Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Heartland Dental is the nation's largest dental support organization, providing non-clinical administrative support services to dental offices across the United States. The Compensation Analyst plays a key role in supporting the organization's total rewards strategy through the analysis, administration, and continuous improvement of compensation programs, working collaboratively with various departments to drive informed compensation decisions.
Responsibilities
- Support the development and maintenance of compensation frameworks, pay ranges, and reporting
- Advise on pay philosophy, program design, and total rewards strategy
- Develop insights that tell a clear, actionable story for leaders, connecting pay decisions, incentives, performance, and retention outcomes
- Conduct ad-hoc compensation analysis and advise on correct band placement for specific roles or positions
- Collect, analyze, and interpret external market compensation data using tools such as MarketPay/PayFactors, ERI, LightCast, and BLS to ensure pay practices remain competitive and aligned with business needs
- Assist in market pricing and benchmarking efforts to ensure positions remain externally competitive and internally equitable
- Lead participation in annual and ad hoc salary surveys, ensuring data accuracy and timely submissions
- Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to support compensation decisions, workforce planning, and talent retention strategies
- Translate complex compensation data into concise summaries and visualizations that enhance understanding and transparency for non-technical stakeholders
- Support ongoing enhancements to compensation dashboards and reporting outputs to better meet organizational needs
- Analyze and surface patterns, trends, and outliers in compensation and rewards, identifying opportunities or risks related to retention and competitiveness
- Partner in the job evaluation and job leveling process ensuring jobs are mapped properly to the job architecture across the organization
- Support the annual merit and compensation planning cycle
- Contribute to strategic compensation projects that strengthen program effectiveness, improve consistency, and support employee engagement and retention
- Partner with Compensation leadership on continuous improvement of compensation processes, tools, and documentation
- Support the development and delivery of compensation training and education for people managers and leadership teams, improving confidence and capability in pay-related decisions
- Build and maintain strong cross functional relationships to ensure compensation practices are understood, applied consistently, and aligned with operational realities
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, finance, related field, or equivalent experience
- 2-4 years of compensation or human resources experience, with a focus on hourly or broad-based pay programs
- Experience working with HRIS and compensation systems such as UKG, Workday, ERI, and MarketPay/PayFactors
- Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to draw insights from complex data sets
- Proven presentation and communication skills, including the ability to explain compensation concepts clearly to managers and leaders
- Solid understanding of compensation methodologies, job architecture, and salary structures
- Experience supporting compensation and rewards programs in a large, multi-site environment or within the healthcare industry strongly preferred
- Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) or equivalent certification
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