Eric Neumann

About Eric Neumann

An accomplished TOTAL REWARDS AND HRIS LEADER who loves building, fixing, and leading global corporate compensation, benefits, HRIS, and payroll functions. Has deep experience providing compensation consulting for Fortune 500, global, mid-size, and private firms. Builds strong relationships with Boards and Compensation / Human Capital Committees. Designs and implements total reward strategy/philosophy and programs that achieve business goals and drive company performance. Implements HRIS, leads the function, gets the most out of technology to meet real business needs, and brings data analytics to organizations. A committed servant leader who develops teams makes them more successful and expands their impact across the organization. Major strengths include strategic human capital thinking, broad and deep total rewards knowledge, executive & board relationship building, excellent analytical skills, driving process efficiencies, and project leadership. Core Competencies: • Total Rewards Philosophy Creation & Implementation• Executive Compensation• Board of Directors / Compensation Committees• Broad-Based Employee Compensation• Global Compensation• Employee Benefits• HRIS Operations & Implementation• Strategy Development and Alignment• Project Management and Program Implementation / Communication• Building and Developing Compensation Teams• Software Implementation• Short-Term Incentives (STI)/ Bonus• Long-Term Incentives (LTI)/ Equity• Sales Compensation• Job Architecture Development & Implementation• Private Company / Pre-IPO Compensation• Compensation Management• M&A Due Diligence & Integration• Process Analyses / Optimization• Talent Development & Review• Compensation Consulting

Experience

1. Sr Director (Head of), Compensation, Benefits & Hris

   APTIM

   Sep 2021 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Leading / building / transforming the compensation, benefits, & HRIS, functions for a private equity backed engineering and construction company (spun-off from Chicago Bridge & Iron:$6.7B revenues, employees), specializing in critical infrastructure, environmental services, sustainability, and energy solutions ($1.5B+revenues, employees in the U.S, Canada, Peru). Direct report to CHRO.I\'m creating a compensation / total rewards philosophy and employee value proposition, creating accurate job descriptions for all positions, fixing current job mapping architecture, systematically understanding labor markets for all jobs / locations, evaluating potential surveys in detail for greatest impact / utility, implementing a market data analyses software, creating new improved compensation analyses, building / modeling base pay ranges [with geographic differentials], presenting analyses / recommendations to PE Board of Directors, and implementing pay transparency, for the first time in the organization’s history.$500M+ compensation spend. Redesigned incentives [sales compensation, key proposals / business development, annual project management, annual senior management / executive STI]. Re-wrote all incentive plan documents / employee statements to professional standards. Managed all payout calculations and employee communications. Managing employee H&W benefits (U.S. and Canada) through the unique Alight Marketplace platform to bring substantial choices to employees in all locations [in the U.S: 20 regions, 12 carriers, 5 metallic levels, 3,600 premium rates], and through CBIZ (for union employees). Bringing improved communications tools / programs to underserved field employees (and their families) not in front of a company computer. Managing four 401(k) plans (Chair of the Investment Committee) with $295M+ in assetsCreated detailed cost/benefit analyses with the CIO for PE owners, for selecting and implementing a new ERP system.

Education

• Cornell University

  BS, Industrial & Labor Relations

  1991 — 1996

• Mays Business School - Texas A&M University

  Executive MBA

Skills

• Labor Relations
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Executive Pay
• Strategy
• Human Resources Information Systems (Hris)
• Compensation
• Employee Benefits
• Hris
• Executive Compensation Planning
• Incentives
• Training
• Workforce Planning
• HR Consulting
• Deferred Compensation
• Compensation
• Human Resources
• Total Rewards Strategies
• Leadership
• Talent Management
• Mergers
• Compensation & Benefit
• Compensation & Benefits
• Job Analysis
• Personnel Management
• Performance Management