Compensation Consultant

We believe in the power and joy of learning. At Cengage Group, our employees have a direct impact in helping students around the world discover the power and joy of learning.

We are bonded by our shared purpose - driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.

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Our culture values diversity, engagement, and discovery. Our business is driven by our strong culture, and we know that creating an inclusive and diverse workplace is absolutely essential to the success of our company and our learners, as well as our individual well-being.

We recognize the value of diverse perspectives in everything we do and strive to ensure employees of all levels and backgrounds feel empowered to voice their ideas and bring their authentic selves to work.

The Compensation Consultant role is an exciting opportunity to develop, support and maintain market-competitive compensation programs that foster a high-performance culture and enable the attraction and retention of talent across the globe.

As part of the corporate Compensation team, this role will provide consultative, analytical, technical and administrative support across all compensation offerings. What you'll do :

• 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.

Skills You Will Need Here :

• Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, or a related field.
• 8+ years of compensation experience; global experience required.
• Demonstrated broad understanding of compensation including base, short-term and long-term incentives.
• Collaborative great teammate who builds partnerships with internal and external contacts at all organizational levels in a matrixed environment.
• Strong organization and project management skills; able to prioritize work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; strong presentation skills.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong analytical skills and conceptual thinking skills.
• Digitally savvy and comfortable with technology tools.
• Highly resourceful, self-motivated problem solver.
• An adaptive individual who is comfortable with ambiguity.

Preferred Skills :

• Sales incentive plan design experience.
• Experience in equity plan design and administration in private and / or public company.
• Knowledge of Workday HCM Advanced Compensation module and PayFactors platform desirable.

Cengage Group is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, parental status, cultural background, organizational level, work styles, tenure and life experiences.

Cengage Group is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at @cengage.com or you may call us at +1 (617) 289-7917.

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