Compensation Consultant

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This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver - regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 16,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

I. Major Responsibilities:

1. Lead cyclical compensation work for the assigned business areas including market benchmarking reviews, compensation planning, job design, and consistently looking to innovate and improve pay practices, operations and anything that helps attract and retain talent.
2. Advise and educate, leaders, Human Resource Business Partners and Talent Acquisition Partners in-cycle and out-of-cycle about our compensation programs and philosophy balancing all levers in compensation including base pay, variable/incentive pay.
3. Leverage analytics to stay on top of internal trends, relevant pay legislation and competitive market intelligence, anticipating and navigating the potential impact to our pay philosophy, benchmarks and practices.
4. Works with managers to conduct job analysis, market analysis, pay reviews and develop compensation recommendations and costing.
5. Develops and fosters trusting relationships with all levels of management for assigned business areas to gain support for initiatives and achieve results. Meets periodically to review market analysis reports. Assists in the development of reports and scorecards that will be meaningful and actionable to the department and service line leaders and managers.
6. Handle issues with typically large scope, higher levels of complexity, sensitivity and/or visibility with the organization. Encourage others to take a strategic approach to solving compensation issues as opposed to simply responding to the current situation. Serve as a resource to explain compensation policy and systems. Provide training on compensation related programs.
7. Assist and provide analysis to determine feasibility for union negotiations. Collaborates with members of the finance department to ensure the validity of models used to cost-out proposals. May participate in union-management contract negotiations.

II. Position Qualifications:

License/Certification/Education:
Required:
1. Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business Administration, or related field

Preferred:
1. Certified Compensation Professional and/or SHRM/SPHR certification designation.
2. Master's degree in Human Resources, Business, or Organizational Management

Experience/Skills:
Required:
1. Minimum five years of increasingly complex compensation experience including data collection and analysis, working knowledge of compensation systems, job evaluation methodology, and principals of wage/salary administration.
2. Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal and interpersonal and presentation skills.
3. Demonstrated experience interpreting and applying wage & hour laws, and FLSA classifications
4. Highly proficient in Excel and all Microsoft Office programs.
5. Demonstrated ability to lead and manage complex projects.

Preferred:
1. Previous experience in healthcare industry
2. Experience in a unionized environment strongly preferred

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

Department-specific competencies and their measurements will be developed and maintained in the individual departments. The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents.

III. Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions:

Work is considered sedentary. Position requires work indoors in a normal office environment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We're striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health - for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentacquisition@umassmemorial.org. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.