Manager - Compensation & Benefits

Role & responsibilities

• Design compensation packages and bonus programs that align with the organization's strategic plan.
• Ensure salaries and benefits comply with the current legislation about human rights and pay equity.
• Identify trends and implement new practices to engage and motivate employees.
• Conduct research on employee satisfaction (e.g. using surveys and quantitative data).
• Renew our compensation plans with monetary and non-monetary benefits based on employee needs.
• Keep track of prevailing pay rates and make sure we offer competitive compensation plans.
• Draft job descriptions, job analyses and classifications.
• Structure compensation in ways that will yield the highest value for the organization.
• Evaluate and report on the effectiveness of employee benefit programs.
• Track compensation and benefits benchmarking data.

Preferred candidate profile

• Graduation/Post Graduation in Human Resources Management, Finance, or relevant field.
• Previous working experience as a compensation and benefits specialist for 4 years.
• Prior experience in HR operations, HRIS or payroll software and knowledge of best practices.
• Assessing the organizations pay structure.
• Analytically inclined: The HR compensation and benefits profession requires professionals with strong analytical capabilities, as they are required to analyze trends, surveys, and spreadsheets as to determine compensation and benefits strategies.
• Detail-oriented: Compensation and benefits strategies are highly technical in nature, and the work involves a considerable amount of research and the interpretation of data. Therefore, compensation and benefits specialist must be detail oriented as to understand how compensation fits into the overall objectives of the organization.
• Strong Ethics and Discretion: Because compensation and benefits managers deal with confidential information, they must be stewards of ethics and discrete when it comes to handling sensitive information.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.