Vice President – Total Rewards
| Company | Western Digital |
|---|---|
| Location | San Jose, CA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Relevant experience in developing, managing, and leading compensation and benefit programs, including executive compensation, broad based compensation, and employee benefits.
- Experience leading Total Rewards organizations through times of transformation; leadership through M&A activity, divestitures, spin-offs and carve-outs is strongly preferred.
- Superior executive presence with the ability and credibility to present ideas and recommendations at all levels within the organization and to the Executive Leadership team and Board of Directors.
- Grasps complexities and connections among problems or issues, able to prioritize elements that will most drive success.
- Keen analytical capabilities, with the ability to identify and bring forward trends or market gaps in all elements of total rewards programs, as well as risks.
- Exceptional business knowledge, general management, and leadership capability.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategy, design, operational execution, communication and administration of Western Digital’s compensation, equity, recognition, benefits, mobility and HR M&A programs and activities, including annual and long-term incentives, equity incentives, executive compensation and recognition.
- Provide leadership to Western Digital’s job architecture program, ensuring that all salary programs, merit budgets and salary structures have market pricing at their core and are aligned with Western Digital’s overall philosophy.
- Develop strategies to drive employee awareness and understanding of all compensation, recognition, and benefit programs; align as appropriate to Western Digital’s Talent Philosophy.
- Lead all components of board level materials, presentations and recommendations related to Total Rewards, including direct ownership for the Proxy’s CD&A as well as all total rewards-related governance matters.
- Responsible for the executive reward agenda, leads, and brings innovation to Executive compensation plan design. Acts as a strategic and trusted advisor on Executive compensation matters to senior leadership across the organization. Establishes credibility & confidence to enable practical and thoughtful engagement with the Compensation Committee, Executive team and leadership.
- Monitor external trends and benchmarks. Proactively adjust total reward programs to stay competitive in the market; drive additional total rewards benefits harmonization outside the United States.
- Ensure compensation, recognition, benefits and equity programs are both innovatively and equitably designed and then consistently applied.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure optimal integrations with enterprise goal setting and metric development, performance, and talent management systems.
- Develop deep relationships with leaders across the organization, HR Business Partners, and Talent Acquisition to help understand how total rewards is impacting Western Digital’s ability to attract the best talent.
- Grow talent capability and bench strength within Total Rewards to enables stronger leadership succession.
- Lead rewards related strategy and execution of People Reporting & partner effectively with the Analytics function to drive mature, data-driven conclusions and decisions across the organization at scale.
- Responsible for all HR matters related to M&A, including leading teams’ efforts for due diligence reviews of M&A targets all the way through integration of compensation, pension, benefits and other HR systems of acquired companies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading Total Rewards organizations through times of transformation; leadership through M&A activity, divestitures, spin-offs and carve-outs is strongly preferred.