Role 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 role oversees global salary structures job architecture rewards programs and all broad-based incentive and recognition frameworksensuring programs drive performance attract and retain talent and reinforce organizational capability building. Reporting to the VP Global Talent & Rewards the VP partners with Talent Finance HR and business leaders to maintain a competitive equitable and performance-driven global rewards ecosystem.
Why Join JCI Now
This 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
Be a leader in a compelling growth story backed by strong market trends and a right to win in 3 verticals decarbonization mission critical environments and AI driven economy with explosive data center growth
Shape an enterprise talent and rewards system at scale (90000 employees globally) from the ground up
Partner directly with CHRO Business Leaders and HR Leaders who believe talent is a key part of our winning formula
Build rewards and performance products that will ensure we attract and retain talent and drive high performance
Leave a lasting enterprise legacy
What you will own:
Rewards Incentives & Compensation Strategy
Lead the global strategy and design for broad-based compensation including salary structures job architecture and annual compensation cycles.
Drive the design and governance of broad-based incentive programs (annual incentives sales/non-sales incentives project-based or other incentives).
Oversee enterprise-wide recognition programs that reinforce culture performance and employee engagement.
Ensure rewards incentives and recognition frameworks support global capability building career pathways and internal mobility.
Maintain global compensation and incentive policies governance and compliance.
Compensation Incentive Operations & Analytics
Oversee market benchmarking incentive competitiveness analyses internal equity and compensation modeling.
Oversee annual merit incentive planning and rewards budgeting processes across all geographies.
Ensure incentive programs align with pay philosophy financial guardrails and regulatory requirements.
Partner with HRIS to optimize systems and tools for incentive plan management performance tracking and reporting.
Performance Management
Lead enterprise performance management strategy andexecution linking performance outcomes directly to incentives and rewards.
Design performance processes to strengthen accountability differentiation and reward-for-performance culture.
Equip HR and leaders with tools training and communication to support consistent performance and incentive decisions.
Talent & Business Partnership
Serve as a strategic advisor to HR and business leaders on incentive design rewards strategy and performance alignment.
Provide compensation and incentive guidance in talent reviews succession discussions and organizational design work.
Partner with Finance and Workforce Planning on incentive budgeting forecasting and workforce implications.
Team Leadership
Lead and develop a global rewards and performance team fostering innovation analytical rigor and operational excellence.
Build strong partnerships across Talent HR Business Partners Finance Legal and HR Operations to ensure cohesive execution.
Ideal Background and Experiences:
10 years of progressive experience in global compensation or total rewards with expertise in incentive and recognition programs.
Experience with enterprise performance management strategy.
Bachelors degree required; advanced degree or CCP preferred.
Leadership Attributes & Behaviors
Enterprise-first strategic and analytical thinker who approaches problems systemically and uses data-driven insights to inform decisions
Courageous leader with a strong drive to win willing to challenge legacy thinking and reinforce accountability for performance
Domain-credible operator with the ability to design govern and scale complex global systems in matrixed environments
Decisive executor who balances rigor with pragmatism and brings disciplined operational and governance mindset
Clear influential communicator who builds trust and effectively engages executives leaders and teams at all levels
Talent-focused leader who attracts develops and mobilizes high-performing teams and builds organizational capability
Comfortable leading through ambiguity transformation and change while meeting the business where it is
Behaviors expected of all JCI colleagues:
We Focus on What Matters: We go to Gemba to learn closest to where the work happens so that we can remove obstacles and deliver for our customers where it really matters.
We Win as One Team: We deliberately think and act in ways that welcome different perspectives build trust remove silos and help each other navigate change in service of winning more customers.
We Improve Everyday: We seek the truth with humility surface problems early and challenge each other with candor and respect to solve customer problems through continuous improvement.
We Own the Outcome: We take accountability and decisive action translating strategy into actions that win the right way with safety and integrity first.
What Success Looks Like
Clear enterprise-wide rewards and performance philosophy that leaders understand and apply consistently
Incentives and recognition that visibly differentiate performance and reinforce culture
Simplified well-governed global compensation and incentive cycles delivered on time and within guardrails
Strong linkage between performance outcomes 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
First 12 months
Align current-state rewards incentives performance management and governance globally
Align leaders on target-state rewards and performance philosophy and priorities
Stabilize and improve annual merit cycle and incentive plan performance
Establish clear governance decision rights and financial guardrails
Build credibility as a trusted advisor to executive team HR and Finance
Assess and strengthen the global rewards and performance team
24 months
Scaled modern global rewards and performance ecosystem fully implemented
Clear performance differentiation consistently tied to incentives and outcomes
Rewards actively supporting capability building mobility and retention
Predictable efficient global processes enabled by strong systems and analytics
Rewards insights embedded in talent reviews workforce planning and succession
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