Enablement & Total Rewards Communication
• Workforce-Segmented Benefits & Recognition Strategy
• Process Design, Automation & Governance Controls
• Mergers, Acquisitions & Reward Transformation
• Compliance, Risk Mitigation & Financial Stewardship

Education And Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, or related field;
  Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in Total Rewards leadership, and executive compensation.
• Demonstrated experience leading total rewards work streams during mergers and acquisitions.
• Proven track record of automating manual processes and implementing control frameworks.
• Experience administering and optimizing Workday or similar HRIS platforms required.
• Experience in a complex, multi-entity or global organization preferred.
• Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) strongly preferred.

Knowledge / Skill Requirements

• Deep expertise in executive compensation design and governance.
• Strong financial acumen and modeling capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to build audit frameworks and reduce error rates in payroll and compensation administration.
• Exceptional operational discipline and project management skills.
• Ability to plan and manage cyclical/seasonal workload fluctuations.
• Strong systems orientation with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Clear, confident communication skills with executive leadership.
• Ability to design team resource plans that support business growth.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Total Rewards team.
• Establish clear roles, accountability structures, and performance metrics.
• Build capabilities that reduce reliance on manual intervention.
• Ensure workload planning aligns with business cycles and acquisition activity.

What We Offer

• Health & Well-being:
  Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus life and disability insurance. A robust well-being program with an opportunity to receive an extra day off and more.
• Financial Security: A strong retirement savings program with 401(k), company match, and profit sharing.
• Time for You:
  Paid holidays, vacation time, and personal/sick days each year.

Join us and build a career where you're supported – at work and beyond.

Rite-Hite is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. In accordance with VEVRAA, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for protected veterans. We are also committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace for the safety of our employees and customers.