Global Total Rewards Analyst

Novanta Inc.; Bedford (MA); On-site; USD 77,220 - 115,495; Full time

Job summary

Novanta Inc. in the United States is seeking a Global Total Rewards Analyst to support compensation, benefits, and mobility programs across regions.

You will help governance, analytics, and decision enablement while ensuring data integrity and confidentiality. The role requires 3–5 years of relevant experience, strong Excel and Workday skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities across stakeholders and countries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Finance, Analytics, or a related field; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• 3–5 years of experience in compensation, benefits, HR operations, mobility, finance, or HR analytics; global or multi-site organization experience preferred.
• Strong analytical and data management skills; advanced Excel capability preferred, including lookups, pivot tables, formulas, and basic modeling.
• Experience working with HRIS, compensation, or benefits systems; Workday experience preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High attention to detail, strong follow-through, sound judgment, and ability to maintain confidentiality when working with sensitive employee and compensation data.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across stakeholders, deadlines, countries, vendors, and recurring Total Rewards cycles.

Responsibilities

• Compensation Analysis & Framework Support: Support global job architecture, job leveling, salary structure maintenance, and market pricing activities to ensure role clarity, internal equity, and market competitiveness.
• Benefits, Wellbeing & Retirement Program Support: Support administration and continuous improvement of health and welfare, retirement, time off and company paid leave, wellbeing, and ancillary benefit programs across regions.
• Global Mobility & Compliance Operations: Provide operational and analytical support for international assignments, immigration, relocations, transfers, and cross-border arrangements.
• Governance, Analytics & Enterprise Advisory: Support vendor management activities, including data requests, contract and renewal tracking, invoice review, and reporting; partner with HR Business Partners for data and reporting needs.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Confidentiality

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR/Business/Analytics

Tools

Excel

Workday

HRIS

Job description

Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.

We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission‑critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia‑Pacific.

Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment.

Come explore Novanta.

Position Details

The Global Total Rewards Analyst is an analyst-level individual contributor responsible for supporting the administration, analysis, and governance of scalable global Total Rewards programs across compensation, benefits, and mobility. This role supports both Total Rewards strategy and execution across: Broad-based compensation and incentive administration Global job architecture, leveling, and market pricing Benefits, retirement, wellbeing, and vendor administration Global mobility case coordination and compliance Manager and employee education, reporting, and decision enablement.

Primary Responsibilities

• Compensation Analysis & Framework Support Support global job architecture, job leveling, salary structure maintenance, and market pricing activities to ensure role clarity, internal equity, and market competitiveness. Assist with annual compensation planning activities, including data preparation, budget modeling, Workday cycle support, and post-cycle reporting. Support broad-based compensation and incentive administration by collecting data, validating assumptions, maintaining documentation, and coordinating recurring deliverables.
• Benefits, Wellbeing & Retirement Program Support Support administration and continuous improvement of health and welfare, retirement, time off and company paid leave, wellbeing, and ancillary benefit programs across regions. Coordinate benefit program materials, renewals, vendor documentation, plan governance documents, and audit-ready files.
• Global Mobility & Compliance Operations Provide operational and analytical support for international assignments, immigration, relocations, transfers, and cross-border arrangements. Maintain mobility case trackers, employee and vendor documentation, cost estimates, and status updates to support consistent employee experience. Coordinate with employees, vendors, HR partners, Legal, Finance, and regional teams to support timely and accurate mobility processes.
• Governance, Analytics & Enterprise Advisory Support Support vendor management activities, including data requests, contract and renewal tracking, invoice review, performance reporting, and follow-up. Partner with HR Business Partners to provide data, reporting, and practical support for business-specific compensation, benefits, and mobility needs. Handle sensitive employee and compensation information with confidentiality, accuracy, and sound judgment.

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Finance, Analytics, or a related field; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• 3–5 years of experience in compensation, benefits, HR operations, mobility, finance, or HR analytics; global or multi‑site organization experience preferred.
• Strong analytical and data management skills; advanced Excel capability preferred, including lookups, pivot tables, formulas, and basic modeling.
• Experience working with HRIS, compensation, or benefits systems; Workday experience preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High attention to detail, strong follow‑through, sound judgment, and ability to maintain confidentiality when working with sensitive employee and compensation data.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across stakeholders, deadlines, countries, vendors, and recurring Total Rewards cycles.

Compensation

The salary for this role will range from 77,220.00 - 115,495.00 USD annual based on full‑time employment. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to location, relevant skills, training, experience, education, etc. Certain roles may be eligible for performance‑based incentive compensation and/or long‑term incentives. Incentives could be discretionary or non‑discretionary depending on the plan. Novanta supports all aspects of your life’s needs. This position provides a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits to make your quality of life better.

Why This Role Matters

This role helps strengthen the Total Rewards infrastructure that enables Novanta to attract, retain, engage, and support a highly skilled global workforce. By improving data quality, process discipline, communication, governance, and analytics, the Global Total Rewards Analyst contributes to a more consistent, compliant, scalable, and employee‑centered Total Rewards experience. Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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Solving complex challenges, delivering innovations that matter! Novanta is a leading global supplier of core technology solutions that give medical, life science, and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers a competitive advantage. We combine deep proprietary expertise and competencies in precision medicine, precision manufacturing, robotics and automation, and advanced surgery with a proven ability to solve complex technical challenges. This enables Novanta to engineer proprietary technology solutions that deliver extreme precision and performance, tailored to our customers' demanding applications. The driving force behind our growth is the team of innovative professionals who share a commitment to innovation, the Novanta Growth System, and our customers’ success. Novanta’s common shares are quoted on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "NOVT".