Summary

Reporting to the VP of Americas HR and in partnership with the central Global Total Rewards team, the Americas Compensation and Benefits Manager will provide compensation and benefits expertise and support to the HR teams in the Americas retail region. You will lead compensation and benefits reviews and support local HR teams on implementation. You will provide general compensation support at the individual and program level to ensure equity and alignment with global compensation practices. You will provide guidance to HR team members in areas such as HRIS data administration, reporting, compliance, budgeting, tax, payroll.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an internal consultant to support and advise HR, talent and business managers on compensation-related activities.
• Conduct regular benchmarking analyses and job-level assessments to update and maintain externally competitive salary grade structures.
• Lead the design and analysis of commission and/or reward schemes to ensure the schemes support key business objectives.
• Lead the gathering of insights on competitive pay and benefits practices for luxury retailers.
• Manage the consultants and service providers to initiate or schedule insurance plan renewals for LATAM and Canada.
• Create materials to effectively communicate compensation and benefits plans, policies and practices to the HR team, employees and managers.
• Ensure pay and benefit practices are compliant with US federal and state requirements and requirements for each country in which we operate.
• Work cross-functionally to participate in projects and activities based on business requirements.
• Establish and manage compensation and benefits policies, guidelines and practices that are locally appropriate and aligned with global standards.
• Contribute to development of HR service and delivery of HR projects and initiatives.
• Liaise with finance team on tax related matters.
• Provide leadership, guidance and support on annual global compensation processes.
• Partner with HR Systems and other teams to ensure access to relevant reports and data.
• Design and build compensation metrics, reports and tools to inform compensation program decisions and analyze business outcomes.
• Develop and implement appropriate audits to maintain data accuracy in Oracle HCM.
• Act as a regional contact on system support.
• Troubleshoot data issues more broadly as they arise.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, or related required.
• 5+ years’ experience administering compensation and benefits programs.
• Outstanding analytical skills, with significant experience in efficiently gathering and manipulating data to perform quantitative and qualitative data analyses with analytical tools, especially MS Excel.
• Direct experience with project management, preferably in process improvement.
• Strong ability to communicate rationale for decisions in writing and to explain analyses to HR partners, line managers and business leaders.
• Leads with strong judgement and integrity in approaching their work.
• Strong interpersonal skills, as well as verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to work independently and take initiative.
• Able to support and prioritize multiple projects and meet deadlines under pressure.
• SHRM, PHR or CCP certification preferred.
• Deep expertise in compensation work preferred.
• Previous work experience and working knowledge of sales compensation process and analysis preferred.
• Experience in health education and promotion preferred.