Director, Global Compensation

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director, Global Compensation based in United States. This senior leadership role will shape compensation strategy across a complex, globally distributed organization. You will serve as a strategic advisor to HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition teams, and senior business leaders. The role combines global market intelligence, job architecture, salary structures, pay equity, and compensation governance. You will translate sophisticated market data into practical recommendations that support talent attraction, retention, and organizational growth. Working across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, you will help ensure compensation remains competitive, equitable, and globally consistent. The position offers significant influence over compensation programs while partnering closely with leaders across a fast-growing life sciences environment. Success will require strong analytical judgment, executive presence, and the ability to navigate complex compensation challenges with confidence. Serve as the lead compensation advisor for complex and globally distributed business areas, supporting strategic hiring, retention, promotions, job leveling, organizational changes, and annual compensation planning. Build a deep understanding of business strategies, talent priorities, organizational structures, and regional market conditions to anticipate compensation needs and recommend effective solutions. Analyze complex compensation challenges and develop market-informed recommendations that balance business objectives, external competitiveness, internal equity, global consistency, and compensation philosophy. Design and recommend innovative compensation solutions supporting critical talent, retention initiatives, and strategic business priorities. Advise senior HR and business leaders by presenting clear, data-driven recommendations and exercising sound judgment on complex compensation decisions. Lead the global compensation market intelligence strategy, including relationships with survey providers, survey investments, market pricing, and benchmarking across functions, levels, and geographies. Own and enhance global job architecture, leveling frameworks, job evaluation methodologies, and salary structures to promote consistent and market-aligned compensation practices. Maintain expertise in pharmaceutical and biotechnology compensation practices, as well as regional market and regulatory considerations across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC. Lead annual market reviews for assigned business groups, evaluating market movement, competitiveness, salary structures, midpoint progression, range adjustments, and potential pay compression. Provide subject matter leadership for annual compensation planning, global pay transparency, pay equity, and broad-based compensation program enhancements. Represent business needs and emerging workforce challenges in the development and implementation of compensation programs, policies, frameworks, and processes. Partner with HR, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders across functions and geographies to ensure compensation decisions remain aligned with organizational priorities and governance standards. Requirements Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of progressive broad-based compensation experience in high-growth, global environments. Strongly preferred experience working within a global public pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or similarly complex organization. Demonstrated experience partnering with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and senior business leaders across multiple functions, geographies, and organizational levels. Deep expertise in market pricing, compensation benchmarking, salary structure design, job architecture, job leveling, job evaluation, and compensation decision support. International compensation experience, particularly supporting EM