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Lead Compensation Analyst

Gallagher Benefit Services
Rolling Meadows, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 3/7/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/7/2025
Introduction

Discover a world of endless possibilities at Gallagher Benefit Services, where you'll have the power to shape the future of workplaces across industries. As a member of our team, you become the driving force behind positive change, helping clients build environments where employees thrive. Embrace the opportunity to impact lives, unlock potential, and create a legacy of remarkable transformation.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.


Overview

Reporting to the Incentive Compensation Manager, the Compensation Specialist Analyst will be responsible for collecting, analyzing, and summarizing human capital data and compensation information to make people-related decisions. This role will partner in the development, consultation, and implementation of compensation programs and tools to assist in our ability to attract, retain, motivate and develop our employees.


How you'll make an impact
  • Partners with division compensation specialist and business and HR leaders to provide expertise in the design and implementation of domestic and international sales compensation plans.
  • Serves as subject matter authority and consults on all aspects of sales compensation.
  • Performs complex analysis to ensure efficacy and appropriateness of incentive compensation programs.
  • Creates tools to drive efficiency, effectiveness, and consistency of variable compensation projects
  • Leads complex compensation projects that involve high analytical skills
  • Analyzes business data to understand potential sales plan metrics and models sales compensation plan scenarios.
  • Partners with divisional business and HR leaders to develop action plans and to create communication plans for the launch of new compensation plans
  • Collaborates with Incentive Compensation Manager to build sales compensation policies and documents variable compensation policies to ensure alignment with market and best practices
  • Presents sales compensation reviews and recommendations to management and builds sales compensation reviews for compensation committee/board.
  • Consults with divisional business and HR leaders to develop training, presentation, and other materials for sales compensation program rollouts.
  • Position may be responsible for building business cases for sales compensation technology tools and assisting in any related procurement and implementation.

About You

Required:
  • Bachelors degree
  • Minimum 7 years related experience.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Power Point, and expert knowledge of Excel.
  • Ability to prepare clear, concise, and complete analysis, proposals, presentations, reports and other written materials.
Highly Preferred:
  • Experience in design of sales compensation plans
  • Ability to partner with all levels of employees, including executives
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills
  • Strong communication/presentation skills
  • Ability to remain flexible and adapt to change
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Compensation and benefits


On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

  • Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
  • Life and accident insurance
  • 401(K) and Roth options
  • Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
  • Educational expense reimbursement
  • Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

  • Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
  • Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
  • Training programs
  • Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
  • Charitable matching gift program
  • And more...

We value inclusion and diversity

Click Here to review our U.S. Eligibility Requirements and Pay Disclosure Statement

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

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