Senior Compensation Specialist
Job Location:
Norfolk, MA - USA
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Job Summary
City/State
Norfolk VAWork Shift
First (Days)Overview:
The Senior Compensation Specialist serves as a strategic and consultative partner to HR and business leadership responsible for delivering advanced compensation analysis and guidance across the organization. This role plays a critical part in ensuring compensation programs are market competitive internallyequitable and aligned with organizational strategy workforce needs and financialobjectives.
Operating with a high degree of independence the Senior Compensation Specialist leads complex market analyses job evaluations and organizational pay reviews providing expert recommendations on compensation strategy job structure and pay decisions. This position partners closely with Talent Acquisition HR Business Partners and leadership to support hiring strategies workforce planning and retention initiatives.
The role also supports annual compensation processes through rigorous data validation auditing and insight generation ensuringaccurateand effective program outcomes. The Senior Specialist translates complex data into clear actionable guidance and contributes to continuous improvement of compensation practices tools and governance frameworks.
Education
Preferred:
Bachelors Degree in Human Resources Business Administration Finance Analytics or related field
Certification/Licensure
Preferred:
Certified Compensation Professional (CCP)
Experience
Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in compensation including market pricing job evaluation and internal equity analysis
Demonstrated experience supporting Talent Acquisition with complex offer strategy and negotiations
Proven ability to interpret compensation philosophy policies and governance frameworks in complex situations
Experiencedevelopingdata-driven insights and recommendations for HR and business partners
Advanced Excel skills including modeling scenario analysis and large dataset manipulation
Experience working with HRIS and compensation planning tools (Workday &MarketPaypreferred)
Legal Resources Plan
Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus ifestablished system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30000-member workforce. Diversity inclusion and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
In support of our mission to improve health every day this is a tobacco-free environment.
For positions that are available as remote work Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:
Alabama Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Kansas Louisiana Maine Maryland Minnesota Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Sentara Health, is an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system in Virginia and North Carolina. Sentara improves health everyday.
