Role

We are in search of a Vice President Total Rewards to play a key leadership role in driving our company’s strategy and transformation to enable short and long-term business performance, both organic and inorganic growth, through innovative global rewards policy, programs, and practices which also attract, retain, and engage talent. The position will report to the Chief Human Resources Officer with a preferred location of Santa Clara, CA.

Skills, Knowledge, Experience & Education

At Applied Materials, Make Possible® is about unlocking new opportunities – with our customers and within our own company.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

Strategic and visible member of the global HR executive team. Provides leadership, solutions and results that fully enable Applied Materials to meet our strategic priorities and operational targets, while driving global HR strategies, priorities, and HR policy.

Partners with the Applied Materials’ Board of Directors, Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, business and function leaders, and external stakeholders, partners, and shareholders to drive corporate performance and total rewards strategy.

Provides strategic vision (3-5-year time horizon), leadership, and operational excellence as a change agent, to develop and implement strategic total rewards (executive compensation, broad based compensation, sales compensation, benefits, recognition programs, paid time off, flexible work arrangements, etc.) that drive performance, engagement and retention across the company and enable shareholder value in the marketplace.

Ensures talent attraction and retention, with a keen focus on technical talent, and successful integration of mergers and acquisitions. Embraces and builds a culture of innovation and inclusion. Provides high-quality consultative service to internal customers in addition to continuous improvement, and optimal program operational effectiveness.

Delivers a transparent global communications approach to promote understanding of our total rewards philosophy to ensure employee engagement and performance.

Plays a lead role in the delivery of our global HR Service Delivery Model, along with all members of the HR leadership team

Key Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will drive the development and execution of the Global Rewards strategy globally. The role will be accountable for conceptualizing a vision for global total rewards and enterprise performance measurement to ensure pay for performance that align to the long-term Total Rewards strategy globally.

Partner with the CEO and the CHRO to ensure the overall global total rewards strategies and programs are designed and created in a way to deliver our long-term business strategy, are in line with our compensation philosophy, are supported by our shareowners and comply with all regulatory requirements

Partnering with the CEO, Compensation Committee and the CHRO, advises Board of Directors, CEO, executive team, and HR leadership team on all rewards programs including compensation and benefits per corporate governance requirements.

Works with the Board, CEO, CFO, CHRO to determine which key financial performance metrics best align to the long-term business strategy for the enterprise and named officers, and the integration with total rewards strategies.

Lead our Executive and Enterprise Pay for Performance Philosophy and model to drive business strategy and attract and retain global talent.

Set the strategic direction for the design and delivery of our health and wellness programs to optimize the efficient use of budget and foster a healthy work environment.

Set the strategic direction for the design and delivery of our 401k/retirement plans

Coordinate and facilitate consultation with stakeholders to define business requirements (financial, talent, innovation, etc.) of mergers/acquisitions/joint ventures and determine how best to set performance metrics with aligned total rewards to deliver those requirements.

We are a catalyst to unlock the power of our customers’ ideas and are committed to overcoming challenges that seem insurmountable.

To succeed in this role requires a capacity for complexity and temperament that includes:

A very mature individual with the right balance of confidence and humility.

Process oriented while also strongly developing and relying on interpersonal relationships across the company

Ability to connect equally well upwards, downwards and sideways in the organization

Self-motivated and driven towards excellence

A high level of EQ to be able to manage across a large team with significant diversity

Analyzing, processing and decision-making based on multidisciplinary and multi-functional data sources that could frequently be incomplete.

Ability to distinguish between and prioritizing urgent and important issues

Situational awareness and complex decision-making ability appropriate for the situation

Qualifications

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Additional Information

Time Type:

Full time

Employee Type:

Assignee / Regular

Travel:

Yes, 25% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:

Yes

U.S. Salary Range:

$280,000.00 - $385,000.00

The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.