Compensation & HR Administration Specialist

Abbott Laboratories; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 51,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free medical coverage in HIP PPO

Excellent retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement and FreeU

Job summary

Abbott is seeking an Associate Specialist in Global Compensation Administration to deliver and optimize compensation programs. You will provide data‑driven recommendations on pay actions, assess market references, and support annual and ad hoc salary surveys while collaborating with HR teams globally.

You will administer merit and incentive plans using the Workday module, perform equity studies, manage job descriptions, and contribute to process improvements withTraining and documentation.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree plus 1 year of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred and 2–4 years in a compensation analyst role with experience in basic compensation functions including making salary recommendations, submitting to salary surveys and analyzing survey data, and market pricing.

Responsibilities

• Provides recommendations on various pay actions (promotions, equities, bonus buyouts, etc.) utilizing survey sources, market references, internal equity, and other data as appropriate.
• Makes external job offer recommendations (i.e. Same Day Offer and hourly rate recommendations).
• Completes survey submissions for annual and ad hoc salary surveys and utilizes results for the development of start rates, site wage proposals, salary structures and equity studies.
• Performs equity studies.
• Manages the job description process.
• Administers annual compensation programs (merit, salary planning, short‑term incentive plans), utilizing Workday compensation module.
• Provides compensation analysis and data management support for special projects including acquisitions and divestitures, large reorganizations, job leveling, job hierarchies, internal and external audits, new government‑mandated changes, etc.
• Provides input to enhance existing processes or to establish processes for new programs including documentation of compensation practices (knowledge articles, job aids, work instructions etc.) and provides training.
• Performs User Acceptance and Regression testing, including creating test scripts.

Skills

Excel

Workday

Zendesk

Project management

Analytical skills

Interpersonal communication

Education

Associate’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Excel

Workday

Zendesk

Job description

Abbott is seeking an Associate Specialist in Global Compensation Administration to deliver and optimize compensation programs. You will provide data‑driven recommendations on pay actions, assess market references, and support annual and ad hoc salary surveys while collaborating with HR teams globally.

You will administer merit and incentive plans using the Workday module, perform equity studies, manage job descriptions, and contribute to process improvements withTraining and documentation.