What are the responsibilities and job description for the Total Rewards Specialist position at GG BRANDS COMPANY?
What’s in it for you?
Gorilla Glue has been recognized as a top place to work for 15 years in a row, thanks to our commitment to creating a supportive and engaged workplace culture. We offer competitive compensation packages, comprehensive healthcare benefits, and other perks and incentives to ensure our employees feel valued and supported.
Joining the Gorilla Glue family means being part of a team passionate about building strong brands and promoting a culture of excellence. As an employee, you'll be able to help create high-quality products and build brands that people love. Join us in an inspiring workplace where you can belong, grow, and make a difference.
Summary Description:
The Total Rewards Specialist serves as the enterprise owner of total rewards reporting, analytics, and operational insight across the HR lifecycle, including compensation, benefits, payroll, and recognition programs. This role transforms HR data into decision-ready insights, ensures operational readiness across compensation, benefits, payroll, and recognition programs, and enables automation and process optimization through system design and agentic solutions.
What will your day look like?
Enterprise HR Reporting & Analytics
- Own all HR reporting and analytics, including the monthly Talent Report for GLT (Global Leadership Team).
- Ensure data integrity across HRIS, compensation, benefits, payroll, and recognition systems.
- Translate complex HR data into clear executive-ready insights and narratives.
Compensation & Benefits Operational Support
- Prepare compensation analyses including market pricing, internal equity reviews, and ad hoc modeling.
- Pull, analyze, and interpret benefits utilization and cost reports
- Own the I-9 Re-validation process
- Serve as back-up to for our LOA process
Awardco Program Oversight
- Serve as system administrator for AwardCo program governance, reporting, and budget monitoring.
- Partner with Payroll on point-to-payroll reconciliation.
- Identify trends and recommend program improvements based on recognition data.
Payroll Partnership & Reporting
- Maintain working knowledge of payroll processes, timing, and controls.
- Support payroll-related reporting, auditing, and analytics.
- Act as a bridge between Payroll, Compensation, and HR systems.
Process Optimization & Automation
- Identify manual or repetitive HR processes suitable for automation.
- Build or manage automation tools, agentic solutions, or workflow bots to support reporting, monitoring, and self-service analytics.
- Partner across HR and HRIS to scale and optimize efficient solutions
What will you bring to the table?
- HR experience, including management of the full HR lifecycle in a small to mid-size organization (or equivalent scope within a larger enterprise) preferred.
- Hands-on experience in HR reporting, analytics, and data interpretation, including executive-level reporting and dashboarding.
- Strong analytical, reporting, and data storytelling skills.
- Demonstrated experience with HRIS, compensation analytics, and benefits reporting.
- Comfort operating as a senior individual contributor with enterprise-facing accountability.
- Ability to identify and implement process improvements and automation solutions.
- High discretion and ability to handle confidential information.
- Maintains a mindset of curiosity and experimentation, actively seeking opportunities to leverage AI and advanced analytics to transform HR data into scalable, decision-ready insights and streamlined processes.
Company Values:
Adhere to Gorilla Glue Company’s Core Values that ensure everyone works together to exceed expectations.
- Have fun, be passionate and show it!
- Act with integrity and respect in all relationships.
- Communicate openly and appreciate the efforts of others.
- Embrace knowledge, growth and change.
- Strive for excellence in what we do every day!
Are you ready to join one of Cincinnati’s Top Workplaces? Our employees love working here because of our environment, which is driven by our company mission and core values. If you have the right qualifications and thrive in a fun and fast-paced environment, we have a great opportunity for you to grow with us!