The Director, Total Rewards is responsible for leading the design, governance, and execution of RJW's total rewards strategy across compensation and benefits. This role ensures that RJW's pay and benefits programs are market competitive, internally equitable, compliant with US regulations, and aligned to the company’s growth, performance, and talent strategies.
Lead the development, documentation, and ongoing refinement of RJW's total rewards philosophy, including how we position pay and benefits in the market and within the company.
Design, implement, and maintain job architecture, including job families, levels, and grading, in partnership with HR Business Partners and business leaders.
Establish and manage the RJW grading structure and salary frameworks, ensuring consistent application across roles and functions.
Own salary benchmarking and market pricing, including survey participation, benchmarking methodology, and the translation of market data into ranges and structures.
Lead the annual US merit, promotion, and incentive review processes, including planning, budgeting, guidelines, tools, manager communications, and post-cycle analysis.
Oversee the design and administration of US benefits programs in partnership with the People Operations Shared Services team, ensuring alignment with RJW’s total rewards philosophy and employee experience goals.
Provide expert consultation to HR and business leaders on complex compensation and rewards matters, including offers, retention packages, internal equity, and pay-for-performance decisions.
Develop and maintain clear policies, standards, and governance for total rewards programs to support consistent decision making and appropriate controls.
Monitor US regulatory and market trends in compensation and benefits and recommend changes to keep programs compliant, competitive, and aligned with business needs.
Partner with Finance on budgeting, forecasting, and analytics related to rewards programs and ensure that spend is understood and well managed.
Define and track key metrics to assess the effectiveness and health of total rewards programs and communicate insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
RJW total rewards programs are clearly defined, well governed, and understood by HR, leaders, and employees.
Job architecture, grading, and ranges are consistently applied and support effective talent and organizational decisions.
Annual merit and incentive processes run smoothly, on time, and within budget, with strong adoption by leaders and managers.
Leaders view the Director, Total Rewards as a trusted advisor on complex pay and rewards topics.
Data, insights, and recommendations from total rewards are regularly used to inform people and business decisions.
5–7 years of experience in compensation, benefits, or total rewards management, with a strong US focus and demonstrated ability to work in a coordinated, multi-US-state environment.
Deep experience with compensation design, including job evaluation, salary benchmarking, pay structures, and annual merit and incentive cycles.
Experience designing or managing job architecture and grading frameworks.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to work with large data sets, build models, and translate analysis into clear recommendations.
Demonstrated ability to influence and communicate effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
Proven ability to manage multiple cyclical processes and projects with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
Experience in logistics, distribution, transportation, or other operations-intensive, multi-site environments.
Experience operating in a high-growth or change-intensive business.
Familiarity with US pay transparency, pay equity, and other emerging rewards-related regulations.
Hybrid role – with around 3 days per week in the office at Romeoville, IL
Occasional travel within the United States may be required to support key meetings, implementations, and stakeholder engagement.
Additional time may be required during peak compensation and benefits cycles.
This job description is intended to provide general information about the Director of Total Rewards position. The above does not constitute an exhaustive list of the job duties to be performed by an associate holding the position of Director of Total Rewards, nor are the lists of the physical requirements and environmental conditions exhaustive.
You may be asked by your supervisor or managers to perform other duties. Your performance will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the job duties listed in this job description, as well as any job duties not specifically listed above that you may be asked from time to time to perform.
As with all positions, the duties and responsibilities are subject to change at any time as needs arise and at the discretion of the RJW Transport, Inc. The Company has the right to revise this job description at any time.
Employment-At-WillIt is the Company's policy that all associates, other than those covered by a written individual employment or labor agreement with the Company that has been authorized in writing by the Company's Chief Executive Officer or Board of Directors, are not employed for any fixed term and are employed at the will of the Company for an indefinite period. Just as our associate's, reserve the right to resign their employment at any time for any reason the Company reserves its right to terminate an associate any time for any reason either with or without cause.
Neither this Job Description nor any of its individual terms constitutes commitments between the Company and its associates as to the terms, conditions or duration of employment, nor does it modify the prevailing Employment-At-Will relationship.
Compensation & BenefitsWe offer a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability, paid holidays, time off, retirement savings plan participation, and additional employee programs.
Skills Required
- 5-7 years of experience in compensation, benefits, or total rewards management with a strong US focus
- Deep experience with compensation design (job evaluation, salary benchmarking, pay structures, annual merit and incentive cycles)
- Experience designing or managing job architecture and grading frameworks
- Strong analytical skills, ability to work with large data sets, build models, and translate analysis into recommendations
- Demonstrated ability to influence and communicate effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional partners
- Proven ability to manage multiple cyclical processes and projects with high accuracy and attention to detail
- Hybrid work schedule with around 3 days per week in the office at Romeoville, IL
- Experience in logistics, distribution, transportation, or other operations-intensive, multi-site environments
- Experience operating in a high-growth or change-intensive business
- Familiarity with US pay transparency, pay equity, and other emerging rewards-related regulations
What We Do
RJW Logistics Group is a leading retail logistics and consolidation provider that out-performs the market by bringing your product to the retail shelf on-time, in-full, and at a lower overall cost. We serve over 100 national retailers, delivering our customers’ products 98%+ OTIF on average, and offering compliance solutions that ensure you don’t experience fines and fees. Our full suite of in-house customer solutions and proprietary technologies streamline the supply chain process and simplify your retail efforts, including value-added services, asset-based transportation and warehousing, 99%+ inventory accuracy, automated dispute resolution, online traceability, trade show services, and more.
