HR Manager, Total Rewards Position Available In DeKalb, Georgia

HR Manager, Total Rewards McMillan Pazdan Smith

LLC 1200

Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309 McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture (MPS) is seeking a Human Resources Manager – Total Rewards to lead and enhance our compensation, benefits, and job architecture programs. This role ensures that MPS remains competitive in the market while aligning total rewards strategies with our organizational goals, financial sustainability, and employee engagement. While the primary focus of this role is total rewards, the HR Manager will also contribute to broader HR initiatives, providing comprehensive HR support as needed to foster a collaborative, high-performing workplace. Key Responsibilities Total Rewards Strategy & Compensation Develop and implement compensation strategies that ensure MPS remains competitive within the market while aligning with organizational goals and financial constraints. Lead salary benchmarking and market analysis to ensure pay equity and internal consistency across job roles. Provide guidance to leadership on salary structures, pay bands, and incentive programs. Design and administer bonus and incentive programs that drive performance and recognize employee contributions. Maintain and enhance the firm’s job architecture framework, including job families, functions, levels, and titles, ensuring alignment with industry standards and firm-wide objectives. Benefits & Leave Administration Oversee and administer the firm’s employee benefits programs, ensuring they align with strategic goals and meet the diverse needs of employees. Evaluate and recommend benefit plan enhancements, ensuring cost-effectiveness and competitive offerings. Serve as the primary point of contact for benefits-related inquiries, resolving issues and providing employee education. Administer leave policies and accommodation requests, ensuring compliance with legal requirements (FMLA, ADA, etc.) and alignment with internal policies. Partner with vendors and brokers to manage benefit plans, negotiate renewals, and ensure optimal service delivery. Job Architecture & Performance Frameworks Establish clear performance expectations, job responsibilities, and competency frameworks to support both individual and team success. Partner with department leaders to ensure job descriptions are accurate, aligned with firm needs, and reflective of industry’s best practices. Support the development of career pathways and succession planning, ensuring employees have clear growth opportunities within MPS. Provide guidance on job leveling, promotions, and internal mobility to maintain a structured and transparent approach to career progression. Broad HR Support & Collaboration Provide generalist HR support as needed, assisting with employee relations, HR policy development, and workforce planning. Collaborate with the HR team to drive employee engagement initiatives, diversity and inclusion efforts, and leadership development programs. Contribute to HR technology and data management efforts, ensuring compensation, benefits, and job architecture data is accurate and accessible. Partner with finance and leadership teams to ensure HR strategies align with broader business objectives. Qualifications & Skills 5+ years of HR experience, with a strong focus on compensation, benefits, or total rewards. Experience in job architecture development and compensation strategy. Strong knowledge of benefits administration, leave policies, and compliance. HR experience in an architecture, design, engineering, or professional services firm is highly preferred. Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret compensation and benefits data to inform strategic decisions. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain total rewards concepts to employees and leadership. Proficiency in HRIS systems, compensation benchmarking tools, and Excel for data analysis. Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and work in a fast-paced, evolving environment. HR certification (e.g., SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, CCP) is a plus. Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to grasp objects; reach with hands and arms; balance, stop, kneel, or crouch; speak or listen. The employee must occasionally lift and/or carry up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Workplace Environment Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally be exposed to hazardous working conditions in conjunction with construction site visits. The noise level in the construction zone may be loud. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is not exposed to hazardous working conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. McMillan Pazdan Smith is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, color, national origin, age, disability, veteran’s status or any classification protected by state or local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this web site, please contact Human Resources at: hr@mcmillanpazdansmith.com for further assistance.