Director Total Rewards

Company Summary:

Client is one of the largest independent solar energy and energy storage owner-operators in the U.S. Serving enterprise customers with clean energy and complementary solutions, such as battery storage and EV Charging, we are enabling an electrified, decarbonized world. Originally founded inside of Goldman Sachs in 2017, we have grown our fleet to nearly 3-gigawatts of solar, including 850 projects across 28 states, and over 270 megawatts of battery storage projects, with each project tailored to achieve the bold decarbonization targets and goals of our more than 200 blue-chip customers. We are headquartered in New York City with offices in Delray and Boca Raton, Florida and Madrid, Spain.

About the position:

The Total Rewards Director will oversee our compensation and benefits department’s policies, objectives, and initiatives. The Director will develop and administer all compensation and benefits programs designed to attract and retain employees. The Total Rewards Director must have full capability in developing and administering both short-term and long-term incentive plans and benefits, for private and public companies.

As the Total Rewards Director, you will:

• Provides leadership and guidance on all company compensation programs including annual salary planning, merit increases, salary structures, variable pay and other incentive programs to ensure alignment to company goals and budget.
• Benchmarks and assesses C&B competitiveness through salary and benefits survey participation, job evaluation, salary structure development and incentive plan design.
• Effectively partners with HR Managers and Talent Acquisition, who are front facing to internal leaders for attracting, promoting and retaining talent.
• Partners to ensure correlation between compensation and performance management to ensure talent is competitively compensated in line with compensation strategy and philosophy.
• Researches, evaluates, and identifies opportunities to improve or change current benefit offerings.
• Advises leadership on applicable federal, state, and local employment regulations that impact benefits, leave, compensation policies, and ensures all plans remain compliant.
• Responsible for overseeing all company leave of absence programs.
• Leads Open Enrollment for the company and facilitates ease of benefits selection for employees.
• Manages relationships between consultants, administrative vendors, and insurance carriers.
• Knowledgeable of health and welfare plans, especially self-insured health plans, Safe Harbor 401K plan administration.
• Responsible for ensuring company compliance in required training and benefits administration e.g., completion of required annual training (such as Sexual Harassment, Cybersecurity), MOTUS vehicle program, and service awards program.
• Implements an employee outreach calendar at operating facilities for educating and promoting employee wellbeing.
• Ensures compensation and benefits data is current and accurate in HRIS and can provide automated data feeds to 3rd party benefits administrators for auto enrollment and stoppage.
• Establish, and maintain dashboards to measure key compensation, benefits, and engagement data and identify trends and prepare reports as necessary for Board of Directors and the executive leadership.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources or Business preferred.
• 10 years of progressive HR experience. HR Manager experience would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of State and Federal wage and hour laws including FLSA, ERISA, COBRA, FMLA, ADA, Workers' Compensation, Medicare, HIPAA, and social security and DOL requirements.
• Experience working with ERP/HRIS systems and developing and maintaining C&B configuration.
• Proficient user of Microsoft products, e.g., Excel, Outlook, Teams, and Word/
• Public company experience preferred.
• Protects and maintains sensitive and confidential information.
• Ability to communicate effectively to key stakeholders, both internally and externally.
• Ability to present analysis succinctly to HR team members, managers and executives.
• Be an approachable and thoughtful partner, facilitating decision-making.
• Strong team player and highly collaborative.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

How we set you up for success:

We cultivate a culture of equity, through transparency and accessibility, where everyone thrives. We know our most valuable resource is our people. That’s why we offer the following benefits. By investing in you, we know we are investing in the clean energy of tomorrow.

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance beginning the 1st of the month following your date of hire
• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays and floating holidays
• 401(k) with competitive employer match
• Hybrid work schedule including a “work from anywhere” allocation
• Parental leave