You’re sooo Benefit!
Benefit Cosmetics is looking for a Senior Manager, Total Rewards to help shape and deliver compensation, benefits, recognition, and rewards programs that support our people and our business. This role partners across People, Finance, Legal, Payroll, Talent Acquisition, HRIS, and business leadership to ensure our rewards programs are competitive, equitable, scalable, compliant, and easy to understand. The ideal candidate brings strong compensation expertise, analytical horsepower, operational excellence, and a people-first mindset—plus the ability to simplify complex programs and make Total Rewards feel unmistakably Benefit.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead and support compensation programs, including annual compensation planning, market pricing, salary structures, job evaluation, incentive planning, pay equity analysis, and compensation governance.
- Partner with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders to provide thoughtful guidance on offers, promotions, adjustments, leveling, and compensation-related decisions.
- Support the design, implementation, and ongoing improvement of benefits, recognition, wellbeing, and rewards programs that enhance the employee experience.
- Use data, benchmarking, and market insights to evaluate program competitiveness, identify risks and opportunities, and make clear recommendations to leadership.
- Partner with LVMH Compensation & Benefits partners to execute key compensation processes and ensure compensation plans and strategies are aligned.
- Partner with Finance on compensation budgets, workforce planning inputs, forecast assumptions, scenario modeling, and labor cost analysis.
- Create reports, dashboards, and executive-ready materials that help leaders understand rewards trends and make informed people decisions.
- Develop and maintain Total Rewards policies, tools, templates, process documentation, and employee- and manager-facing communications.
- Ensure rewards programs and processes are compliant, consistent, well-governed, and aligned with Benefit’s values and business priorities.
- Partner with vendors, consultants, auditors, and external advisors to support program delivery, benchmarking, compliance, and continuous improvement.
- Bring a bold, practical, and joyful approach to improving how employees and managers experience Total Rewards at Benefit.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Total Rewards, compensation, benefits, people analytics, HR operations, consulting, finance, or a related field.
- Strong compensation experience, including market pricing, salary structures, job evaluation, annual compensation cycles, incentive programs, and pay equity analysis.
- Experience supporting benefits, rewards, recognition, wellbeing, or employee experience programs preferred.
- Advanced analytical skills and the ability to translate complex data into clear insights, recommendations, and leadership-ready materials.
- Strong Excel skills and experience with HRIS, compensation planning tools, survey platforms, dashboarding, and reporting systems.
- Experience partnering with Finance on budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, or labor cost modeling.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex concepts for different audiences.
- Strong project management skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
- High degree of discretion, confidentiality, integrity, and sound judgment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, Analytics, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
- CCP, CBP, SHRM, HRCI, or related certification a plus.
Schedule:
- Hybrid – Onsite presence required at Benefit HQ 3x per week.
The target salary range for this position is $115,000-$175,000 annually. The actual salary offered is based on market location and will depend on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, years of relevant experience; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job. This position is eligible to earn an annual bonus. This position is also eligible for the following benefits, including but not limited to: comprehensive health, dental and vision plans; a 401(k) plan with employer matching, various paid time off programs; employee discounts/perks; life insurance; disability insurance; flexible spending accounts.
- Contract type: Permanent Job
Skills Required
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Total Rewards, compensation, benefits, people analytics, HR operations, consulting, finance, or related field.
- Strong compensation experience including market pricing, salary structures, job evaluation, annual compensation cycles, incentive programs, and pay equity analysis.
- Experience supporting benefits, rewards, recognition, wellbeing, or employee experience programs.
- Advanced analytical skills and ability to translate complex data into clear insights and leadership-ready materials.
- Strong Excel skills and experience with HRIS, compensation planning tools, survey platforms, dashboarding tools, and reporting systems.
- Experience partnering with Finance on budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, or labor cost modeling.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to simplify complex concepts for varied audiences.
- Strong project management skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
- High degree of discretion, confidentiality, integrity, and sound judgment.
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, Analytics, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- CCP, CBP, SHRM, HRCI, or related certification.
- Hybrid onsite presence required at Benefit HQ three days per week.
- Experience partnering across People, Finance, Legal, Payroll, Talent Acquisition, HRIS, and business leadership.
What We Do
Benefit Cosmetics is the San Francisco-based makeup brand that believes laughter is the best cosmetic. Benefit is the No. 1 Brow Brand Worldwide and is synonymous with fun, instant beauty solutions. Founded in 1976, the beauty brand has swept the world with one-of-a-kind cult favorite products like Benetint, BADgal BANG Mascara, the POREfessional Face Primer, Hoola Bronzer, Precisely, My Brow Pencil and Gimme Brow+. Benefit is one of the fastest growing prestige beauty brands in the business with locations in 59 countries across 5 continents. With more than 3,000 BrowBars with over 6,000 aestheticians worldwide, Benefit has become the brow destination for both product and service! Benefit is part of the world’s leading luxury products group, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy. At Benefit, everything we do and every product we make is to put a smile on people’s face. We do this by breaking rules with wit and wisdom, solving problems with courage and creativity and by always trying to make real connections with the people we work with and the customers we touch every day. If you work hard, play hard and love to laugh out loud, you are just what we are looking for to join the Benebabes. To explore how you can be a part of our feel good business, go to https://www.benefitcosmetics.com/en-us/careers The Mission At Benefit, we believe that laughter is the best cosmetic and that makeup doesn’t have to be serious to look good. We believe that we are not only in the makeup business but in the feelgood business, because when we are laughing & having fun, that’s when we are at our most beautiful. We create instant beauty solutions that are the perfect storm of innovation, storytelling and creative names & packaging that will put a smile on your face.
