[Remote] Human Resources Paid Consultant - Merit Cycle, Salary Structures & Benchmarking
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LinkedIn is seeking experienced compensation and total rewards professionals for a project-based engagement. The role involves completing a recorded AI-led video interview focusing on annual compensation planning, merit cycle administration, salary structure design, and benchmarking based on real-world experience.
Responsibilities
- Running annual merit and compensation planning cycles, including guidelines, budgets, population validation, manager planning, approvals, and payroll/HRIS handoff
- Building and maintaining salary structures, market benchmarks, job matches, range updates, geographic differentials, and market-pricing artifacts
- Managing compensation guardrails, calibration forums, red-circle or green-circle exceptions, re-leveling decisions, and remediation workflows
- Navigating pay transparency, pay-equity review inputs, approval documentation, stakeholder communication, and compliance-driven compensation controls
- You will be asked to explain workflows specifically within: annual compensation planning, merit cycle administration, salary structure design, benchmarking, market pricing, and compensation governance workflows
Skills
- 8+ years in compensation, total rewards, compensation planning, market pricing, salary structures, or compensation operations
- Direct, hands-on experience in annual compensation planning, merit cycle administration, salary structure design, benchmarking, market pricing, and compensation governance workflows
- Experience making or influencing decisions related to merit guidelines, budget allocation, market matches, salary ranges, pay zones, calibration decisions, exception handling, approvals, and payroll/HRIS reconciliation
- Familiarity with tools such as: Workday Advanced Compensation, MarketPay, PayScale, Radford/Aon, Mercer, WTW, CompXL, Excel, Power BI, Tableau, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM
- Strong ability to clearly explain workflows, decisions, and reasoning
- Experience owning or directly executing these workflows in a real production environment
- Experience working cross-functionally with HR, legal, payroll, finance, HRIS, business leaders, people managers, or compensation committee stakeholders as relevant to the workflow
Benefits
- One-time, project-based interview
- Remote
- Participants will control their own schedule
- Participants provide their own tools to complete the interview
- May participate in other opportunities as they choose
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