Senior Compensation Analyst

Gordon Food Service - Wyoming, MI

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Wyoming, MI

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods

About the position

The Senior Compensation Analyst at Gordon Food Service is responsible for developing, implementing, administering, and evaluating company-wide compensation programs. This role involves collaborating with various levels of staff and management to ensure the integrity and quality execution of compensation projects, conducting market data analysis, and making wage recommendations to maintain competitive pay practices.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements compensation programs that align with the culture, values, and compensation philosophy of Gordon Food Service.
• Serves as a compensation project leader, assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating compensation projects.
• Works with the Compensation Manager on strategic planning of compensation initiatives.
• Evaluates current organizational pay practices and makes recommendations for change.
• Creates position profiles and performs position analysis, ensuring proper classification of positions and levels of responsibility.
• Maintains and updates documents and accessibility on HomePlate.
• Makes decisions on the participation and purchase of appropriate salary surveys and suggests compensation tools.
• Responsible for maintenance of any tools utilized for compensation analysis.
• Uses surveys and competitive assessments in market pricing to determine appropriate pay for positions.
• Advises management on compensation recommendations based on analysis.
• Analyzes and interprets data and communicates findings to others.
• Educates staff and management on key compensation issues to ensure consistency with trends in compensation philosophy and practices.
• Researches special compensation programs or incentive systems to support the organization's objectives.
• Ensures compliance with all regulatory agency standards and guidelines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus five or more years of professional level experience in design, development, implementation, and administration of compensation.
• Eight years of direct technical compensation expertise in plan designs, market analysis, pricing, salary planning, and alternative designs and rewards may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with incentive or component pay in retail, sales, or operations compensation preferred.
• Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) or other related certification preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in retail, sales, or operations compensation.

Benefits

• Hybrid work schedule (2 days from home)
• Equal opportunity employer
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion
• Support for reasonable accommodation requests due to disability