Cengage Group · 7 hours ago

Compensation Consultant

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

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Rachel LeBar

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Responsibilities

Assist in the development, implementation and maintenance of competitive compensation programs, practices and policies that support organizational and departmental strategic objectives.

Collaborate with and provide expert compensation consultation to HR Partners and business leaders.

Develop, maintain, and deliver effective communications and training to HR, leaders, and employees to build awareness and understanding of programs.

Assist in creating analysis, presentations and recommendations for the Executive Team, HR Leadership Team, Board Compensation Committee, Total Rewards Committee, and others.

Perform sophisticated analytics to identify trends, problems, root causes and make recommendations to address.

Manage compensation data organization, maintenance, and use, including salary survey research, analysis, and submission.

Maintain job matching database (PayFactors), partner with survey tool vendor and leverage Workday reporting to run and upload data. Work with HR Partners to ensure accuracy of all job matches.

Evaluate and analyze employee compensation and market data, determine FLSA status, compensation level, short or long-term compensation eligibility and make pay recommendations aligned with overall compensation philosophy and competitive market pay.

Develop and coordinate market adjustment, in-line promotion, and annual merit increase programs to include analysis of market data, position-to-market, trends budgets, pay differentials. Build project plans and communications materials to ensure efficient compensation team collaboration and support HR and leaders through these processes.

Assist with annual review and ongoing maintenance of job and salary structure including the creation of job families, job codes and job titles.

Build compensation tools and resources and maintain compensation information in company systems and portals.

Participate in project teams associated with mergers and acquisitions, owning the compensation transition and related employee experience.

Lead the review, implementation, testing and maintenance of systems and technology to support compensation processes. Proactively audit compensation-related data on an ongoing basis.

In partnership with Legal, monitor the legislative landscape and ensure compliance with all compensation related activities.

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Compensation experienceGlobal experienceBase compensation understandingExcel proficiencyShort-term incentives understandingLong-term incentives understandingMicrosoft Office proficiencyPowerPoint proficiencyConceptual thinking skillsSales incentive plan designEquity plan design experienceWorkday HCM knowledgePayFactors platform knowledgeProject management skillsTechnology tools proficiency