Sr Manager Compensation Strategy
Job Summary
The Senior Manager, Compensation Strategy & Analytics partners with senior leaders to help shape enterprise compensation strategy through advanced analytics and executive-level insights. The role focuses on solving complex compensation questions, translating business strategy into data-driven recommendations, and enabling confident leadership decisions. This position drives commercial strategy and incentive effectiveness across Diagnostics by delivering enterprise-level insights and ensuring program alignment with business priorities.
Responsibilities
- Lead division-level compensation strategy and analytics.
- Develop executive-ready insights and scenario models.
- Support pay equity and transparency compliance.
- Advise HR Business Partners on complex compensation topics.
Required Skills
- 5+ years in sales analytics and strategic planning.
- Advanced Excel, Alteryx, Access Database, or Power Apps.
- Data modeling and large data set analysis.
- Senior stakeholder management and influence.
Job Details
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead compensation initiatives at division level that support growth, transformation, and workforce effectiveness.
- Assess compensation risks, trade-offs, and opportunities; provide clear recommendations grounded in data and market insight.
- Contribute to compensation philosophy, governance frameworks, and decision guidelines.
- Lead development of compensation and workforce analytics used in executive reviews, planning cycles, and leadership decision-making.
- Create executive-ready materials that synthesize complex data into concise insights, implications, and recommended actions.
- Build scenario models and forward-looking analyses to support strategic decisions (e.g., growth, restructuring, pay positioning).
- Integrate compensation data with financial and workforce inputs to support enterprise planning discussions.
- Support strategic pay equity and pay transparency analyses in partnership with Legal and HR.
- Ensure compensation insights and recommendations are defensible, compliant, and aligned with governance standards.
- Monitor external market, regulatory, and talent trends and assess impact on compensation strategy.
- Act as a trusted advisor to HR Business Partners and functional leaders on complex compensation topics.
- Partner with Compensation Operations and HR Analytics to ensure strategic insights are scalable and actionable.
- Mentor and guide analysts or managers contributing to compensation analytics and insights.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5 or more years of experience in sales analytics and strategic planning
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1 or more years' experience designing or advising on sales compensation and incentive programs
- 1 or more years' experience using Alteryx, Access Database or Power Apps
- 1 or more years' experience with advanced excel skills, including XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP etc.
- 1 or more years of experience analyzing large data sets and translating insights into actionable recommendations to influence leadership decisions
Additional Job Standards:
- Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders with data-driven insights
- Background in enterprise or matrixed organizations with complex governance
- Experience integrating compensation, financial, and workforce data
- Exposure to pay equity, pay transparency, or regulatory compliance work
- Proven ability to operate effectively in ambiguous or evolving environments
- Advanced analytical thinking and business problem-solving
- Strong judgment in navigating risk, trade-offs, and governance
- Ability to translate complex data into clear business insights
- Financial and commercial understanding of incentive effectiveness
- Credible advisor to senior leaders and HR partners
- Experience with compensation tool, specifically Varicent
- In-office hybrid, 3 days per week; Less than 10% travel