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Executive Leader, Total Wellbeing-HR leadership

Nemours
Jacksonville, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 Jul 2025

About the role

Nemours is seeking an Executive Leader, Total Wellbeing.

Primary Function: 

The Executive Leader of Total Wellbeing is a key member of the People Operations leadership team, responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive total rewards strategy that attracts, motivates, retains and develops top talent in alignment with the Nemours mission, values and long-term business goals. The Executive Leader will create innovative strategies and processes to advance whole child health and the healthiest workforce enabling high-performing and highly effective teams. 

Reporting directly to the EVP and Chief People Officer, the Executive Leader leads enterprise-wide compensation, benefits, executive compensation, recognition, and well-being programs with a strategic focus on associate and physician experience, market competitiveness, and fiscal responsibility. This executive will bring deep subject matter expertise, strategic foresight, and a data-informed mindset to drive innovation in how we reward and support our workforce – enhancing the associate experience and positioning Nemours as an employer of choice.

Essential Functions: 

  1. Act as a trusted advisor to Chief People Officer, Compensation Committee, Benefits Committee, regional leadership teams and HRLT to shape and influence future business strategies. Key advisor to sensitive and complex issues. Builds a strong relationship with client groups and amongst Human Resources. 
  2. Develop and lead a future-focused wellbeing strategy that supports business growth, workforce transformation, associate engagement and healthiest workforce, driving a culture of collaboration, agility, and high performance across all HR initiatives.  
  3. Align total rewards programs with talent strategies and long-term workforce planning. 
  4. Design, implement and govern equitable and competitive compensation programs. 
  5. Provide thought leadership on emerging total rewards trends while proactively leading job architecture frameworks. 
  6. Oversee the design and administration of innovative and comprehensive health, welfare, retirement, and wellness benefits, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements related to compensation and benefits. 
  7. Evaluate, optimize and advance vendor relationships, plan design and associate value delivery. 
  8. Develop and lead enterprise-wide total rewards analytics function to ensure data-driven decisions and ROI on investments. 
  9. Lead, coach and develop a high-performing total rewards team, fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement withing total rewards and HR. 
  10. Foster strong partnership and collaboration across HR, finance, legal, and business units to fully integrate rewards with talent, performance and workforce strategy.

Addition Functions: 

  1. 15+ years of progressive total rewards leadership including executive compensation and benefits strategies. 
  2. Strong expertise in workforce planning, organizational design, enterprise-wide compensation and benefits programs in complex, matrixed and/or multi-state organizations. Exceptional and prior experience with change management. 
  3. Strong knowledge of applicable laws and regulatory environments (e.g., ERISA, ACA, FLSA, SEC rules). 
  4. Prior experience in working closely with executive teams and influencing business decisions through HR insights. 
  5. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data driven approach to decision making. Ability to manage complex, large scale change initiatives and drive strategic HR programs. 
  6. Provide strategic and emerging insights on human capital trends within and outside of health care. 
  7. Proven record of positively impacting the associate experience and fostering a culture of trust, respect and accountability. 

Qualifications: 

Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s Degree preferred.

15+ years of total rewards experience; 10+ years of people management experience required.

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.


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