Job Purpose The VP, Global Rewards & Performance Management leads the global strategy, design, and governance of broad-based compensation, incentives, recognition, and enterprise performance management. This leader oversees global salary structures, job architecture, rewards programs, and all broad-based incentive and recognition frameworks, ensuring programs drive performance, attract and retain talent, and reinforce organizational capability building. The role partners closely with Talent, Finance, HR, and business leaders to maintain a competitive, equitable, and performance-driven global rewards ecosystem.

Why Join JCIThis is a rare opportunity to:

• Join a 140-year-new company undergoing a significant transformation powered by a lean business system and talent system engine.
• Lead within a compelling growth story with strong market trends and a right to win in decarbonization, mission critical environments, and the AI-driven economy.
• Shape an enterprise rewards and performance system from the ground up for a 90,000-employee global workforce.
• Work directly with the CHRO, business leaders, and HR leaders who view talent as essential to our win strategy.
• Build rewards and performance products that drive attraction, retention, and high performance.
• Leave a lasting enterprise legacy.

What You Will Do:

• Rewards, Incentives & Compensation Strategy• Lead global compensation strategy including salary structures, job architecture, and annual compensation cycles.

• Design and govern broad-based incentive programs across annual, sales, non-sales, and project-based incentives.

• Oversee global recognition programs that reinforce culture, performance, and engagement.

• Ensure rewards systems support capability building, mobility, and transparent career pathways.

• Maintain global compensation and incentive policies and governance.

• Compensation, Incentive Operations & Analytics

• Oversee benchmarking, competitiveness analyses, internal equity, and compensation modeling.

• Lead annual merit, incentive planning, and rewards budgeting across regions.

• Ensure incentive programs align with financial guardrails, pay philosophy, and regulatory requirements.

• Partner with HRIS to optimize systems supporting incentive plan administration, performance tracking, and reporting.

• Performance Management

• Lead global performance management strategy and execution, linking outcomes directly to rewards and incentives.

• Build performance processes that drive accountability, differentiation, and a reward-for-performance culture.

• Equip HR and leaders with tools, training, and communications for consistent performance and incentive decisions.

• Talent & Business Partnership

• Advise HR and business leaders on incentive design, rewards strategy, and performance alignment.

• Provide insights and recommendations during talent reviews, succession planning, and organizational design.

• Partner with Finance and Workforce Planning on incentive budgeting, forecasting, and workforce implications.

• Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a global rewards and performance team grounded in innovation, analytical rigor, and operational excellence.

• Build strong partnerships across Talent, HRBPs, Finance, Legal, and HR Operations to ensure cohesive enterprise execution.

• Qualifications• 10+ years of progressive experience in global compensation or total rewards with expertise in incentives and recognition.

• Experience leading enterprise-wide performance management.

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or CCP preferred.

• What Success Looks Like

• A clear enterprise-wide rewards and performance philosophy consistently applied by leaders.

• Incentives and recognition that differentiate performance and reinforce culture.

• Predictable, simplified, and well-governed global compensation and incentive cycles delivered on time.

• Strong linkage between performance, rewards, and business results.

• High confidence from CHRO, CFO, HR, and business leaders in rewards decisions and insights.

• A high-performing, analytically strong global rewards and performance team.

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