Global Compensation and Benefits Director

About the role

The Global Director for Compensation and Benefits is a key member of the Global HR Leadership Team at Avient. This role is responsible for shaping and elevating Avient's global total rewards strategy, ensuring programs support talent attraction, retention, and development across all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Embraces their role of change agent; living the Avient Leadership Behaviors and evolving the culture to achieve our business strategy.
• Coaches and holds their team accountable to the same.
• Drives a high-performance culture through total rewards practices that promote transparency, equity, innovation, and accountability.
• Serves as a trusted advisor to senior global leaders, developing and implementing compensation and benefits strategies that align with Avient’s business goals.
• Leverages digital tools and platforms to enhance the employee experience and streamline compensation and benefits administration.
• Identifies opportunities for automation, simplification, and improved service delivery.
• Leads and develops a global team of compensation and benefits professionals, providing coaching, feedback, and development opportunities to build a strong talent pipeline and ensure operational excellence.
• Ensures programs support talent attraction, retention, and development across all levels of the organization.
• Provides subject matter expertise and leadership in the design, governance, and execution of global compensation and benefits programs — including base pay, variable pay, equity, executive compensation, health and welfare benefits, and retirement plans.
• Partners closely with the HR team to ensure global alignment and local relevance.
• Uses data and analytics to tell a compelling story, enabling fact-based decision-making and continuous improvement across total rewards programs.
• Translates insights into actionable strategies that drive employee engagement and business outcomes.
• Leads and manages complex, high-impact projects, including compensation planning cycles, benefits harmonization, M&A integration, and global benchmarking initiatives.
• Ensures programs are scalable, sustainable, and aligned with Avient’s strategic priorities.
• Proactively manages relationships with external partners and vendors, including compensation consultants, benefits brokers, carriers, immigration and mobility programs, insurance pooling vendors, and benchmarking providers, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, finance or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in compensation and benefits, with a strong track record of designing and leading complex, enterprise-wide total rewards strategies across multiple regions and diverse employee populations.
• Experience in a global manufacturing or similarly complex, matrixed industry strongly preferred.
• Extensive expertise in executive compensation, equity programs, and global benefits strategy, with a strong understanding of regional compliance requirements and market practices and ability to prepare and present concise materials for Board of Director and Compensation Committee discussions.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to interact with individuals globally and across all organizational levels.
• Ability to work as part of a team with excellent collaboration skills across other functions and with business partners.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities including good time management skills, organizational skills, and taking accountability for tasks and issues.
• Excellent trouble-shooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to “work in the grey” and navigate complex situations in a balanced approach.
• Quick thinking, initiative taking, thirst for learning and unafraid to be out of comfort zone.
• Experience in HR systems and Microsoft Suite required, with expert-level skills in Excel, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, financial modeling, and data visualization.
• Experience with compensation benchmarking tools (e.g., Mercer) and financial planning systems.
• Ability to synthesize complex data into actionable insights for senior leadership is essential.

Pay

Final compensation within this range may vary based on factors including but not limited to background, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as geographic location of the position.

Schedule

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• life insurance
• long-term disability insurance
• short-term disability insurance
• paid time off
• paid vacation time
• paid parental leave
• paid holidays annually

Learn more about our benefits at: Career Opportunities | Avient.