Manager, Compensation

Guitar Center's Compensation Manager is a strategic, hands-on role that provides an opportunity to manage all enterprise compensation programs and processes and will work closely with departmental and cross-functional business partners to ensure enterprise-wide alignment with compensation philosophies, all aspects of pay, and incentive plans.

Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Total Rewards, our Compensation Manager must be a forward-thinker who can articulate a clear strategy and vision across all related Guitar Center enterprise-wide programs in order to accelerate our compensation offerings and advance Guitar Center's position as an employer of choice.

RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES

• Plan, develop, implement, administer, and effectively communicate Enterprise-wide compensation programs, policies, and procedures and monitor compliance

• Apply deep business knowledge to evolve and develop compensation programs that inform long-term business decisions and priorities

• Lead compensation program implementation, change management and measurement of program success

• Drive results by tracking key operational metrics, identifying process improvement opportunities and delivering on strategic initiatives

• Initiate programs and policies to protect and improve the quality of compensation data, manage the gathering and documentation of technical requirements and processes

• Manage and oversee the bonus plan process and executive compensation

• Evaluates jobs, benchmarks, and review job offers for internal and external equity.

• Participates in compensation surveys to collect and analyze salary information to determine company's competitive positions

• Review and make recommendations to compensation policies and processes

• Serve as a compensation advisor to management throughout the Enterprise

• Ensures company compliance with existing legal employment requirements (EEO, FLSA, wage hour) -- both individually and through communication and training of department and location managers -- and local laws governing compensation

• Supervises and manages support personnel within the compensation team as it relates to all projects or related work, establishes performance requirements, clarifies responsibilities of those supervised, conducts performance appraisals and plans for individual employee improvement

• Additional duties as assigned.