Senior Compensation Consultant

Location: This position is full-time (40-hours/week) Monday-Friday in a typical office environment. This role is onsite at 51 Clemson Rd. Columbia, SC.

Position Purpose: You will design compensation programs and practices, collaborating with business leaders on initiatives that impact the entire organization. Your work will support business strategy, fit the organizational culture, and help attract, retain, and reward high-performance employees. You will consult with HR and management to align solutions with the organization's structure and analyze job content to ensure equity, competitiveness, and compliance.

What You'll Do:

• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with all areas of HR and corporate business leaders. Provides technical expertise in identifying, researching, analyzing and resolving compensation issues, ensuring compliance and making recommendations for modifications to compensation programs to meet business objectives. Maintains a full range of knowledge in organizational design, current market trends and the development, implementation and administration of compensation programs.

• Provides compensation consulting to business units by working directly with management, providing guidance on compensation policies and practices, problem definition and resolution, job evaluation, compensation training, and various compensation related issues. Conducts analysis of employee classification, jobs, salaries, and incentives in order to evaluate internal equity, external competitiveness, and legal compliance of the organization's pay practices. Makes recommendations regarding salary grades and market rates for specific jobs. Reviews salary and job actions for compliance with organization policy and budget. Participates in market surveys.

• Collaborate with other HR functional areas to ensure that compensation is an integral part of diversity, affirmative action, payroll, employment/selection initiatives, and supports the overall HR strategic direction. Makes presentations and conducts training groups, including presentations to top management on compensation related issues and topics (i.e. management training, compensation study results, etc.).

• Acts as primary administrator for compensation support systems, including access databases, market pricing system, vendor sites and other support systems. Manage relationships with compensation survey vendors. Identifies process improvement opportunities that will increase productivity and customer service. Works with management and departmental staff to document procedures and provides them to management for adherence to departmental/company quality management standards.

To Qualify For This Position, You'll Need The Following:

• Required Education: Bachelor's

• Required Work Experience: 5 years compensation experience including market pricing, job analysis, and/or salary survey participation.

• Required Skills and Abilities: Excellent judgment, quantitative/analytical and critical thinking skills. Demonstrated understanding of how Compensation programs effect an organization and successfully link it to processes. Thorough knowledge of wage and hour laws and regulations. Knowledge of laws and regulations that impact Human Resources processes. Ability to manage projects. Strong customer service, organizational, presentation skills. Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills. Strong math skills. Ability to handle confidential or sensitive information with discretion. In depth knowledge of FLSA exemption classifications, job evaluation methodologies. Advanced knowledge of principles of wage and salary administration along with market pricing. Demonstrated experience presenting recommendations to management, up to and including senior management.

• Required Software and Tools: Microsoft Office. Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including pivot tables, formulas, lookups and graphs/charts. HRIS, market pricing or similar compensation software.

We Prefer That You Have The Following:

• Preferred Education: Bachelor's degree in human resources/human resources management

• Preferred Software and Other Tools: Proficiency in Microsoft Access including form, table and query design.

• Preferred Licenses and Certificates: Certified Compensation Professional (CCP)

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package Includes The Following:

We offer our employees great benefits and rewards. You will be eligible to participate in the benefits the first of the month following 28 days of employment.

• Subsidized health plans, dental and vision coverage

• 401k retirement savings plan with company match

• Life Insurance

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• On-site cafeterias and fitness centers in major locations

• Education Assistance

• Service Recognition

• National discounts to movies, theaters, zoos, theme parks and more

What We Can Do for You:

We understand the value of a diverse and inclusive workplace and strive to be an employer where employees across all spectrums have the opportunity to develop their skills, advance their careers, and contribute their unique abilities to the growth of our company.

What to Expect Next:

After submitting your application, our recruiting team members will review your resume to ensure you meet the qualifications. This may include a brief telephone interview or email communication with our recruiter to verify resume specifics and salary requirements.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina and our subsidiary companies maintain a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in employment to promote employment opportunities for persons regardless of age, race, color, national origin, sex, religion, veteran status, disability, weight, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any other legally protected status. Additionally, as a federal contractor, the company maintains affirmative action programs to promote employment opportunities for individuals with disabilitiesand protected veterans. It is our policy to provide equal opportunities in all phases of the employment process and to comply with applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, pregnant individuals, individuals with pregnancy-related conditions, and individuals needing accommodations for sincerely held religious beliefs, provided that those accommodations do not impose an undue hardship on the Company.

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