Director, Global Compensation.

Job Contributions and Key Responsibilites

Global Compensation

• Serves as the compensation expert leader for compensation program strategy and program design to ensure desired business results.
• Designs and manages global compensation strategy, including base salary, variable pay, equity programs, and executive compensation.
• Leads global benchmarking and market analysis to maintain competitive position across all geographies.
• Develops and maintains compensation structures, salary bands, and job architecture frameworks aligned with organizational goals.
• Partners with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and Finance to ensure compensation recommendations are aligned with internal equity and market competitiveness.
• Provides subject matter expertise on compensation practices, trends, and legislative changes across key global markets.
• Leads the annual compensation review and merit cycle processes, including budgeting, system setup, training, and communications.
• Oversees the global job evaluation processes and ensures consistency in leveling and titling across regions.
• Manage compensation-related audits and ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations in all operating countries.
• Manage Executive Compensation program administration – long term incentive plan activity, payment distribution, ensure integration and alignment of executive pay with overall company goals and objectives.
• Non-Qualified Compensation Deferral Plan – Serves as internal NQDC Plan Administrator for all related activity – enrollment, investment tracking, deferral reporting, distribution activity, participant training and assistance; manage service administrator and advisor relationships.
• Collaborates and consults with functional business leaders and partners to provide analytical insights and compensation guidance to ensure compensation plans in our farming operations provide the desired business results.
• Responsible for external market study and competitive positioning of company pay practices ensuring market competitiveness and cost-effectiveness.
• Comp Data Governance - Oversees the global compensation system capabilities related to information structure, HRIS business process, reporting and analytics capabilities. Partners with IT and HR to maintain global job architecture, compensation structures / guidelines, and data accuracy within Oracle HCM (PeopleConnect).
• Responsible for the compensation and tax equalization for Global Mobility / International Assignments.

Other

• Other Duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience with global compensation, deferred compensation, tax equalization for expatriate and mobility programs.
• Experienced change agent related to implementation of compensation programs and reorganizations, organizational structural changes.
• Knowledge and experience of the agricultural workforce and issues preferred
• Knowledge and experience with LEAN methodology desired.
• Experience managing / implementing compensation within an HR Information System preferred.
• Fluent in English and Spanish (verbal and written communication)
• Ability to be agile, innovative, and forward thinker with process improvements to help support business needs.
• Ability to summarize large amounts of data into understandable, digestible formats. Exceptional analytical, statistical, quantitative, and deduction skills.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive matter with objectivity and discretion.
• Ability to use good judgement.
• Exceptional communication and customer service skills and ability to work with employees at all levels of the organization including senior leadership across all departments and C-Suite.
• Ability to influence and present to Company Leaders at all levels and Board of Directors.
• Exceptional project management skills, ability to manage projects with remote participants both direct and indirect reporting relationships.
• Comfortable and experienced with ambiguity, complexity, and urgency.
• Ability to build relationships, rapport easily and collaborate with others in the organization.

Education Level:

• Bachelor’s degree in related fiel