Director, Global Compensation

Job Description

A little bit about our team:

The Compensation and Benefits team delivers comprehensive support to the global WMG business, including driving the strategic planning, design, development, implementation and communication of competitive total rewards programs including the annual incentive cycle and global compensation budget. We build and maintain compensation structures to ensure our people are fairly and competitively paid.

Reporting to the VP Global Compensation, this role sits within the US Compensation and Benefits team in Human Resources.

Your role:

You are a compensation subject matter expert and eager to expand our compensation support to additional global territories and capable of delivering complex compensation projects while enabling the attraction and retention of top talent around the world.

The successful candidate will serve as a business confidant and thought partner on all compensation matters and understands the complexity of an organization that meshes technology and creativity together.

The candidate must have strong demonstrated compensation experience and a desire to develop and grow within a dynamic and employee-centric company. This individual must also have an easy familiarity with technology and be nimble, agile, and flexible.

Here you'll get to:
• Consult with VP Global Compensation on the development of compensation strategies, policies, and processes
• Devise creative solutions and approaches to compensation that enable us to meet the demands of a competitive marketplace while ensuring fair pay
• Bring an awareness of ''skills of the future'' and thoughtfully align our compensation programs with WMG's People Strategy, enabling continued evolution in key areas such as technology analytics and data visualization
• Ensure that all our compensation programs support and enable our robust DEI strategy and objectives. Provide thought leadership in areas such as pay equity, ESG and transparency
• Develop key cross-functional partnerships across the organization, including working with global finance on headcount planning, budgeting and forecasting; and with legal to ensure compliance of our programs
• Manage the annual bonus and merit process for all US labels, Global Businesses and Corporate. Provide guidance, support and direction to managers and other colleagues
• Act as a strategic business advisor to senior business leaders and a partner to HR leaders, ensuring that our programs align with our business goals and support talent acquisition, retention, career development, mobility and our diversity initiatives
• Provide consultative thought leadership to the human resources community and business leaders on pay decisions, pay guidelines, policy and guideline interpretation and job evaluation including the design of creative solutions to specific compensation-related challenges
• Provide senior management comprehensive reporting of competitive pay position versus marketplace; advise managers of compensation trends and anecdotal market intelligence
• Partner with HR and management in the development and evaluation of job descriptions. Assigning FLSA classification, salary grades and job levels on new roles
• Manage and deepen partnerships with key vendors and external partners that will enrich our thinking and programs with industry insights and ensure that our programs remain competitive
• Conduct ad-hoc analyses to evaluate and recommend pay adjustments to maintain internal equity and external competitiveness.

About you:
• Minimum 7-10 years of Compensation experience
• Experience designing and building compensation programs, pay models and benchmarking approaches
• Experience developing and maintaining global job architecture pay structures
• You are a hands-on leader who has previously managed a team of individual contributors
• A highly metrics-focused orientation that can effectively communicate technically complex information
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills
• Demonstrated success in a dynamic, fast-paced, frequently changing, and leanly staffed environment
• Efficiently manage current programs, challenge the status quo, and champion new initiatives
• A consummate team player who builds highly effective professional relationships and can effectively work with and communicate across multiples levels of the organization
• Strong work ethic holds self and others accountable for achieving required outcomes
• High energy, sense of urgency, results-oriented with strong operations skill set
• An established track record of building credibility and trust across the organization, candid communication, high integrity, sound business ethics and judgment
• Able to quickly learn a company's priorities and translate them into actionable solutions

We'd love it if you also had:
• Workday experience
• Strong working knowledge of Google Workplace suite
• Data visualization software experience

Salary Range
$175,000 to $225,000 annually

Salary ranges are included for job postings where required by law. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as work experience and business needs. The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors.

Links to relevant documents:

2024 Benefits At A Glance final.pdf

EVerify Participation Poster.pdf

Right To Work - English.pdf

Right to Work - Spanish.pdf

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rn12j1-3-12-71-26-42 in your application.