Senior Strategic Compensation & Job Design Leader

Johns Hopkins Medicine; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 62,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins Medicine is seeking a senior compensation professional to lead analytical work on job design, classification, and pay practices. The role partners with hospital leadership to design and implement market-based compensation programs and ensure policy compliance.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of compensation experience, a related Bachelor's degree, and strong analytical skills to drive data-driven recommendations across the health system.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field.
• One year of relevant education may substitute for one year of required work experience, or one year of relevant professional-level work experience may substitute for one year of required education.
• Minimum of 7 years of compensation experience, including job evaluation, data acquisition and analysis, survey completion and analysis, job description creation, and pay policy interpretation.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a strategic partner to assigned business entities in managing needs assessment, design, and implementation of compensation and reward services.
• Works with health system and entity senior leadership to examine root problems and develop recommendations addressing key issues impacting the health system.
• Performs complex analysis based on HR and organizational design principles, developing alternative recommendations and implementation strategies for job design and compensation programs.
• Mentors Compensation staff, providing coaching, guidance, and education on professional trends and issues in HR and compensation.
• Advises and coordinates with management and staff on proper classification of positions, interpretation of job classifications, and application of compensation policies.
• Assists in developing job evaluation and design plans by researching occupational characteristics and preparing statistical data reflecting market considerations.
• Prepares job descriptions, recommends corresponding compensation levels and salary ranges, and communicates recommendations in a concise, customer-focused format.
• Completes compensation surveys of companies and hospitals, providing analysis and preliminary recommendations on job evaluation, design, classifications, and market trends.
• Audits pay practices to ensure compliance with federal and state legislation and internal pay policies, documenting findings and recommending appropriate compliance solutions.

Skills

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in HR or related field

Job description

Johns Hopkins Medicine is seeking a senior compensation professional to lead analytical work on job design, classification, and pay practices. The role partners with hospital leadership to design and implement market-based compensation programs and ensure policy compliance.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of compensation experience, a related Bachelor's degree, and strong analytical skills to drive data-driven recommendations across the health system.