Senior Compensation Specialist

Sentara Health; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

401k with Employer Match

Paid Time Off & Sick Leave

Tuition Assistance

Student Debt Pay Down

CEU access and professional dev.

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Job summary

Sentara Health in the United States seeks a Senior Compensation Specialist to lead market analyses, job evaluations, and organizational pay reviews. You will partner with HR, Talent Acquisition, and leadership to align compensation with strategy and financial goals.

You will translate data into actionable guidance, support annual processes, and help shape pay programs and governance while ensuring competitiveness and equity across a large workforce.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive experience in compensation, including market pricing, job evaluation, and internal equity analysis.
• Experience supporting Talent Acquisition with complex offer strategy and negotiations.
• Ability to interpret compensation philosophy, policies, and governance frameworks in complex situations.
• Experience developing data-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 & MarketPay).

Responsibilities

• Lead complex market analyses, job evaluations, and organizational pay reviews.
• Provide expert recommendations on compensation strategy, job structure, and pay decisions.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners, and leadership to support hiring, workforce planning, and retention.
• Support annual compensation processes through data validation, auditing, and insight generation.

Skills

Market pricing

Job evaluation

Internal equity analysis

Advanced Excel

Data-driven insights

HRIS

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in HR, Business, Finance, Analytics, or related field

Certified Compensation Professional (CCP)

Tools

Workday

MarketPay

Job description

City/State

Norfolk, VA

Work 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:

• Bachelor’s 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)

Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career

• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
• Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
• Pet Insurance
• 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 30,000-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.