HR Compensation Partner

At Bakelite, you’ll help us create a better tomorrow with sustainable and innovative chemistry today.

We’re Everywhere. Everywhere you look, you’ll find products enabled by Bakelite, from stronger homes to safer automobiles and everywhere in between. With more than 100 years of history and strong customer relationships, we boldly engineer sustainable products to tackle our world’s most challenging demands.

Join Our Team and Help Us Build a Stronger, Safer, Better World.

It’s Better with Bakelite.

HR Compensation Partner: The Impact You’ll Have On The Organization and World

• You’ll play an important role in our people strategy. You will develop competitive and equitable compensation programs that attract top talent, retain key employees, and drive overall job satisfaction, fostering a motivated and high-performing workforce.
• You’ll think strategically. Leveraging your expertise in designing and implementing pay structures, you will create compensation strategies that align with organizational goals, driving business growth, enhancing performance, and ensuring long-term sustainability.
• You’ll be a valued team member. By establishing compensation policies that prioritize equity, fairness, and compliance with local and global regulations, you will foster a diverse, inclusive workplace while upholding ethical pay practices.
  
  
  

It's Better with Bakelite: Our Commitment Back to You

• You’ll Help Shape Our Future. As a Bakelite associate, you’re part of a diverse, global population creating the next generation of the company and we expect you to put your fingerprint on it.
• We Champion Our Associates. At Bakelite, you don’t just climb the career ladder – you pave your personal path through continued learning and development.
• Together, We Will Protect the Planet. From our processes to our products, we are focusing on the opportunities that both grow our profitability as a company, and improve and protect the planet.
• Safety is a Core Value. At Bakelite, safety is a 24/7 mindset. We are all safe today to ensure we are able to show up tomorrow – for our families and friends, for each other and for our communities.
• We Care. Plain and simple, we care about our associates. From the top on down, we place a high value on our culture and the associate experience. We offer competitive compensation, robust benefits and support our associates every step.
  
  
  

What Does a Typical Day Look Like? Here are your primary responsibilities:

• Develop, implement and support the administration of global compensation policies, programs and philosophy aligned with business objectives.
• Manage the global job architecture, ensuring a consistent methodology for job evaluation and alignment across geographies.
• Develop recommendations and implement global salary structures to ensure market competitiveness.
• Analyze market trends and internal data to recommend and implement enhancements to compensation programs ensuring competitiveness and effectiveness.
• Assist in development of compliant job descriptions.
• Review requests for new or revised job classifications to determine appropriate market and internal alignment of salary grade assignments.
• Lead market analysis of jobs to determine competitive positioning of the organization's pay programs, including base pay and short- and long-term incentive pay.
• Manage the compensation survey life cycle including global and regional survey participation.
• Provide input to global pay planning and salary budget processes.
• Develop and implement communication and training strategies to ensure understanding of the company’s compensation program and philosophy for current managers and associates including those acquired through M&A.
• Participate in and provide recommendations as part of the M&A HR due diligence process regarding job alignment, compensation plans and incentive plans.
• Develop recommendations on short term or long-term incentive compensation plans, bonus plans, sales compensation and/or executive compensation.
• Recommend solutions to resolve complex compensation-related issues.
• Identify and improve compensation process efficiencies and ensures data integrity within Payfactors, the compensation survey management system.
• Review and ensure compensation programs are compliant with all federal/state/local regulations, including FLSA and statutory requirements.
• Research proposed statutory requirements governing compensation administration and identifies gaps or areas needing additional research.
• Partner and collaborate with human resources, finance, legal and business leaders to ensure governance in compensation programs.
• Manage compensation survey provider relationships including annual renewal process.
  
  
  

What is Needed to be Successful in this Role (Required Skills/Abilities) :

• Bachelor’s Degree required. Advanced Degree and/or Certified Comp Professional (CCP) certification preferred.
• 15 years’ relevant experience. Experience with M&A, Incentive Plan Design and Payfactors a plus.
• Works independently to meet deadlines.
• Expertise in Excel, PowerPoint and compensation survey management systems.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, analytical thinking and collaboration skills.
• Ability to effectively present ideas and recommendations to all organizational levels, both verbally and in writing.
• Grasps complexities and connections among problems or issues, able to prioritize solutions.
• Ability to seek out and analyze data from a variety of sources to support decisions and align key stakeholders.
• Systems thinker with a proactive approach, anticipates problems before they arise.
• Ability to create solutions using innovative methods and critical thinking skills.
• Proven ability to interpret complex data and market trends to inform strategic decision-making.
• Remote role with the ability to travel as needed.
  
  
  

Are you ready to help us build a better tomorrow and put your fingerprints on the world? Apply for this exciting opportunity, and learn more about our hiring process, insights from our global associates, our robust benefits and more at Bakelite.com/careers.

We are an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, minority status, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any characteristic protected by law.

In order to be considered for this position candidates are required to submit an application for employment through our career site, be at least 18 years or age, willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation as part of the selection process, as well as additional periodic background checks as required by the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) or regulations adopted by the Department of Homeland Security or other regulatory agencies. Candidates are required to have unrestricted authorization to work in the United States. This company participates in E-Verify. For additional details, click HERE .

If currently an employee of the Company, you must have satisfactory work performance. Disclaimer: We are not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms/employment agencies for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails to an employee about this position. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee of the Company via email, the Internet or in any other form and/or method without a valid written search firm agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of the Company; no fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by the Company as a result of the unsolicited referral or through other means.

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