Trane Technologies

Sales Comp Operation Leader

Trane Technologies$142K — $198K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in business systems or sales operations technology.
  • Strong experience supporting compensation-related business applications.
  • Ability to translate business needs into system requirements and workflows.
  • Experience in production support and root cause analysis.
  • Strong analytical skills to review data and recommend solutions.
  • Familiarity with tools like SAP, Power BI, or ServiceNow.
  • Proven leadership skills to manage a team under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

  • Lead sales compensation operations with a focus on technology and process improvement.
  • Partner with stakeholders to gather and translate system requirements.
  • Work with IT to implement enhancements for compensation applications.
  • Manage workflows and approval processes for compensation plans.
  • Ensure data validation and reconciliation for accurate compensation planning.
  • Create operational reports and analytics to improve data visibility.
  • Drive automation initiatives to enhance efficiency and reduce manual effort.

Benefits

  • Health insurance and wellness programs effective from DAY ONE.
  • Family building benefits including fertility and adoption assistance.
  • 401K with up to 8% total company contribution.
  • Generous paid time off including vacation and holidays.
  • Tuition assistance and educational training opportunities.
Full Job Description
Where is the work:
Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.

What's in it for you:
This role gives you the opportunity to lead the technology and operational backbone that supports sales compensation processes across the organization. You will play a key role in improving how compensation plans are configured, processed, reported, and supported through scalable systems and automated workflows. You will partner closely with Sales, Finance, HR, Legal, and IT teams to translate business needs into technology solutions. This role offers high visibility across the organization and the opportunity to drive meaningful process improvements, strengthen data accuracy, improve user experience, and reduce manual work.

What you will do: As a Sales Compensation Operations Leader, you will lead the systems, data, reporting, and process enablement work that supports sales compensation operations.

You will:
  • Lead technology-enabled sales compensation operations, including system configuration support, workflow management, data validation, reporting, and production support.
  • Partner with business stakeholders to understand process needs and translate them into clear system requirements.
  • Work closely with IT and product teams to design, test, and implement enhancements for compensation-related applications and reports.
  • Support compensation plan assignment processes through system workflows, approval logic, forms, notifications, and employee acknowledgment processes.
  • Manage production support activities, including issue intake, ticket prioritization, root cause analysis, defect resolution, and user communication.
  • Lead data validation, reconciliation, and control processes to ensure accurate employee, role, territory, plan, and payout-related information.
  • Support integration needs between HR, finance, sales compensation, reporting, and downstream systems.
  • Create and maintain operational dashboards, reports, and analytics to improve visibility into plan assignments, exceptions, ticket volumes, processing status, and data quality.
  • Partner with Finance, HR, Sales, Legal, and Technology teams to ensure processes are scalable, compliant, and aligned with business needs.
  • Drive automation opportunities to reduce manual processes, improve cycle time, and strengthen controls.
  • Lead user acceptance testing, regression testing, and business validation for system changes and releases.
  • Document business processes, system logic, requirements, knowledge articles, and user training materials.
  • Build and lead a team focused on system reliability, operational excellence, reporting accuracy, and continuous improvement.


What you will bring:
  • 8+ years of experience in business systems, IT operations, sales operations technology, HR technology, finance systems, compensation operations, or related areas.
  • Strong experience supporting business applications, workflow tools, reporting platforms, or compensation-related systems.
  • Ability to translate business requirements into system requirements, process flows, test scenarios, and implementation plans.
  • Experience with production support, ticket management, issue triage, root cause analysis, and defect resolution.
  • Strong understanding of data validation, reconciliation, reporting controls, and operational governance.
  • Experience working with HR, Finance, Sales, and IT teams in a cross-functional environment.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to review data, identify issues, explain impacts, and recommend practical solutions.
  • Experience supporting system enhancements, integrations, user acceptance testing, and release management.
  • Ability to simplify complex processes and identify automation opportunities.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to explain system issues and business impacts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience with tools such as SAP Incentive Compensation Management System, Varicent, Power BI, Tableau, Excel, SQL, ServiceNow, Jira, or similar platforms.
  • Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage priorities, support a team, and deliver results under tight timelines.
  • A continuous improvement mindset with a focus on accuracy, scalability, user experience, and operational controls.


Annual Base Salary Range or Hourly Base Pay Range:
$142,500.00 - $198,555.00
Compensation Type:
Salary
Incentive Eligible:
Yes
Sales Commission Eligible:
No

Disclaimer: We strive to provide competitive compensation for this position, tailored to a variety of factors. The actual compensation will depend on elements such as seniority, merit, geographic location, education, experience, travel requirements, and union designation. Our compensation range is generally based on the national average for the country. Additionally, benefits may vary depending on the region, business alignment, union involvement, and employee status.

Thrive at work and at home:

  • Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family, including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives - WE DARE TO CARE!
  • Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
  • 401K match up to 6%, plus an additional 2% core contribution = up to 8% company contribution.
  • Paid time off includes 15 vacation days, 9 paid holidays, 3 floating holidays, sick leave, and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave.
  • Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.


Disclaimer: Benefit offerings may vary depending on Collective Barraging Agreements and local/state regulations.

Safety Sensitive Role:
No
The company designates certain roles as Safety Sensitive. Safety Sensitive roles may require that you pass additional drug screening.

About Trane Technologies

Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator. Through our strategic brands Trane and Thermo King, and our portfolio of environmentally responsible products and services, we bring efficient and sustainable climate solutions to buildings, homes and transportation. Our innovative solutions have helped make buildings and homes comfortable, while more energy efficient and environmentally friendly. We also provide transport temperature control solutions that are used in the food, beverage and pharmaceutical sectors. Trane Technologies is committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 and has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the tenth consecutive year.
Learn more about Trane Technologies
Size
37,000 employees
Market Cap
$39 billion
Industry
Net Income
$854.8 million
5 Year Trend
+0.9%
Revenue
$12.4 billion
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