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Arcadis · 3 days ago

Performance and Reward Director - Americas

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. The Performance and Rewards Director for the Americas is responsible for directing total rewards strategies and leading the development of innovative compensation and benefits programs to attract and retain high-performing employees.

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Responsibilities

Develop, design, and implement innovative compensation strategies: Create market competitive compensation programs through the use of market surveys and industry research that are financially efficient and allow Arcadis to attract, motivate, and retain top talent
Lead, develop and support local teams: Lead local PRO staff to develop and deliver best in class market specific compensation and benefit offerings
Compliance: Ensure that all compensation and benefits programs in the Americas operate in compliance with all applicable government regulations
Collective Bargaining: Provide market intelligence to personnel responsible for the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements in Latin America to ensure that negotiated labor rates support a market competitive proposition for our customers
Global Benefits Framework: Partner with regional PRO Directors to establish global benefits policies, maintain inventories of all global benefits programs, market benchmark programs to ensure market competitiveness, and develop cost efficient financing of programs by partnering with finance and global insurance business partners
Key contributor: Actively contribute to the development and rollout of Global Total Reward programs and provide direct support to top level leaders in the Americas to align compensation strategies to help drive success in the marketplace
Develop incentive compensation strategies: Design short term incentive pay strategies that link variable compensation to corporate and individual performance
Development of sales incentive framework: Function as subject matter expert for PRO COE in the design, administration, and governance of all sales incentive arrangements to drive sales and create accountability for sales personnel to deliver on company sales targets
Develop benefit strategies: Design cost effective benefits strategies that allows Arcadis to provide a market competitive benefit offering and get the biggest bang for our buck
Make recommendations: Provide recommendations for executive compensation arrangements, including short- and long-term incentives and benefits
Advise clients: Provide education, research and advice to senior executives, people business partners and talent acquisition on compensation and benefit programs
Assist with implementation: Help implement and administer all compensation & benefits programs through collaboration with people services team, shared service centers, and systems technology partners
Collaborate: Actively participate and contribute subject matter expertise with multi-disciplinary teams to co-create, develop, and implement people solutions

Qualification

Total rewards experienceCompensation strategiesBenefits program designStakeholder managementData analyticsFinancial acumenProfessional certificationsMaster's degreeFluency in SpanishFluency in PortugueseCommunication skillsPresentation skills

Required

Extensive progressive experience in total rewards
Understanding of the complexity of leading benefit and compensation issues in an international setting
Experience in working in a matrixed organization in an international setting
Experience in a role where you need to balance global/local needs
Consulting agility, with experience using data analytics to align HR solutions with business imperatives
Ability to work in an agile way
Business fluency with financial acumen and operations knowledge, with a focus on business outcomes
Stakeholder management and the maturity to deal with senior business leaders
Confidence in hearing strong leadership opinions and ability to influence to better outcomes
Ability to challenge decisions made by leadership
Ability to make quick, sound decisions based on knowledge and judgment
Understanding and appreciation of the marketing, communication and presentation skills required to facilitate projects and initiatives
Ability to develop and maintain new and existing networks that support the effective and sustained delivery of the role
Strong written and verbal English skills

Preferred

Master's in human resources or business related discipline desired
Professional certifications in compensation and benefits desired
Fluency in Spanish or Portuguese desired

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
EAP
401K
STD
LTD
AD&D
Life insurance
Paid parental leave
Reward & recognition program
Optional benefits including wellbeing benefits
Adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Nine paid holidays
15 days PTO that accrue per year

Company

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$0.03M
2017-06-01Grant· $0.03M
1995-10-06IPO

Leadership Team

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Alan Brookes
Chief Executive Officer
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Neil McArthur
Chief Executive Officer
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