Specialist, Compensation and Benefits

As a Compensation and Benefits Analyst in the Global Total Rewards team, your main responsibility is to evaluate and recommend salary structures and benefits packages for employees. You will need to analyze current pay practices and benefits offerings, conduct research on industry trends, and recommend changes to ensure that a company is competitive in attracting and retaining the best talent. In this role, you'll also collaborate with senior leadership and HR teams to develop and implement compensation and benefits programs and policies that reflect the organization's goals, values, and culture. You'll use data analysis tools to identify areas for improvement and recommend solutions that are both practical and cost-effective. You will report to the VP of Total Rewards.,

• Manage and support the development and implementation of compensation and benefits programs, policies, and procedures to be responsive to Coherent's strategic initiatives, organizational goals, and competitive practices, global short and long-term equity compensation, including the Employee Stock Purchase Plan, sales incentive compensation, and executive compensation.
• Manage the annual compensation review process, which includes systems management, budget analysis, data analysis, and consulting and training management on a global platform.
• Develop, implement and monitor the effectiveness of new benefits programs.
• Collect and analyze data on employee compensation and benefits programs.
• Communicate with employees regarding compensation and benefits packages.
• Manage and support systems, tools, and methods to ensure scalability and growth owing to M&A and other activities, as needed.
• Manage job design/analysis, documentation and evaluation, market data research, survey submissions, statistical analysis, and other daily compensation activities and operations.
• Partner with HR Business Partners, Finance/Tax, and Legal during annual review, promotion, and retention processes.
• Manage and collaborate on compensation-related and ad-hoc projects, as required.
  BA or BS degree required.
• Minimum of 8 years related experience with compensation and financial analysis with increasing levels of responsibility (Radford professional level 4/5); global experience preferred
• Expert in Excel, PowerPoint, and Oracle
• Working experience with a BI tool (i.e., Power BI, Tableau, etc.) is a plus
• Understanding of data privacy programs and regulatory requirements for managing data (GDPR, California Data Privacy Act, PIPL), Ability to work independently to address data requests and perform analysis on large, complex data sets; extremely detail-oriented
• Must be able to handle sensitive information with discretion, and have proven ability for flexibility and managing multiple priorities
• Possess strong strategic orientation, analytical skills, critical thinking ability, and be able to evaluate interdependencies within cross-functional projects
• Proven ability to work with minimal guidance, manage multiple priorities simultaneously, and take initiative even under unfamiliar or ambiguous circumstances
• Comfort working in a high-volume, fast-paced, rapidly changing, results-oriented global work environment.