Senior Director, Compensation

This is a Full Time Job

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Senior Director Compensation

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 global merit and bonus review cycle and global compensation budget. We build and maintain compensation structures to ensure our people are fairly and competitively paid.

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Global Compensation and Benefits, this role sits within the US Compensation and Benefits team in Human Resources based out of the NYC Headquarters.

Why this could be your next big break:

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 incumbent 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 Global Head of 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 DE&I 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 and compliance 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 compe