Senior Compensation Manager - job 1 of 2

Do you want to develop your career and make an impact in the fast-growth, fast-moving B2B technology space?

At Informa TechTarget, you’ll collaborate and grow alongside some of the industry’s most respected experts. You’ll work with leading brands and be exposed to the “next big things”. You’ll apply your energy and intellect to helping clients be faster to market and faster to revenue.

We’re a vibrant community of world-class practitioners – over 2000 colleagues strong – with offices in 19 locations around the world. We’re traded on Nasdaq and we’re also part of Informa Plc, a global leader in business-to-business events, digital services, and academic research in the FTSE 100.

About Informa TechTarget

Informa TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT) informs, influences and connects the world’s technology buyers and sellers, to accelerate growth from R&D to ROI.

With an unparalleled reach of over 220 highly targeted technology-specific websites and more than 50 million permissioned first-party audience members, Informa TechTarget has a unique understanding of and insight into technology markets.

Underpinned by those audiences and their data, we offer expert-led, data-driven, and digitally enabled services that deliver significant impact and measurable outcomes to our clients. We provide our customers with:

• Trusted information that shapes the industry and informs investment
• Intelligence and advice that guides and influences strategy
• Advertising that grows reputation and establishes thought leadership
• Custom content that engages and prompts action
• Intent and demand generation that more precisely targets and converts

Our organization is committed to sustainability, diversity, wellbeing, and ethical working practices.

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We are seeking a Senior Compensation Manager to join the senior leadership team within Informa TechTarget Human Resources. In this role, you will work closely with the division’s Chief People Officer to roll out Informa TechTarget’s comprehensive total rewards strategy across all areas, including stock/equity programs. You will lead compensation programs for employees, leveraging in-depth analysis and insights to develop strategic, commercially driven solutions that support business growth within the division.

You will guide business partners and leaders through the annual compensation cycle to ensure clarity, operational excellence, and efficiency. In collaboration with Informa Group’s Global Head of Reward & Benefits and the Reward Leads for our other divisions, you will maintain consistency and alignment in our reward strategies and programs as needed.

Your role will also involve ensuring that our strategies remain competitive in the marketplace, comply with all legal and regulatory requirements, and promote colleague engagement. Key responsibilities will include driving reward policies, managing salary structures, overseeing bonus and commission incentives, and handling stock and equity programs for NASDAQ-listed Informa TechTarget, part of Informa plc, a FTSE 100 company.

Key areas of responsibilities will include:

Reward

• Divisional Salary Management – Oversee pay budgets and spend, providing analysis, insights, and controls to ensure effective salary management. Lead on benchmarking, salary range development, annual pay reviews, out-of-cycle increases, Gender Pay Gap reporting, and senior executive compensation strategies.
• Short Term Incentives – Support the design and delivery of annual incentive plans including the target setting process, colleague communications and payment process.  Responsible for driving consistent and bespoke incentive arrangements as and when required for the division across all annual incentives including bonus and sales commission plans.
• Long-Term Incentives (LTI) – In compliance with SEC requirements, advise the division CPO, Group HR Director, and Group Global Head of Reward & Benefits on the design, research, funding, delivery, and management of the long-term stock/equity program for Informa TechTarget, a NASDAQ listed entity. 
• Supporting Compensation Committee Content – Provide analysis and support the creation of Board materials to be shared with Informa TechTarget’s Compensation Committee in compliance with public company standards and requirements.  Includes working with Compensation Committee advisors on Executive Compensation analysis and recommendations.
• Competitiveness – Provide insights and research that supports the competitiveness of reward at Informa TechTarget by analyzing market trends, industry standards and competitive practices. Assist with assessing current compensation levels and mix relative to the external market and to internal peers. Participate in and organize data from market compensation surveys to assist with ongoing competitive analyses.
• Job Levelling – Work with the Group Global Head of Reward & Benefits to research, develop, and drive the introduction of a consistent job leveling framework to aid the integration of Informa TechTarget into the wider Informa Group and the development of a career pathing structure across both the division and Group.

Benefits

• Benefit Programs – Will work in partnership with the Benefits lead to ensure the integration and management of colleague benefits programs is well managed, including, but not limited to, healthcare, pensions, insurance, wellness initiatives and voluntary programs. 

Leadership

• Team Management – be active in Informa TechTarget’s senior HR Leadership team.
• Reward Partnerships in the business – Collaborate with other division Reward Leads, Finance, and key stakeholders to ensure alignment and integration of reward strategies across the division and the wider Group.
• Reward Consultancy – Provide key partnership and reward consultancy support as and when required. Act as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor on all reward-related matters for the division.
• Change Management – Lead change management initiatives related to reward programs, ensuring smooth implementation and colleague buy-in.
• Compliance – Ensure all Reward policies comply with relevant local laws, regulations and reporting requirements relevant to a publicly traded, global company.  Stay current with industry trends and legislative changes impacting total reward.

• Previous experience in a divisional reward role within a regulated PLC environment.
• Experience with a US-listed organization, ideally NASDAQ, including knowledge of its regulatory requirements and reward programs.
• Managed and attended compensation committee meetings as needed.
• Developed and delivered Long Term Incentive Plans (LTIPs) for a US-listed company.
• Familiar with reward transitions from Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A).
• Supported global reward initiatives in a fast-paced environment, building collaborative relationships at all levels.
• Relevant degree or professional qualification (e.g., CIPD).
• Ability to understand complex financial performance metrics for incentive and commission plan development.
• Skilled in building trust with senior executives.
• Experience managing large vendor relationships across countries with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of key reward programs that drive effective behaviors.

The salary range for this role is $130k - $150k,depending on experience

This posting will automatically expire on 3/28/2025

TechTarget, Inc., doing business as Informa TechTarget, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment. Informa TechTarget complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable federal, state or local law.

Our benefits include:

• Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive, and we support a range of working patterns
• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
• Time out: 15 days PTO rising to 20 after three years and 25 after six years, plus 10 national holidays, a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• Competitive benefits, including a 401k match, health, vision and dental insurance, parental leave and an ESPP offering company shares at a minimum 15% discount Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, free access to a wellness app and more
• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programs
• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

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