Senior Manager, Compensation Partnership

For nearly 70 years, MasterBrand has been shaping the places where people come together, enriching lives and creating meaningful memories for our customers. That, combined with our stylish products, expansive dealer and retail network, and dedicated associates, has helped make us the number one North American residential cabinet business. Our unique culture of continuous improvement is based on trusting the tools, empowering the team and moving forward, and is kept alive by our more than 14,000 associates across 20 plus manufacturing facility and offices. Visit www.masterbrand.com to learn more and join us in building great experiences together!

The Senior Manager, Compensation Partnership role owns the strategy, implementation, communication, business partnership, and administration of the company's compensation programs, including base pay, incentive pay, equity, and recognition.   Through close collaboration and strategic partnership with the HR team and business, this role designs and delivers total rewards programs and processes (new, annual activities, and modified) focused on the leader and associate experience to enable our best place-to-work culture.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of compensation partners to deliver high quality, operationally excellent work and provide informed guidance to support our continuously changing business needs through conducting analysis, understanding market data and trends, and proactively translating our compensation strategy and programs into a practical execution plan.
• Support the develop of and sustain a 3-year total rewards strategy roadmap that considers best practice tools, external market trends, and MasterBrand’s business strategy. 
• Provide direct consultative and strategic partnering efforts to human resources and business leaders to maximize the organization’s performance. Reinforce the mindsets and capabilities required to best use our compensation programs and ensure a strong ROI on using key HR systems, tools, and processes.
• Build an understanding of our total rewards offerings by driving associate and leader engagement through effective communications and easy-to-use programs.
• Lead end-to-end compensation processes, including survey management, annual compensation planning, salary structure reviews, etc., with a strong focus on operational execution on time, complete, and accurate.
• Develop, sustain, and evolve a job architecture that provides a foundation for HR and compensation practices and analytics, enables talent initiatives, and drives equitable, efficient, and transparent programs.
• Continuously identify and drive process improvement utilizing our lean tools to effectively prioritize, leverage technology, and deliver operationally excellent programs and processes to the business.
• Develop and execute our annual calendar of core total rewards activities.
• Develop the wage-related budget for the company based on market data and competitiveness, internal pay equity, etc..  Monitor the budget to actual and proactively communicate variances. 
• Ensure proactive compliance with government (federal, state, and local) regulations through regular monitoring, planning, and program modifications.
• Lead initiatives that improve the associate experience creating a best place-to-work culture.

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, or a related field or equivalent experience is required in addition to 10+ years of a combination of compensation and benefits program implementation and managerial responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience delivering and developing a team who delivers high quality, operationally excellent work.
• Experience in the analysis, delivery, and business consulting of compensation programs is required. 
• Strong attention to detail, confidentiality, execution, and communication skills are required. 
• Advanced MS Office skills are required – especially Excel.  HRIS experience required, Workday implementation, configuration, and maintenance experience a plus.
• Must possess strong analytical reasoning, problem-solving, and the ability to influence and communicate at all levels in the organization.
• Ability to influence, problem-solve, and successfully collaborate and communicate with stakeholders of various levels
• Well organized and confident to work independently but a strong team player.
• Ability to effectively multi-task and balance priorities with a sense of urgency.
• Occasional travel required.

Equal Employment Opportunity

MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is an equal opportunity employer. MasterBrand Cabinets LLC’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability/handicap status, marital status, military status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. MasterBrand Cabinets LLC also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also MasterBrand Cabinets LLC’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Reasonable Accommodations

MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment, please contact us at [email protected].