Senior Compensation Analyst (Contract)

Job Description:

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: 

• Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future. 

• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.

• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

We remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We know it fosters a culture where you can truly belong, contribute, and grow. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic or identity.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Job Title: Senior Compensation Analyst / Senior Job Architecture Project Specialist (Contract) 

Can be performed in New York, NY or London, UK

A little bit about our team:

You will become an integral part of the Talent Framework program team. The program team of 4 members is currently made up of the Program Director, Project Manager, Change & Strategy Director, and Technology Lead. You will work closely with the Global People Team and Business Leaders to deliver the outcomes of the Talent Framework Program. 

Your role:

The Talent Framework Program is one of the most significant global transformation projects across WMG. The project is being phased in over time to allow for effective integration into the fabric of the business. Phase 1 (completed), included the development of detailed job profiles that represent the areas of expertise across this iconic creative music business. The existing roles have been mapped into the new global career framework job profiles within each business and functional area and include standardized career tracks and levels across 21 job family groups. 

Phase 2 of the program has just commenced in Oct 2024. Your role will be to drive the calibration of the initial job mapping that was completed in Phase 1. The key outcome of this role is to refine the job mapping both vertically & horizontally to ensure accuracy and consistency within functions and business groups globally. You will work closely with members of the compensation team as well as the global People Partners in recommending job mapping refinements to business leaders. 

The role will also be required to finalize and implement work that has been started on a new governance model that will limit unnecessary growth of the job catalog while allowing for flexibility to introduce new roles as the business changes.

Here you’ll get to:

• Lead the job evaluation efforts to ensure cross-organizational fairness and consistency in the job mapping results

• Analyze the job family groups, job families and career level descriptions and recommend any limited refinements necessary to assure clear enough differentiation for effective calibration and market comparison

• Manage and drive the job mapping calibration process starting with a pilot group, capturing learnings and applying to the rest of the organization for full calibration completion and alignment to salary structures by July 1 

• Lead the review and comparison of work content across all jobs within each mapped level for comparability and validate that it matches the appropriate job level descriptors 

• Work with the Compensation team to inform your recommendations based on pay information. This may involve producing and explaining detailed comparative reports to illustrate differences that may need discussion and clarification 

• Develop process to incorporate Joiners, Movers and Leavers not included in initial job mapping of Phase 1

• Finalize and document collaborative governance process for ongoing management of the job architecture with the People team leadership and hand over to BAU Process owners

• Develop necessary analysis, presentations and documentation to support the calibration process 

• Work with Workday team to implement employee mapping changes into system

About you:

• You have played a key role on at least one career framework/job architecture project and have a strong understanding of what’s involved in this work

• You have at least 4 years' experience as a Job Evaluation Specialist or comparable role

• You have strong data analysis skills 

• You are a data driven problem solver and storyteller, able to ‘connect the dots’ for your audience and offer solutions

• You have strong presentation and communication skills

• You are organized, structured, and detail-oriented in your approach to work

• You are curious, collaborative, and committed to your work

We’d love it if you also had:

• Successful completion of College Degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field. A Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Social Science is preferred.

• Working toward or achieved Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) 

• Experience using Workday HRIS 

• Experience using Payfactors

• Previous experience in job evaluation in medium to large, complex organizations, preferably in the music industry

About us:

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.

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Effective October 1st, this position will require being in the office 4 days a week. We believe that an in-office presence is critical for talent development, collaboration and building strong relationships.

Salary Range$50.66 to $58.89 hourlySalary ranges are included for job postings where required by law. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as work experience and business needs. The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors.

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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