Vice President, Total Rewards

At GDIT, we are passionate about creating a supportive and dynamic workplace where employees thrive and feel inspired to contribute their best. Our employee care initiatives are central to driving a culture of engagement, recognition, and belonging. ​ 

We’re looking for a visionary leader to lead our Total Rewards team, shaping and executing GDIT’s compensation and benefits strategy, ensuring competitive programs to attract and reward our future-ready workforce.   

If you’re a creative, people-focused leader who is inspired by designing meaningful rewards programs that meet the needs of a uniquely skilled and mission-driven workforce, we want to meet you. 

Role Overview

The Vice President for Total Rewards will lead the organization’s compensation and benefits strategy, ensure regulatory compliance, and partner with General Dynamics Corporate and other GD business units on Corporate-wide initiatives. This leader will also oversee incentive programs and merit cycles, manage enterprise-wide wellness initiatives, leaves of absence, paid time off and recognition programs and routinely evaluate market intelligence on industry metrics and compensation trends. This role will serve as a key partner to finance and business leaders to ensure rewards align with organizational strategy and priorities.

This role strategically integrates essential functions under total rewards:

Compensation: Design and maintain competitive compensation frameworks to include salary structures, incentive frameworks and coordinating executive compensation. Direct merit, promotion and short and long-term incentive planning, governing bonuses and performance-based rewards aligned with business outcomes. Conduct benchmarking analysis and compensation trend reporting to ensure decisions are data-driven, equitable and strategically aligned.

Benefits: Partner with General Dynamics Corporate and other GD business units to design, evolve and deliver health and welfare programs, and identify strategic opportunities for unique and competitive benefits programs to attract and retain top talent.

Workplace Accommodations: Develop thoughtful, innovative solutions to ensure employees with various needs are accommodated and empowered.

Employee Recognition (Bravo!): Lead initiatives that celebrate our workforce, reinforce our company’s values, and promote a sense of community.

Wellness: Develop an enterprise-wide strategy across mental, financial, social and physical dimensions. Build offerings that enhance the wellbeing and performance of a standout and future-ready workforce.

Leaves of Absence Management and Paid Time Off Programs: Short and long-term medical and personal absences, paid time off, Workers’ Compensation, and military leaves.

As a key partner to the leadership team, this role is critical to ensuring we maintain a destination workplace for exceptional talent and maintain our position as an employer-of-choice.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Program Development

• Design and implement rewards strategies, setting long-term vision for compensation, benefits, wellness, and recognition programs

• Partnering with General Dynamics benefits on enterprise-wide programs

• Serve as a thought partner to senior leadership on rewards philosophy, market trends, and strategic talent investment

• Enforce compliance with regulatory requirements

• Champion wellness programs that support employee wellbeing and engagement

• Analyze programs routinely to ensure we remain competitive in acquiring and retaining top talent

Compensation

• Design and maintain well-defined job families and compensation frameworks that ensure competitiveness and internal equity

• Govern incentive plans to include bonus frameworks and performance-based rewards aligned to business outcomes

• Lead benchmarking and associated analysis to ensure compensation decisions are data-driven, equitable and aligned with business needs

Workplace Accommodations

• Manage workplace accommodations efforts, ensuring compliance with applicable laws (e.g., ADA) while fostering organizational agility.

• Proactively address employee accommodation needs and implement innovative solutions to remove barriers to productivity and inclusivity.

Recognition & Engagement

• Lead and refine the employee recognition program to honor outstanding employee contributions aligned with the company culture and values.

• Consult with internal stakeholders on innovative approaches to address enterprise-wide engagement strategies.

Benefits

• Partner with General Dynamics on enterprise health and welfare programs

• Lead strategy for GDIT benefits programs to ensure competitiveness, cost effectiveness, and alignment with business priorities

• Oversee vendor partnerships and contracts to deliver high-value benefits to meet the needs of our differentiated workforce

Wellness

• Develop an enterprise wellbeing strategy that integrates mental, financial, social and physical wellness to support a resilient, high-performing workforce

• Drive adoption, measure impact and partner with the business to ensure wellness initiatives enhance the employee experience, attract and retain talent, and enhance our culture

Merger & Acquisitions

• Provide Total Reward leadership for M&A due diligence, integration and harmonization, ensuring alignment with GDIT compensation and benefits strategies

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field (or equivalent experience)

• Minimum 10+ years of progressive leadership experience managing large-scale Total Rewards programs

• US Person

• Deep knowledge of compensation and benefits strategies and related compliance requirements

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in HR, Organizational Leadership, or a related discipline.

• Experience leading enterprise-wide benefits, compensation, and employee recognition programs.

• Background in cross-functional collaboration for large, dispersed, or global enterprises

Skills & Competencies:

• High emotional intelligence with the ability to address sensitive matters confidentially and diplomatically.

• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels.

• Strong analytical and decision-making skills; able to guide data-driven improvements.

• Forward-thinking and agile, with the ability to balance compliance needs with creative solutions.

• Proven leadership skills, with experience mentoring, inspiring, and scaling high-performing teams.