Compensation Director, Field Incentives

About Sysco

Sysco is a global leader in selling, marketing, and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare, and educational facilities.

Job Summary

Reporting to the Vice President, Total Rewards, the Field Incentives Director is a strategic leader responsible for shaping and driving the enterprise-wide incentive strategy across distribution, operations, and certain sales functions. This role will focus on strategic partnerships and initiatives to ensure incentive programs are aligned with business goals, drive desired behaviors, and deliver measurable financial outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and oversee the strategic framework for field incentive programs, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives and operational needs.
• Establish governance models and performance metrics to evaluate incentive effectiveness and ROI.
• Lead the evolution of incentive design to support business transformation, growth initiatives and workforce engagement.
• Ensure programs are scalable, auditable, compliant, and adaptable to changing business needs.
• Review technology and applications to calculate field incentives, provide payment details to payroll, and support the communication of results to plan participants.

Performance Management & Analytics

• Oversee the development of advanced analytics and reporting capabilities to monitor incentive performance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Translate complex data into actionable insights that influence program design and business strategy.
• Champion a data-driven culture within the team and across stakeholder groups.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Build and maintain strong partnerships with Finance, HR, Payroll, Field Operations and Technical Teams to ensure seamless integration of incentive programs into business processes.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership on incentive-related decisions, including budgeting, forecasting and performance planning.