Associate Director, Total Rewards
Posted Sep 28, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you educated HR business partners or recruiters on a compensation approach.
What they are checking: Whether they can teach HR partners and recruiters how compensation works, so decisions are made consistently across the business.
Tell me about a time your data on turnover or engagement changed a rewards decision.
What they are checking: Whether they use turnover and engagement data to influence rewards decisions, rather than designing programs based on assumptions.
Describe a time you had to deliver a recommendation leaders didn't want to hear.
What they are checking: Whether they will give senior leaders an unwelcome recommendation clearly and persuasively, since compensation advice often involves saying no.
What would you do
A business leader wants a big offer for a candidate that breaks the pay range. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Whether they can meet a business need without breaking pay structure and equity, since one exception can ripple across the whole team.
How do you adapt a global rewards framework to different countries?
What they are checking: Whether they can adapt a global framework to local law and markets, without losing the consistency that makes it work.
About the work
How would you make sure total rewards for the Allergan Aesthetics business stay market-competitive?
What they are checking: Whether they know how to benchmark pay against the right market data, so the aesthetics business can hire and keep good people.
Walk me through how you model a rewards scenario before you recommend it to leaders.
What they are checking: Whether they model costs and effects of a rewards change before recommending it, so leaders see the trade-offs clearly.
How do you manage benchmark survey submissions and decide which surveys to rely on?
What they are checking: Whether they understand survey methods and data quality, since benchmarks are only as good as the job matching behind them.
How do you check for pay equity, and what do you do when you find a gap?
What they are checking: Whether they run sound pay equity analysis and act on gaps, which carries both legal risk and real fairness consequences.
Aesthetics has a large sales force. What do you think matters most in designing sales incentives there?
What they are checking: Whether they understand sales incentive design for a large commercial team, where poor plans quickly drive the wrong behavior.
How do you keep rewards programs compliant as pay transparency laws spread?
What they are checking: Whether they track spreading pay transparency laws and adjust programs ahead of time, so the company stays compliant in every state.
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