Director – Incentive Compensation

Director, Incentive Compensation

About Site

Catalent’s Bridgewater, New Jersey site is a modern facility that serves as a hub for innovation and collaboration. The location brings together talented professionals in a dynamic environment focused on advancing drug development and delivery solutions. With state-of-the-art laboratories and office spaces, the site supports a wide range of scientific and operational functions, fostering teamwork and continuous learning. Its strategic setting in the heart of New Jersey’s life sciences corridor provides access to a vibrant professional community and industry resources, making it an ideal place for those passionate about driving meaningful impact in healthcare.

Position Summary

The Director of Incentive Compensation is responsible for the strategy, design, implementation of an IT tool, and administration of enterprise-wide sales compensation and incentive programs. This role will support target setting and ensures alignment between compensation plans and corporate revenue goals, drives sales performance, and maintains operational accuracy, scalability, and compliance.

This leader partners closely with Sales, Finance, HR, and Operations to optimize compensation structures that motivate performance while supporting financial objectives.

Location: Bridgewater, NJ or BWI - onsite 4 days/week

The Role

· Lead the development of annual and quarterly incentive compensation strategies aligned to company revenue goals.

· Design sales compensation plans (Targets, commission, bonus structures) across all go-to-market roles.

· Evaluate plan effectiveness using performance analytics and recommend adjustments.

· Ensure alignment between compensation plans and strategic priorities (e.g., growth segments, new product adoption, margin expansion).

· Oversee end-to-end compensation operations including target setting, plan deployment, crediting rules, and payouts.

· Ensure timely, accurate calculation and distribution of commissions and incentives.

· Implement a compensation systems (e.g., SPIFF) and related tools.

· Establish and maintain scalable processes as the organization grows.

· Develop reporting and dashboards to track sales performance vs. compensation outcomes.

· Analyze plan effectiveness, cost of sales, pay-for-performance alignment, and ROI of incentive programs.

· Support executive leadership with insights and recommendations.

· Ensure compliance with legal, audit, and financial controls related to incentive compensation.

· Maintain documentation of compensation plans, policies, and procedures.

· Partner with Finance on accruals, forecasting, and budgeting for commissions.

· Partner with Sales Leadership to align compensation plans with business objectives and territory strategies.

· Collaborate with Finance on compensation expense planning and headcount modeling.

· Work closely with HR on job architecture, career progression, and pay equity considerations.

· Build and lead a high-performing incentive compensation team.

· Establish clear priorities, performance expectations, and professional development plans.

· All other duties as assigned.

The Candidate

· Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Business, Finance, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.

· Minimum of 5 years of experience in sales compensation, finance, or sales operations.

· Deep expertise in incentive compensation design and sales performance management.

· Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel and data modeling capability.

· Experience with compensation management platforms (e.g. SPIFF).

· Familiarity with quota setting methodologies and territory design.

· Strong understanding of Salesforce adoption, sales methodology, qualification, pipeline discipline, and commercial enablement.

· Ability to influence leaders and cross-functional partners through clear expectations, practical training, credible expertise, and a collaborative style.

· Strong facilitation, instructional design, communication, change management, analytical, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Pay

The anticipated salary range for this position in NJ is $180-$220k + annual bonus target. The final salary offered to a successful candidate may vary, and will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: the type and length of experience within the job, type and length of experience within the industry, skillset, education, business needs, etc. Catalent is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states.

Why You Should Join Catalent

· Competitive Paid Time Off plus 8 paid holidays.

· Medical, dental, and vision coverage options.

· Generous 401(k) match.

· Tuition reimbursement.

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

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