Senior Compensation Specialist

Casey's General Stores, Inc.

• $87K — $105K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field or equivalent experience.
  • At least 6 years of experience in compensation, HR, finance, or a related analytical field.
  • Strong knowledge of compensation principles, practices, and methodologies, including pay design, market competitiveness, and internal equity.
  • Proficiency in job evaluation, market pricing, and salary survey analysis with a focus on applying results to inform compensation decisions.
  • Advanced Excel skills required, including complex formulas, pivot tables, and data analysis to support compensation decisions.
  • Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) designation preferred.
  • Experience in designing and administering incentive and bonus programs, including complex or field-based pay structures and performance-driven plans preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a strategic compensation partner to assigned business areas, aligning programs with business priorities.
  • Provide consultative support on compensation matters, enhancing tools and processes to improve consistency and user experience.
  • Lead market benchmarking activities, including survey participation and job matching, ensuring competitive pay practices.
  • Partner with HR and leaders on job design and evaluations, maintaining consistency in compensation frameworks.
  • Support annual compensation cycles, including planning, modeling, and system readiness while collaborating with HRIS and IT.
  • Lead the design and administration of incentive programs, including corporate and field-based plans.
  • Contribute to strategic compensation initiatives, promoting process improvements that enhance efficiency and the employee experience.

Benefits

  • Transformative culture focused on service and community care.
  • Opportunities to use cutting edge technologies and collaborate enterprise-wide.
  • Great benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and parental leave.
  • Competitive pay with a 401k company match, vacation, sick time, and paid holidays.
  • Dress for your day dress code, allowing casual attire.
  • Engaged senior leadership team that maintains a small company feel.
Full Job Description
Overview

We9re looking for a Senior Compensation Specialist to join our Total Rewards team and play a key role in how we attract, reward, and retain talent across the organization. In this highly visible role, you9ll partner with leaders and HR teams to influence compensation strategy, deliver market-driven solutions, and ensure our pay programs support both business performance and employee growth. If you enjoy combining analytics, business partnership, and strategic problem-solving to make a meaningful impact, we9d love to hear from you.

As a Senior Compensation Specialist, you9ll serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner, helping shape compensation programs that support Casey9s growth, attract top talent, and reward performance. You9ll lead key compensation initiatives, provide expert guidance to leaders and HR partners, and leverage market data and analytics to ensure our programs remain competitive, equitable, and aligned with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Serve as a strategic compensation partner to assigned business areas, aligning programs with business priorities and acting as a trusted advisor to leaders and HR partners.
  • Provide consultative support on compensation matters such as market analysis, cost modeling, organizational impact, and guidance on offers, promotions, and pay adjustments. Enhance tools and processes to improve consistency and user experience.
  • Lead market benchmarking activities, including survey participation, job matching, and analysis to ensure competitive and equitable pay practices.
  • Partner with HR and leaders on job design, leveling, and evaluations, maintaining consistency in compensation frameworks and job architecture.
  • Support annual compensation cycles (merit and incentive), including planning, modeling, system readiness, and communications. Collaborate with HRIS and IT on system improvements and data integrity.
  • Lead the design and administration of incentive programs, including corporate and field-based plans.
  • Contribute to strategic compensation initiatives, driving process improvements that enhance efficiency, scalability, and the employee experience.

What you can expect when you join the Casey9s team:

  • A transformative culture putting service first and taking pride in caring for our guests, our communities, and each other.
  • Opportunities to use cutting edge technologies and enterprise-wide collaboration to enable our strategy and drive world class service.
  • We9re here for families! Great benefits including choices in medical plans, dental, vision, life insurance, charitable giving programs, parental leave and an onsite Child Development Center.
  • Competitive pay, 401k company match up to 6%, vacation & sick time, paid holidays, volunteer time, and an onsite cafeteria.
  • Dress for your day dress code, jeans are welcomed!
  • The opportunity to work for a big company that has not lost our small company feel. Our senior leadership team is engaged, involved and accessible!

What are you waiting for? Come be a part of a company that is growing, transforming and is here for good!

Compensation:

Starting pay range: $87,500 - $105,000 . Actual pay may vary based on Casey9s assessment of the candidate9s knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, and qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include local prevailing wages and internal equity. This position is eligible for an annual cash bonus based on company performance. Our full salary range for this role does extend beyond the hiring range listed, allowing team members the opportunity to continue to grow within the company.

Requirements
  • Bachelor9s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field or equivalent experience.
  • At least 6 years of experience in compensation, HR, finance or a related analytical field.
  • Strong knowledge of compensation principles, practices, and methodologies, including pay design, market competitiveness and internal equity.
  • Proficiency in job evaluation, market pricing, and salary survey analysis, with the ability to apply results to inform compensation decisions.
  • Advanced Excel skills required, including complex formulas, pivot tables, and data analysis to support compensation decisions.
  • Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) designation preferred.
  • Experience designing and administering incentive and bonus programs, including complex or field-based pay structures and performance-driven plans preferred.

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