VP of HR Ops

Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

Company

hirify.global Scientific is an international life sciences company providing analytical testing, clinical diagnostics, and research services across food, environmental, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and other industries.

What you will do

• Lead U.S. payroll operations for approximately 13,500 employees across multiple states, legal entities, pay frequencies, and business units.
• Oversee health and welfare, retirement, leave, wellness, voluntary, and self-insured medical and dental benefit programs.
• Manage executive compensation programs, including incentives, deferred compensation, equity or phantom equity awards, and executive benefits.
• Maintain payroll, benefits, executive compensation, compliance, audit, reporting, and internal control processes.
• Lead payroll and benefits teams, manage vendors and brokers, and partner with HR, Finance, Legal, HRIS, IT, Operations, and external advisors.
• Drive system optimization, process automation, open enrollment, compliance remediation, and payroll and benefits activities for mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, and new entities.

Requirements

• Work location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 10 years of progressive payroll, benefits, HR operations, finance operations, or total rewards experience, including team leadership.
• Experience leading payroll and benefits for a complex, multi-state U.S. workforce, preferably with several thousand employees.
• Deep knowledge of U.S. payroll tax, wage and hour rules, W-2 and ACA reporting, ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, FMLA, and related compliance requirements.
• Experience with executive compensation, self-insured medical and dental plans, vendors, audits, systems, data controls, and cross-functional process improvement.

Nice to have

• CPP, CEBS, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, CPA, or similar certification.
• Experience with Workday, UKG, ADP, Dayforce, Oracle, SAP SuccessFactors, or similar HCM and payroll platforms.
• Experience with decentralized operations, field-based workforces, shared services, multiple legal entities, or acquisition activity.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a geographically dispersed and diverse employee population.
• Support inclusive, equitable, and accessible payroll and benefits practices.
• International opportunities are available to strong performers.
• Additional areas of responsibility may be offered based on geographic mobility.