Compensation Specialist

Sentara Hospitals
  • Norfolk, Virginia
  • $80,953.60–$119,912 Per Year
  • Autofill and Review
6 days ago

Job Description

City/State

Norfolk, VA

Work Shift

First (Days)

Overview:

The Compensation Specialist serves as a key analytical and consultative partner to the Compensation team, supporting the administration and delivery of compensation programs across the organization. This role contributes to ensuring compensation practices are market competitive, internallyequitable, and aligned with organizational guidelines.

The Compensation Specialist partners closely with Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners, and business leaders to support offer development, market pricing, and internal equity reviews. This positionis responsible forconducting foundational to moderately complex analyses and translating data into clear, actionable recommendations.

The role also supports annual compensation processes through data validation, auditing, and reporting, helping to ensureaccurateand consistent program execution. The Specialist contributes to continuous improvement of compensation processes, tools, and documentation.

Education

Preferred:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, Analytics, or a related field 

Certification/Licensure

Preferred:

  • Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) or progress toward certification

Experience

  • Minimum of 2 years of experience in compensation analysis, including market pricing, pay range administration, and internal equity reviews

  • Experience supporting Talent Acquisition with offer analysis and compensation recommendations

  • Experience interpreting and applying compensation guidelines to employee and manager inquiries

  • Experience preparing data-driven insights and recommendations for HR and business partners

  • Strong Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and data analysis

  • Experience working with HRIS and compensation planning tools (Workday&MarketPaypreferred)

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay range for full-time employment is $80,953.60 - $119,912.00 annually. Additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call pay, shift premiums, extra-shift incentives, or bonus opportunities. Compensation within the range may vary based on qualifications, experience, location, market conditions, and business needs. Note: If an annual salary is posted, it is based on a full-time colleague working 2,080 hours annually. Sentara offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; 401(k)/403(b) with employer match; paid time off (vacation, sick time, and holidays); paid parental and military leave; educational assistance or student loan repayment; and voluntary benefits.

Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career

• Medical, Dental, Vision plans

• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000

• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave

• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave

• Emergency Backup Care

• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans

• Life Insurance

• 401k/403B with Employer Match

• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education

• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000

•Pet Insurance •Legal Resources Plan•Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work,Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Numbers & Facts

LocationNorfolk, Virginia
Salary$80,953.60–$119,912 Per Year

Skills

  • Analysis Skillsunmatched
  • Auditingunmatched
  • Business Administrationunmatched
  • Certified Compensation Professionalunmatched
  • Channel Strategiesunmatched
  • Compensation Analysisunmatched
  • Compensation and Benefitsunmatched
  • Continuous Improvementunmatched
  • Data Analysisunmatched
  • Data Processingunmatched
  • Data Qualityunmatched
  • Dental Insuranceunmatched
  • Diversityunmatched
  • Documentationunmatched
  • Emergency Careunmatched
  • Financial Analysisunmatched
  • HRIS/HRMSunmatched
  • Human Resourcesunmatched
  • Insuranceunmatched
  • Legalunmatched
  • Life Insuranceunmatched
  • Mergers and Acquisitionsunmatched
  • Microsoft Excelunmatched
  • Pivot Tablesunmatched
  • Pricingunmatched
  • Process Improvementunmatched
  • Process Validationunmatched
  • Stock Administrationunmatched
  • Tuition Feesunmatched
  • Vision Planunmatched
  • Work From Homeunmatched

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