VP, Global Compensation Administration & Governance

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a VP, Global Compensation Administration & Governance based in the United States. This senior leadership role will own the operational excellence, governance, and continuous improvement of global broad-based compensation programs. You will establish scalable processes covering compensation planning, salary structures, market pricing, job architecture, pay equity, transparency, compliance, and compensation technology. Working across a global workforce, you will partner with Total Rewards, HR Technology, Talent Management, Payroll, Finance, Legal, Talent Acquisition, and HR leadership. The role combines strategic thinking with hands-on operational ownership, particularly as the function establishes its foundational operating model. You will use data, automation, analytics, and emerging AI capabilities to strengthen compensation decision-making and employee experiences. As the function matures, you will have the opportunity to build and lead a dedicated compensation administration team. Lead the administration of global broad-based compensation programs, including salary increases, promotions, market adjustments, and other compensation actions. Own the preparation, execution, and administration of annual compensation planning cycles, including timelines, governance, system configuration, testing, validation, reporting, and stakeholder support. Manage compensation workflows, approvals, planning systems, governance processes, and operational procedures. Maintain salary grades, salary bands, range structures, market pricing methodologies, and related compensation frameworks. Conduct salary structure reviews, market movement analyses, geographic differential assessments, and compensation competitiveness evaluations. Lead compensation survey participation and market benchmarking activities, including submissions, data validation, vendor management, and survey governance. Serve as the steward of the global job architecture, governing job families, career levels, classifications, job catalogs, and organizational job structures. Evaluate requests for new jobs, job modifications, and job retirements while maintaining consistency across career levels, salary structures, career paths, and organizational design. Govern the job description library, standards, templates, and documentation practices in partnership with Talent Management, HR Business Partners, and Talent Acquisition. Lead and support pay equity analyses, pay transparency initiatives, regulatory reporting, compensation disclosures, and related governance activities. Identify potential pay disparities, compensation trends, and compliance risks and develop appropriate recommendations with Compensation, People Analytics, HR, Legal, and business leaders. Maintain salary range disclosure processes, pay equity reporting, compensation metrics, and related governance standards. Monitor emerging compensation regulations and reporting requirements and develop guidance and educational materials as needed. Own compensation policies, guidelines, operating procedures, governance documentation, and internal control frameworks. Establish audit-ready compensation governance practices and conduct compensation audits and compliance reviews. Manage policy exception processes, track compensation-related risks, and support internal and external audits. Develop recurring compensation dashboards, scorecards, executive reports, and operational performance metrics. Analyze compensation trends, market competitiveness, workforce impacts, and internal pay relationships to provide actionable insights to leadership. Partner with HR Technology on compensation system functionality, enhancements, implementations, upgrades, testing, configuration, and data integrity. Identify opportunities for automation and leverage Power BI, advanced analytics, AI-enabled tools, and data visualization t