Jerry Day
Total Rewards Leader
Dripping Springs,TX
Summary
A hands-on professional with experience in all areas of total rewards and a deep understanding of broad based and executive compensation, job evaluation, salary administration, incentive plans, executive programs, performance management, global benefits and sales compensation. Experience includes mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, global compensation, development of emerging markets and legal requirements globally. Proven abilities to write and deliver effective communication and change management plans. Overview of 15 years of Organizational and People Management Expertise
Overview
5
5
years of post-secondary education
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Total Rewards Consulting Partner
Shoebox Strategies
Austin, TX
10.2019 - Current
- Contributed to success of client's organization by improving performance, motivation, job satisfaction, hiring practices, training programs and management systems.
- Delivered targeted advise on issues such as applicable employment regulations, compensation strategies and internal systems to help companies update antiquated or ineffective approaches..
- Provide leadership with independent assessment of reasonableness and market competitiveness of their compensation (base salary, annual incentives, benefits, and wellness) for employees in public and private sectors.
- Lead annual review of executive compensation plans, leveraging peer benchmarking, market pricing, and total cost impact in preparation for review with compensation committees.
- Provide overall project management to complete board materials for quarterly compensation committee board meetings including timelines, calendar prep, agenda, and resolutions.
- Partner with senior leaders in client organizations and HR business partners to drive and ensure success of annual programs (e.g.
- Merit increases, stock awards, recognition awards).
- Act as business partner, problem solver, and play roles in creation, negotiation, and review of compensation programs and business rules.
- Consults on 401K and retirement savings plan operation and administration issues and makes recommendations to management team on problem resolution.
- Assistance with 401K VCP issues.
- Develop and review compensation and benefits processes, policies and practices, producing analytical reports to support recommendations or initiatives.
- Advised managers and employees on state and federal employment regulations, collective agreements and classification programs.
- Researched job and worker requirements, occupational trends and structural and functional relationships among jobs and occupations.
Sr Director, HR Total Rewards
CLEAResults
Austin, TX
02.2019 - 10.2019
- Total Rewards CLEAResult Provided direction and oversite of corporations total rewards program, $50+M payroll, 10+M of health and welfare benefits, and 200+M of retirement benefits.
- Top HR executive, developed total rewards strategy aligning business needs while balancing cultural fit.
- Defined compensation and benefits strategy to position organization as employer of choice focused on attracting, developing, and retaining top talent.
- Executive compensation strategy with blended incentive compensation that provides executives with cash incentives in short-term and long-term incentives tying executives to company performance.
- Worked with compensation committee to evolve compensation and benefits philosophy, strategy, gain alignment and adjust practices.
- Provided guidance to leadership and HR teams on pay decisions, policy and guideline interpretation and job evaluation designing creative solutions to specific compensation-related programs.
- Leveraged technology by adopting best practices to improve overall HR efficiency and deliver actionable analytics.
Sr Director, Total Rewards
AECOM
City Of Los Angeles, CA
01.2014 - 12.2018
- Delivered targeted advise on issues such as applicable employment regulations, compensation strategies and internal systems to help companies update antiquated or ineffective approaches. Developed total rewards strategy aligning employee rewards with results that advance corporate and line of business objectives.
- Development of all global compensation, equity and benefit plans, policies and programs targeted at retaining competitive position and maximizing employee productivity, employee engagement and retention.
- Designed executive compensation plan including market based salary review, annual incentives, long-term incentives, benefits, perquisites and severance/change-in-control agreements.
- Develop benchmarking compensation plans in emerging markets of Africa, APAC, EMEA, and North America.
- In addition to developed regions, expertise specifically in developing countries and country regions.
- Africa: Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda.
- APAC: Southeast Asia, China, and Philippines.
- Latin America: Bolivia, Brazil, and Columbia.
- Understanding of ERISA, SEC, 409a, Say on Pay and other government regulations that govern compensation and executive benefits programs.
- Directed broad-based global compensation program design that includes global compensation philosophy, global pay structures and framework for over 50 countries, short-term and long-term incentives.
- Compensation responsibilities included executive compensation, base and total cash compensation programs, job evaluation, performance management programs and long-term incentive programs.
- Compensation Committee and Board Experience.
- Monitored trends/best practices, both internally and externally and made recommendations towards implementation and improvement.
Director of Global Compensation and Benefits
UTI
Long Beach, CA
04.2011 - 01.2014
- Global team that oversaw compensation and benefits programs, for over 20,000 employees, in both corporate and field locations.
- Operations in 62 countries globally and represented in all regions, including APAC, EMENA, Americas, and Africa.
- Developed and implemented global merit process, corporate bonus and LTI programs.
- Strategic HR leadership team partner ensuring all compensation and benefit programs aligned with strategic high performance culture
- Aligned Compensation and Benefits programs for global acquisitions.
- Multinational pooling benefits program combining policies from multiple countries
- Directed and rolled out global job classification and pay grade strategy.
- Compensation responsibilities included executive compensation, deferred compensation, base and total cash compensation programs, job evaluation, performance management programs and long-term incentive programs.
- Designed and delivered benefit presentations to HR, employees, and managers to increase understanding of benefit plan offerings and enrollment, support effective utilization, and promote value of benefits.
Compensation and Benefits Consultant
Associated Compensation
City of Los Angeles, CA
12.2006 - 04.2011
- Delivered targeted advise on issues such as applicable employment regulations, compensation strategies and internal systems to help companies update antiquated or ineffective approaches.
- Designed communication and planning for global compensation initiatives.
- Developed change management to deliver changes in compensation plans and introduced grading structures.
- Implementation of performance management and talent management systems that included: SAP, ADP and Workday.
- Effectively designed and implemented Executive pay for performance programs.
- Designed benefits packages for large group clients of over 10K employees by establishing organization's needs, identifying budgetary limitations and proposing innovative methods to cut costs.
- Explained benefits to plan participants in easy to understand terms in order to educate each on available options.
Education
BS - Business Management
Pepperdine University
Malibu, CA 01.1992 - 01.1997
Skills
Employee rewards and motivation
Timeline
Total Rewards Consulting Partner
Shoebox Strategies
10.2019 - Current
Sr Director, HR Total Rewards
CLEAResults
02.2019 - 10.2019
Sr Director, Total Rewards
AECOM
01.2014 - 12.2018
Director of Global Compensation and Benefits
UTI
04.2011 - 01.2014
Compensation and Benefits Consultant
Associated Compensation
12.2006 - 04.2011
BS - Business Management
Pepperdine University
01.1992 - 01.1997
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