Compensation Business Partner - North America

$110K — $151K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Finance, or related field.
  • 5 years' experience in Compensation.
  • Ability to provide pragmatic, commercially focused reward solutions within a global context.
  • Understanding of North American compensation practices and market trends.
  • Strong communication skills with a proven track record of stakeholder influence.
  • Problem-solving abilities with experience in ambiguous situations.
  • Mindset for simplification demonstrated in process improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Lead projects related to compensation and benefits involving regulatory changes and market competitiveness.
  • Develop reward strategies that facilitate attraction and retention of high-potential talent.
  • Integrate differentiated rewards into talent development programs with the Talent CoE.
  • Maintain and update local reward policies as needed.
  • Recommend improvements for reward processes in line with HR transformation.
  • Enhance compensation frameworks, ensuring alignment and accuracy.
  • Redesign benefit policies to reflect legislative changes and operational needs.

Benefits

  • Generous 401(k) plan and tuition reimbursement.
  • 6 months of paid parental leave.
  • Eligibility for healthcare benefits from day one, with the majority of coverage paid by the company.
  • Discretionary bonus opportunities based on business performance.
  • Comprehensive benefits package as part of the Total Reward offering.
Full Job Description

The Compensation Business Partner, North America is a key role within HR, partnering closely with the Senior Compensation Reward Business Partner to align reward strategy with business priorities. You will help shape and deliver a compelling total reward approach that supports talent outcomes and organizational performance, balancing global frameworks with local market and regulatory needs. This role interprets stakeholder requirements, monitors trends, and develops practical, innovative solutions within established policy and governance. Acting as a trusted advisor to HR and business leaders, you will provide guidance across compensation, benefits, talent acceleration, and reward governance.

Key responsibilities


Reward Partnership

  • Lead compensation and benefits-related projects tied to regulatory change, market competitiveness, and business transformation.

  • Develop reward approaches that enable attraction, retention and acceleration of critical and high-potential talent.

  • Work with the Talent CoE to integrate differentiated reward into talent development and career programs.

  • Assist with maintaining and updating local reward policies.

  • Make recommendations for continuous improvement and simplification of reward processes and practices in conjunction with broader HR Transformation framework.

Compensation Architecture & Governance

  • Identify improvements and drive consistency and accuracy of compensation frameworks, job architecture alignment and data standards.

  • Drive and embed reward governance principles across markets and employee segments.

Strategic Benefits Design

  • Help shape inclusive benefits strategy, with focus on equity and segment‑specific needs.

  • Identify opportunities to review and redesign benefit policies to reflect legislative changes and operational feasibility and build business case in partnership with the Benefits CoE.

  • Ensure employee experience remains central to all design and policy decisions.

Insights, Analytics & Thought Leadership

  • Provide strategic insights through reward analytics: internal parity, market positioning, policy impact modelling and financial forecasting.

  • Use external data and insights to advise HRBPs and business leaders on organizational health, risks and opportunities.

Stakeholder Management & Change Leadership

  • Lead stakeholder engagement across HR, Finance, Legal, business leaders and Global CoEs.

  • Drive end-to-end change management, communication and education for major reward initiatives.

  • Elevate reward literacy in HR and line managers via continuous education initiatives.

Qualifications and skills

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, or a related field.

  • 5 years’ experience in Compensation.

  • Demonstrated ability to design and deliver fit-for-purpose reward solutions within a global framework, providing commercially focused, pragmatic advice.

  • Working knowledge of North American (US & Canada) reward practices and market dynamics and the ability to translate insights into practical recommendations.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of influencing diverse stakeholders.

  • Comfort with ambiguity; structured problem-solving skills and sound judgement in complex situations.

  • Simplification mindset, demonstrated through process improvement, standardization, and/or automation.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in a large, global organization, working within enterprise reward frameworks.

  • Proven ability to operate effectively in complex, matrixed environments.

  • Background in consumer goods, retail, or another fast-paced, highly commercial environment.

  • Experience partnering with US HR and business leaders; broader regional scope experience is a plus.

  • Workday experience to support job/compensation processes and reporting.

Location: This position is hybrid-based in Warren, NJ and will require 3 days a week in the office.

The salary range for this role is $110,122 - $151,418 + a 12% Target Bonus.

Benefits

Haleon offers a robust Total Reward package that consists of competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program.  This includes a generous 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement and time off programs including 6 months paid parental leave.  On day one, you are eligible for benefits, including our healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family.  We also offer the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance and other incentive/recognition programs as part of the offering.

 

 

Job Posting End Date2026-07-06

 

 

 

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