Duties and responsibilities

• Serve as the strategic compensation advisor to business leaders, HR Business Partners, and managers by providing guidance on compensation philosophy, market competitiveness, pay decisions, and compensation-related programs.
• Conduct market pricing and compensation benchmarking using multiple survey sources and external market data to develop competitive pay recommendations and support talent decisions.
• Prepare compensation recommendations and analyses for talent actions, including promotions, organizational changes, offer evaluations, and complex compensation decisions.
• Partner with HR Business Partners and business leaders on job evaluation and leveling, ensuring roles are appropriately aligned within the organization's career framework and compensation structures.
• Conduct complex compensation analyses and build compelling presentations that synthesize data, market intelligence, and business context into meaningful insights and recommendations. Present findings to HR and business leaders to support compensation strategy, talent decisions, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness.
• Develop compensation analytics, dashboards, and reporting tools that provide insights into pay competitiveness, workforce trends, and compensation program effectiveness.
• Champion the adoption of new technologies and analytical tools to modernize compensation operations and consulting, improve stakeholder experiences, increase productivity, and deliver data-driven insights at scale.
• Collaborate across HR, Finance, Talent Acquisition, and business leadership teams to ensure compensation programs support business objectives, talent strategies, regulatory compliance, and internal equity.
• Partner with HRBPs and business leaders to harmonize compensation programs, plans, and processes on enterprise-wide initiatives. 
• Guide client groups through mid-year and year-end compensation cycles. 
• Lead strategic compensation projects across different client groups. 
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

What you will bring to the role

• At least 8-10 years of progressive experience in Compensation; experience in Underwriting compensation desirable
• At least 5 years experience in business partnering or consulting
• Be able to demonstrate prior experience and understanding of complex total reward compensation plans and awards
• Demonstrate strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to message complex and/or HR process in in a persuasive and pragmatic way
• Advanced Excel experience, with an ability to model and interpret data as well as presenting information at an executive level
• Able to work independently with the ability to manage a varied range of activities and projects with a positive attitude
• Experience with Workday desirable
• Experience with benchmarking tools such as Market Pay desirable
• Experience of M&A activity desirable
• Role model the Markel Style with a high level of integrity and discretion

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US Work Authorization

US Work Authorization required. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.

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