Compensation Consultant

Ascension Healthcare; Oregon City (OR); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascension Healthcare is seeking a Compensation Consultant to develop and manage compensation strategies. This role involves collaborating with HR and business leaders, providing thought leadership, and ensuring alignment with market trends and organizational goals. Join a leading healthcare organization committed to transforming care and supporting community health.

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Health insurance options

Retirement benefits

Long-term & short-term disability

Tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate's degree, or Bachelor's degree required.
• Master's degree preferred.
• 5 years of experience required; 10 years preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with HR and business leaders on compensation strategies.
• Researches market conditions and provides compensation solutions.
• Leads daily work assignments for the compensation team.

Skills

Analytical skills

Critical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

**Details**

+ **Department:** Compensation Services

+ **Schedule:** Full Time, Days

+ **Location:** Remote with less than 10% travel

**Benefits**

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Ways to give back to your community

_Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer._

**Responsibilities**

The Compensation Consultant collaborates with HR and business leaders as a trusted business advisor on all compensation related strategies, programs, processes and policies. The Compensation Consultant listens to understand the market’s business challenges and provides thought leadership and brings best practice compensation solutions within approved budget parameters and enterprise standards with the objective to attract and retain associates.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for developing and managing client relationships with market business leaders, HR and additional stakeholders. Serves as the subject matter expert on compensation related matters. Listens to understand market challenges and provides thought leadership on compensation related matters. Researches concerns brought forward by stakeholders to identify trends in information versus isolated occurrences. Participates in complex client conversations to help identify potential solutions which may or may not require compensation solutions.

Performs the role of liaison for the larger compensation team by sharing market challenges with dedicated compensation market team and broader compensation team. Provides insight to potential compensation solutions to explore. Collaborates with other dedicated market teams to share market challenges and co-create compensation solutions.

Mindful to work with labor relations when solutions either impact current or future collective bargaining agreements. Recommends compensation approaches and methods in advance of and during contract negotiation.

Leads dedicated market team’s daily work assignments by ensuring the team: has the information and direction needed to explore scenarios, model potential solutions, deliver agreed upon projects; has reasonable project deadlines; established deadlines are met; ensures job evaluations and market analysis are complete and thorough according to established methodologies; work products delivered to the markets have been through a quality review audit; identifies development opportunities to continue to learn and build individual and team competencies; meets customer expectations and appropriately escalate challenges. Provides mentoring to team members and coaches with a growth mind-set.

Researches market conditions including compensation trends, HR analytics including but not limited to turnover, offers made and accepted, premium compensation programs and paid practices, labor available in the market to identify proactive compensation solutions that are aligned with the talent strategy, ministry strategy, and organization policy. Uses data and established methodologies in everyday decision making. Able to decipher patterns, translate internal and external market data into useful insights, formulate insights and communicate findings to market team members and stakeholders. Builds business cases to support compensation solutions based on well researched data that focus on delivering established compensation strategies and provides an accountability and feedback loop for solution effectiveness.

Collaborates with internal resources to design compensation solutions utilizing approved methodologies for data analysis, national job architecture framework, salary ranges, geographic analysis, national pay policies, and budget parameters. Builds and implements harmonized compensation solutions supported within technology capabilities. Creates written materials in the form of presentations to provide leaders with market facts that support decision making. Collaborates with communications to build market based communication and change management plans.

Participates in national committees including Strategic Workforce Integration Movement (SWIM) activities within assigned market as a compensation subject matter expert to help utilize established compensation programs, policies, understand disruption impact, or co-create new programs and/or policies to meet the changing needs of the organization.

Approaches work with a high degree of independence, detail, and accuracy. Ensures approved compensation methodologies are used in analysis and approach to work products that support the compensation strategy and business objectives. Applies strong analytical and critical thinking skills and expertise to draw conclusions and bring forward data insights to contribute to the performance of the team. Communicates frequently using effective verbal and written channels with stakeholders including internal and external to the compensation department. Oversight responsibility in the documentation of work processes and products.

**Requirements**

Education:

+ High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate's degree, or Bachelor's degree required.

+ Master's degree preferred.

Work Experience:

+ 5 years of experience required.

+ 10 years of experience preferred.

**Additional Preferences**

+ Master's degree preferred

+ 5 years of experience required; 10 years of experience is preferred

+ Healthcare experience preferred

+ Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) preferred

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**Why Join Our Team**

Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.

**Equal Employment Opportunity Employer**

Ascension provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, lactation, breastfeeding, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, all as defined by applicable law, and any other legally protected status or characteristic in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

For further information, view the EEO Know Your Rights (English) (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) poster or EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish) (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRightsSp\_10\_20.pdf) poster.

As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.

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Please note that Ascension will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Ascension will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.

**E-Verify Statement**

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