Total Rewards Manager

Role Overview

• Support the Total Rewards team to operationalize ANI’s total rewards strategy, aligning compensation, benefits, and recognition priorities to business goals, workforce plans, and budgets.
• Serve as a partner to HR Business Partners and business leaders on rewards decisions (offers, promotions, retention, job architecture), balancing competitiveness, internal equity, and pay transparency expectations.
• Partner with Total Rewards Snr Director to lead semi-annual compensation cycles (merit, bonus, equity/long-term incentives as applicable), including process design, communications, training, and stakeholder management.
• Drive market pricing, benchmarking, and pay equity analyses; interpret external survey data (e.g., Radford and other sources) and recommend program/structure changes with clear business impact.
• Partner with Benefits vendors to evaluate program design, employee experience, and cost trends; translate insights into recommendations and business cases.
• Build executive-ready reporting and storytelling (dashboards, scorecards, narratives) to inform leadership decisions on total rewards investments and outcomes.
• Leverage AI and advanced analytics to improve insights and efficiency—e.g., automating recurring analyses, detecting anomalies in rewards data, and generating draft communications and decision summaries (with appropriate review and controls).
• Partner with HRIS, Payroll, and Finance to ensure data quality, process controls, and scalable workflows across systems (Oracle and ADP experience preferred), enabling accurate reporting and audit readiness.
• Support compliance and risk management for total rewards, partnering with Legal to ensure adherence to applicable federal and state requirements (e.g., FLSA, ERISA, ACA) and support audits and disclosures.
• Manage and continuously improve recognition and engagement programs, measuring effectiveness and recommending enhancements that reinforce culture and performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in economics, finance, business, liberal arts, or a related field
• 5+ years of progressive experience in total rewards, benefits, compensation, HR, finance, or consulting, with demonstrated ownership of programs and cycles.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and advise leaders with clear, business-oriented recommendations; comfort presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Experience with benefits management – working with insurance providers, benefits enrollment, understanding of benefit offerings etc.
• Experience with compensation structures, job evaluation/job architecture, benchmarking, and pay equity analysis; familiarity with survey tools and sources (e.g., Radford).
• Strong analytical and data management skills; advanced Excel required, and Power BI (or similar) strongly preferred.
• AI familiarity and curiosity: ability to use and learn new practices using generative AI and analytics tools to accelerate reporting, insights, and communications while applying appropriate judgment, confidentiality, and review standards.
• Experience working with HRIS/Payroll systems and cross-functional process design; preferred experience in Oracle HRIS and ADP.
• Strong project management, change management, and process improvement skills; ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• High integrity and discretion with confidential employee and business information; strong collaboration skills in a fast-paced environment.

Tech Stack

• Oracle

Benefits

• health insurance coverage
• life and disability insurance
• retirement savings plans
• paid leave programs
• paid holidays and paid time off