[Remote] Human Resources Paid Consultant - Merit Cycle, Salary Structures & Benchmarking

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LinkedIn is seeking experienced compensation and total rewards professionals for a project-based engagement. The role involves completing a recorded AI-led video interview focusing on annual compensation planning, merit cycle administration, salary structure design, and benchmarking based on real-world experience.

Responsibilities

• Running annual merit and compensation planning cycles, including guidelines, budgets, population validation, manager planning, approvals, and payroll/HRIS handoff
• Building and maintaining salary structures, market benchmarks, job matches, range updates, geographic differentials, and market-pricing artifacts
• Managing compensation guardrails, calibration forums, red-circle or green-circle exceptions, re-leveling decisions, and remediation workflows
• Navigating pay transparency, pay-equity review inputs, approval documentation, stakeholder communication, and compliance-driven compensation controls
• You will be asked to explain workflows specifically within: annual compensation planning, merit cycle administration, salary structure design, benchmarking, market pricing, and compensation governance workflows

Skills

• 8+ years in compensation, total rewards, compensation planning, market pricing, salary structures, or compensation operations
• Direct, hands-on experience in annual compensation planning, merit cycle administration, salary structure design, benchmarking, market pricing, and compensation governance workflows
• Experience making or influencing decisions related to merit guidelines, budget allocation, market matches, salary ranges, pay zones, calibration decisions, exception handling, approvals, and payroll/HRIS reconciliation
• Familiarity with tools such as: Workday Advanced Compensation, MarketPay, PayScale, Radford/Aon, Mercer, WTW, CompXL, Excel, Power BI, Tableau, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM
• Strong ability to clearly explain workflows, decisions, and reasoning
• Experience owning or directly executing these workflows in a real production environment
• Experience working cross-functionally with HR, legal, payroll, finance, HRIS, business leaders, people managers, or compensation committee stakeholders as relevant to the workflow

Benefits

• One-time, project-based interview
• Remote
• Participants will control their own schedule
• Participants provide their own tools to complete the interview
• May participate in other opportunities as they choose

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