Compensation Manager, Management

Position Overview

This role leads enterprise-wide compensation strategy, workforce analytics, job architecture, and related HR systems governance. Partnering closely with executive leadership, Finance, HR, and Legal, this leader ensures compensation programs are competitive, equitable, financially sound, and aligned with long-term organizational strategy.

• Design and oversee compensation programs including market pricing, salary structures, incentives, and annual merit/bonus cycles

• Provide decision support for offers, promotions, adjustments, and retention actions

• Lead compensation modeling, budgeting, governance, and post-cycle analysis

• Own workforce and labor cost analytics (headcount, attrition, productivity, vacancy trends)

• Partner with Finance on forecasting, scenario modeling, and long-range workforce planning

• Deliver executive-ready insights and dashboards to inform leadership decisions

• Lead job architecture strategy, career frameworks, and leveling standards

• Support organizational design, spans-and-layers analysis, and workforce optimization initiatives

• Ensure alignment between job structure, pay programs, and talent strategy

• Conduct pay equity analyses and ensure regulatory compliance

• Maintain strong governance, documentation, and internal controls

• Oversee compensation and workforce planning functionality within HRIS and drive process improvements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in compensation, total rewards, or workforce strategy

• Strong analytical, financial modeling, and HR systems expertise

• Experience advising senior leadership on complex workforce and pay decisions

• Deep knowledge of compensation governance, compliance, and job architecture design