Vice President, Head of Total Rewards Americas

The Vice President, Total Rewards – Americas is a senior leadership role responsible for co-shaping and delivering the Adecco Group’s Total Rewards strategy across the region, ensuring alignment with global principles while tailoring for local business needs.

Reporting to the Group Head of Total Rewards and as a member of the global TR leadership team, this role works as an integral part of the Global CoE—collaboratively defining strategy rather than operating as a standalone regional authority. The focus is on ensuring global frameworks are effectively adapted, adopted, and championed within the region through strong stakeholder alignment and influence.

The position plays a key role in driving the Group’s ongoing transformation, partnering with HR and business leaders to evolve reward programs so they are simple, focused, and aligned to business and organisational needs. It also requires actively shaping the Group agenda by bringing regional insight into global discussions, while ensuring successful execution through strong engagement and buy-in across stakeholders.

The role brings together data, technology, and business insight to evolve how reward is delivered—leveraging tools, systems, and emerging capabilities (including AI) to improve decision-making and employee experience.

As a senior leader, the VP will also contribute to building and shaping a high-performing, diverse global Reward CoE, fostering collaboration, capability, and a strong sense of shared purpose.

Compensation & Investment Effectiveness

• Lead compensation processes with a strong focus on quality of outcomes and allocation of spend, ensuring investments are differentiated and aligned to business priorities.
• Use data and market insights to inform pay decisions, challenge assumptions, and guide trade-offs.
• Provide robust financial modelling and scenario analysis to support leadership decisions.
• Ensure compliance with local regulations, including pay transparency and disclosure requirements.

Incentive Design & Performance Alignment

• Ensure sales and non-sales incentive plans are clear, measurable, and tightly linked to business performance, with strong governance and cost discipline.
• Partner with the business and finance to develop dashboards to track performance, forecast outcomes, and assess effectiveness of plans.

Benefits Strategy

• Shape a focused, competitive, and sustainable benefits offering across the region and drive execution excellence in partnership with the US Benefits Director.
• Balance employee needs, market positioning, and cost considerations.
• Ensure strong governance and compliance across jurisdictions.

Strategic Leadership & Stakeholder Influence

• Act as a strategic partner to global and regional leadership, contributing to and shaping the direction of Total Rewards across the Group.
• Partner with stakeholders upfront to understand needs and co-create solutions, building alignment early in the process.
• Drive adoption of reward strategies through influence, engagement, and clear articulation of value—moving beyond design into sustained behavioural and organisational impact.

Transformation, Simplification & Innovation

• Co-create Total Rewards strategy in partnership with the Global CoE, ensuring regional perspectives are reflected in Group-wide frameworks.
• Balance global consistency with local relevance, ensuring solutions are not only strategically sound but also practical and embraced within the region.
• Act as a hands-on change partner in driving and embedding rewards transformation initiatives (e.g., compensation structure, incentive design, and benchmarking frameworks) to align with business strategy.
• Drive simplification and standardisation of reward programs and processes, to improve clarity and effectiveness
• Embed a data-driven approach to reward decisions aligned with Group principles and frameworks.
• Leverage technology and tools to improve delivery, transparency, and user experience—applying innovation where it adds real value.
• Bring fresh thinking and an external perspective while ensuring solutions remain practical, scalable, and aligned to business reality.

• Proven ability to shape and co-create Total Rewards strategy within a global CoE model, and translate it into impactful regional outcomes through strong influence and alignment.
• Strong collaborator who operates effectively within a global structure, contributing to enterprise-wide strategy rather than operating independently.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive adoption of strategic initiatives—not just design or execute them.
• Uses data, analytics, and critical thinking to drive informed decision-making and optimise investment outcomes.
• Strong commercial acumen, with clear understanding of how reward drives performance and business outcomes.
• Ability to navigate competing priorities and act as a trusted advisor to achieve practical, win-win solutions
• Operates effectively in transformation settings—bringing focus, simplifying complexity, and maintaining pace.
• Builds and leads high-performing, diverse teams, fostering collaboration and accountability.
• Exercises sound judgement and discretion in managing sensitive and high-impact decisions.
• Balances strategic thinking with execution—connecting both to deliver meaningful business impact.

How You Will Make an Impact

You will play a central role in co-shaping the Group’s Total Rewards agenda as part of the global CoE, while ensuring strong regional alignment and adoption through effective stakeholder partnership and influence.

Working as part of a global Total Rewards CoE, you will contribute to a collaborative and high-performing environment that values expertise, practical thinking, and continuous improvement.

• Influence how reward strategy supports business and HR transformation
• Drive discipline and clarity in compensation investment decisions
• Shape strategic reward decisions through data-driven insights and market expertise, advance the use of data, technology, and tools to improve effectiveness and transparency

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Growth and Development

You will have the opportunity to develop your skills and grow your career across our extensive portfolio of services and solutions. We believe in continuous learning to foster a skill-rich environment, satisfying your curiosity while sharing skills, knowledge, and expertise to grow together. Here, you can be yourself, and we aim to build on the attributes that make you, you.

We believe that having an understanding of the hiring process helps you to prepare, feel, and be, at your best. As a global, multi brand organization with multiple different roles, our application process can vary.

Onour career site, you will find some of the key steps you can expect to guide you along the way.

Inclusion

At the Adecco Group, we are committed to making the future work for everyone. We seek to foster a culture of belonging and purpose, shape an environment where our people are happy, healthy and feel engaged, and where difference is respected and valued. We have zero tolerance for any unlawful discrimination against any colleague, associate, candidate, or person providing services on behalf of the Adecco Group, at any stage of that person’s journey with us. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to equity, equal opportunity, inclusion, and diversity.

Accommodations

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any additional accommodations or support due to a disability or other special circumstances, please let us know by contacting us. We will work with you to ensure your needs are met throughout the hiring process.

Posting date: 05-27-2026