Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UNFI is North America’s premier grocery wholesaler, delivering fresh, branded, and owned-brand products to community grocers and retail chains. The Compensation Program Manager will oversee enterprise compensation programs, including merit planning and incentive compensation, while managing compliance, analytics, communications, training, governance, and cross-functional project execution.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the annual compensation planning cycles, including annual merit budget setting, cycle scheduling, stakeholder communications, manager and HR training, executive reporting, governance, approvals, audit controls, and overall program oversight
- Partner with Total Payroll Operations, Finance, IT, and HR teams in the setup, testing, administration, and continuous improvement of systems, workflows, and processes supporting monthly, quarterly, and annual compensation cycles
- Provide executive updates, analytics, and reporting related to merit planning outcomes, budget utilization, pay-for-performance results, and compensation program effectiveness
- Manage incentive compensation plans in partnership with Finance, Sales, and business leaders, to define plan metrics, measures, weightings, and governance
- Design, administer, and evaluate short-term incentive programs, including modeling, scenario analysis, and plan documentation, in partnership with the Sr. Compensation Analyst - Incentives
- Ensure that incentive compensation plans and results are effectively communicated to participants
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting tools to monitor plan performance and payouts
- Ensure the accuracy of incentive plan eligibility, calculations, approvals, accruals, and payments through strong controls, audits, and administration processes
- Help drive continuous improvement of compensation plan design, administration, communications, and governance to help maximize plan effectiveness
- Develop and deliver compensation training and education tools to support a consistent understanding and application of compensation programs
- Ensure compensation compliance with federal, state, and local requirements, including pay equity, minimum wage, minimum salary thresholds, pay transparency regulations, FLSA classification standards, Department of Labor requirements, and state/provincial reporting obligations
- Monitor compensation programs to ensure alignment with the company’s compensation philosophy of pay-for-results, pay equity, and market competitiveness
- Serve as PMO lead for enterprise compensation projects, coordinating timelines, resources, governance, stakeholders, risks, dependencies, and implementation activities
- Maintain and enhance the enterprise compensation calendar to capture and track key dates related to compensation cycles, communications, training, and projects
- Help shape and implement improvements in compensation training, manager enablement, and communication strategies to support effective decision-making. Help ensure effective change management strategies for HR, managers, and business leaders specific to compensation
- Maintain compensation workflows, documentation, governance standards, and audit controls
- Support benchmarking, market pricing, salary structures, and job architecture
- Perform other duties as required
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, or related field
- 6–8 years of progressive compensation experience, with direct ownership of annual merit review cycles, incentive compensation design and administration, and compensation compliance programs
- Experience leading cross-functional projects and working with common HRIS systems and reporting tools (PeopleSoft, Workday, SAP or comparable HCM; PayScale/PayFactors or comparable survey/benchmarking tools)
- Advanced analytical skills: ability to interpret large datasets and build compensation models
- Deep knowledge of compensation regulations, pay equity analytics, FLSA classification standards, and market pricing methodologies
- Proficiency with Excel, HRIS, reporting dashboards, and compensation planning tools
- Strong written and verbal communication, presentation development (PowerPoint) and change management skills
- Strong project management skills
- Ability to manage multiple complex programs simultaneously and work collaboratively across functions
- Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available
- CCP or PHR is a plus
- Understanding of best practice PM methodologies (Lean, Agile, Waterfall, etc.) a plus
Benefits
- Candidates hired into this position will also be eligible to participate in Paid Time Off, subject to meeting the eligibility requirements and the terms and conditions of these programs, and subject to any requirements under applicable collective bargaining agreements.
- Candidates hired into this position will also be eligible to participate in Sick Time, subject to meeting the eligibility requirements and the terms and conditions of these programs, and subject to any requirements under applicable collective bargaining agreements.
- Candidates hired into this position will also be eligible to participate in paid holidays and parental leave, subject to meeting the eligibility requirements and the terms and conditions of these programs, and subject to any requirements under applicable collective bargaining agreements.
- Candidates hired into this position will also be eligible to participate in the 401K Program, subject to meeting the eligibility requirements and the terms and conditions of these programs, and subject to any requirements under applicable collective bargaining agreements.
- Candidates hired into this position will also be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision, life, and accidental death/dismemberment insurance, subject to meeting the eligibility requirements and the terms and conditions of these programs, and subject to any requirements under applicable collective bargaining agreements.
- Candidates hired into this position will also be eligible to participate in the short-term and long-term disability insurance program, subject to meeting the eligibility requirements and the terms and conditions of these programs, and subject to any requirements under applicable collective bargaining agreements.
- Candidates hired into this position will also be eligible to participate in a Flexible Spending Account and/or Health Savings Account, subject to meeting the eligibility requirements and the terms and conditions of these programs, and subject to any requirements under applicable collective bargaining agreements.
- This position is classified as remote where the associate will perform remote work from their primary residence. Remote associates are welcome to work from the office but are not required to do so.
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