Remote Contract Role | Compensation Analyst

Job Description: Client is seeking a proven compensation expert to shape the next generation of our sales compensation program. This role will partner with the Sales Operations, Sales Finance, legal, HR Business Partners and Compensation teams to drive the design and execution of good plan governance and harmonization, and best practices in sales compensation plan design and administration, ultimately delivering positive business results. This role requires excellent program management and cross functional collaboration skills, executive influencing skills, and plan modeling / design skills. The ideal candidate has a passion for establishing and driving relationships both within and across the HR, finance, legal, and executive teams.

About the role:

• Owns, develops, and drives our sales compensation program that is aligned with client's overall strategy and goals, and partners with HRBP, Finance, Sales Finance and business leaders to develop initiatives driving successful business outcomes through incentive compensation, including relationships with outside advisors and vendor partners.
• Provides guidance and recommendation to improve the sales compensation programs design, modeling, communication, and implementation.
• Streamlines sales compensation program change and renewal processes while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Monitors and evaluates sales compensation program effectiveness by partnering with the business leaders and sales operations partners and make adjustments as necessary to ensure they continue to support the company’s goals.
• Research, evaluate and propose best practices of sales compensation program design and administration in the market, including competitive pay mix, incentive metrics and mechanism; build Tools which anticipate the needs of our internal stakeholders, partners, and clients.
• Build and lead strategic partnerships with lines of business across Client Group to ensure alignment of our compensation offerings with fiscal and legal realities.
• Deliver cross-functional results through effective partnership, influencing skills, trust building, and shared education.
• Empower recruiting with essential compensation expertise and practices needed to keep pace with aggressive hiring goals
• Support the execution of our annual salary planning activities in collaboration with the broader compensation team and key partners
• This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice which must be identified to the Company. Employees may live in any of the 50 US States, with limited exceptions. In certain cases, an employee in a remote-designated job may need to live in a specific region or time zone to support customers or clients as part of their role.

Who you are:

• Ability to build and analyze data to help develop solutions for key clients as well as building solid compensation recommendations
• Ability to build relationships, influence and collaborate with high-level leadership
• Thrives working in a highly collaborative environment
• Ability and willingness to share compensation expertise to help develop partners, clients and team mates
• Expert technical and analytical skills to review large data sets and build modeling tools for the team and customers

Qualifications

• Bachelors’ Degree in HR, Finance, Business Administration or other related field
• 12+ years of compensation experience, sales compensation experience is highly preferred
• Demonstrated success leading sales compensation incentive analysis, design, modeling and implementation
• Ability to use systems and tools necessary to illustrate and convey complex information in clear and simple formats (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.)
• Knowledge of HR programs and systems – prior experience with Workday is highly preferred