Senior Compensation Analyst

Centene Corporation is transforming the health of our communities, one person at a time. The Senior Compensation Analyst serves as a subject-matter expert on compensation projects, providing support on compensation philosophy, policies, and programs while leading end-to-end compensation initiatives and ensuring compliance with regulations.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as subject-matter expert on compensation related projects and provides support to management, recruiters and People Business Partners (PBPs) on compensation philosophy, policies, programs and processes
• Implement and administer compensation programs such as labor market trend analysis job description oversight, compliance to state and federal laws and regulations and the annual compensation planning cycle
• Acts as a Project Lead on moderate to complex department projects and compensation system implementations, enhancements or upgrades
• Leads end-to-end compensation projects (inclusive of project management towards timeline, key stakeholders, requirements, recommendations, implementation and change management)
• Drives job architecture initiatives in partnership with PBPs, Project Management and people leader teams to design career framework, job profiles, job descriptions, compensation alignment, implementation, system changes and change management
• Leads end-to-end annual compensation planning process, inclusive of requirements, vendor management, testing, change management, and application of pay-for-performance
• Works with HR Systems (Workday, MarketPay, JDXpert, HRSoft) to ensure compensation related systems are updated and reflect appropriate program design, inclusive of requirement creation and UAT
• Plans, develops, implements and administers compensation programs to maintain competitive practices
• Proactively identifies and recommends improvements and efficiencies around compensation processes and programs, including departmental downstream impacts, resolutions and options
• Partners with PBPs and internal clients to understand business needs, job requirements and organizational design to evaluate jobs
• Leads change management initiatives, inclusive of training, reference guides, frequently asked questions (FAQs), talking points, and other communication materials
• Applies project management principles, including project purpose, current gaps, specific goal, project scope, key drivers of success, dependencies, assumptions, and risks
• Conducts market and trend analyses through salary survey input and market intelligence/research on an ad hoc and annual basis
• Conducts compensation activities including job evaluation, market pay analysis, internal equity analysis, cost projections, data audit and analysis, implementation, training and communication strategies
• Assists with the creation and revision of job descriptions
• Ensures compensation programs and job classifications comply with applicable wage and hour laws
• Updates and maintains wage and salary surveys, salary matrix, salary job structure and benchmarking studies
• Acts as a liaison and subject matter expert when working with client groups and other functional areas within the People Team on projects or issues that proactively address the needs of the business
• Provides effective problem solving and communication with all internal and external customers to ensure requests are handled efficiently
• Provides training and onboarding to new compensation analysts and administrators
• Performs special projects and other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards