TR Strategy & Portfolio Acceleration Lead

Job Description The Total Rewards (TR) Strategy & Portfolio Acceleration Lead translates TR priorities into an integrated business plan, operating cadence, portfolio roadmap, and measurable results. This role supports the VP of Total Rewards and the TR Leadership Team (TRLT) in organizing and running the function, improving execution discipline, and maintaining transparency across TR initiatives. The role serves as a strategic business-planning partner across TR and its ecosystem, coordinating with other HR centers of expertise, field HR, Finance, Legal, Communications, and enterprise business planners. The successful candidate will connect strategy to execution by managing planning processes, tracking milestones and risks, preparing executive-ready materials, and helping teams make informed trade-offs on priorities, resources, timing, and outcomes.   This role operates with broad autonomy on complex, cross-functional assignments and uses strong business acumen, analytical judgment, and influence without authority to drive measurable outcomes across TR and partnering functions. The role contributes to the development and execution of TR strategy; it does not independently own enterprise-wide TR strategy or function-wide strategic direction.   Key responsibilities Business planning and portfolio management • Execute the TR business-planning process, including annual and quarterly planning, operating reviews, budget reviews, roadmap updates, and results tracking. • Maintain an integrated TR portfolio view that connects priorities, initiatives, business cases, milestones, dependencies, resources, benefits, and risks. • Facilitate prioritization discussions with the TRLT and initiative owners to focus capacity on the highest-impact work and support timely decisions when priorities or conditions change. • Develop and maintain initiative and project business cases, including expected deliverables, benefits, timing, resource needs, measures of success, and key assumptions. • Analyze progress against the TR plan and roadmap, identify variances and emerging risks, and recommend practical actions to improve delivery. • Coordinate with HR, Finance, Legal, Communications, and other business planners to align plans, dependencies, budgets, and enterprise timelines. • Support TR budget planning and tracking, including preparation of operating and budget review materials and monitoring of spend against plan. • Research market trends, external practices, and potential partners to inform recommendations and identify opportunities for improvement, investment, or rationalization within the TR portfolio. Operating cadence and leadership support • Support the VP of Total Rewards and TRLT in the organization and running of the function, including staff meetings, leadership meetings, TR all-hands, operating reviews, and special assignments. • Establish and manage action-item, decision, milestone, and risk-tracking mechanisms that create accountability and transparency across TR. • Prepare and deliver concise, executive-ready presentations, dashboards, recommendations, and other materials for TR leaders and business partners. • Represent TR planning and portfolio perspectives in selected cross-functional forums and meetings, serving as a reliable point of coordination for the VP of Total Rewards and TRLT as requested. • Help develop annual TR OKRs and establish a practical cadence for monitoring progress, surfacing barriers, and adjusting plans. • Facilitate discussions, ensure decisions are captured, and follow through outside the room to move work forward. Execution, governance, and continuous improvement • Lead or coordinate complex planning and portfolio initiatives that span multiple TR teams, HR functions, and enterprise partners.