About the position
Amazon's Compensation team is seeking a Sr. Compensation Consultant to provide strategic compensation support to our AWS Sales and Marketing organizations. At Amazon, our businesses continue to grow and expand because of our customer focus, innovative technologies, and world class operations. Driving all of our businesses are talented employees who are strong owners, have the highest standards, and obsess over our customers. As Sr. Compensation Consultant, you will be responsible for delivering on the compensation needs in AWS' Sales and Marketing businesses through strategic, analytical and consulting services. You will work directly with the HR and Business leadership to build and evolve compensation programs that directly support the business's strategic objectives and provide hands-on assistance related to all areas of compensation analysis. We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fast-moving environment and are comfortable dealing with ambiguity. You must have a passion to work with complex data, and be detailed and accurate from start to finish in developing programs and completing projects. The successful candidate will proactively partner with client-facing HR Business Partners and Business leadership to identify and address compensation issues, and evangelize Amazon's Total Compensation philosophy and strategy.
Responsibilities
- Partner with HR leadership and teams to develop and implement compensation strategies for multiple functional areas within AWS Sales and Marketing.
- Deliver on projects including program design, analysis, budgeting, and implementation of new programs.
- Write detailed and compelling papers to articulate the findings and recommendations from your analysis to a non-technical audience.
- Perform deep analysis on effectiveness and competitiveness of existing compensation programs and model potential impact of alternatives and future programs.
- Partner with regional and global compensation partners on local, regional or global issues, and work on a variety of special compensation projects as needed.
- Provide advice to the business and develop creative solutions on a variety of total compensation issues including the setting of appropriate pay levels, base pay, annual incentive pay and stock compensation.
- Consult with business on job evaluations using market data and internal evaluation.
- Document processes and build compensation playbooks.
- Conduct custom surveys with key industry contacts, as needed.
Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree is required. Graduate degree preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years experience in finance, compensation, or consulting with an in-depth knowledge of core compensation terminology and best practices.
- General compensation knowledge required.
Nice-to-haves
- Sales compensation experience highly preferred.
- Proficiency in Excel Macros; familiarity with SQL, Power BI, Power Pivot and Tableau experience is preferred.
- Strong problem solving, communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to create dynamic tools and models to interpret and analyze data.
- Ability to connect disparate data sources and operationalize tasks.
- Comfortable with large data sets.
- Experience enhancing and/or implementing compensation systems and reporting tools.
Benefits
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
