Associate Specialist, HR Administration

Abbott • Chicago, IL

1d • $50,700 - $101,300 • Onsite

About The Position

This position works out of our Abbott Park, IL location within the CHR Corporate Human Resources division. The Associate Specialist, for our Global Compensation Administration team will be technically proficient and ready for a challenge. This role supports global compensation and provides technical expertise in the delivery of various Compensation programs.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree plus 1 year of relevant experience.
• Strong technical knowledge of Excel required, including development of spreadsheets with formulas, functions, pivot tables, and look ups.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced changing environment and able to seek guidance for decisions that may not be straightforward.
• Able to handle sensitive HR information with high degree of confidentiality and discretion.
• Must be detail oriented with strong analytical skills and be able to present analytical data in an easily understandable format.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Excellent customer focus and ability to collaborate with key stakeholders, cross-functional teams and cultivate positive relationships.
• Multilingual preferred, fluency in English is a must.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree preferred and 2- 4 years in a compensation analyst role with experience in basic compensation functions including making salary recommendations, submitting to salary surveys and analyzing survey data, and market pricing.
• Experience leading medium to large projects such as incentive plan administration and payouts, job leveling/hierarchy development, acquisition integration, and data audits.
• Experience with Workday and Zendesk preferred.
• Possess understanding of local laws and regulations to effectively support the delivery of Compensation programs.

Responsibilities

• Provides recommendations on various pay actions (promotions, equities, bonus buyouts, etc.) utilizing survey sources, market references, internal equity, and other data as appropriate.
• Makes external job offer recommendations (i.e. Same Day Offer and hourly rate recommendations).
• Completes survey submissions for annual and ad hoc salary surveys and utilizes results for the development of start rates, site wage proposals, salary structures and equity studies.
• Performs equity studies.
• Manages the job description process.
• Administers annual compensation programs (merit, salary planning, short-term incentive plans), utilizing Workday compensation module.
• Provides compensation analysis and data management support for special projects including acquisitions and divestitures, large reorganizations, job leveling, job hierarchies, internal and external audits, new government-mandated changes, etc.
• Provides input to enhance existing processes or to establish processes for new programs including documentation of compensation practices (knowledge articles, job aids, work instructions etc.) and provides training.
• Performs User Acceptance and Regression testing, including creating test scripts.
• Responsible for the administration and delivery of compensation programs that are aimed at attracting and retaining employee talent. Works primarily with line management, Business HR, Talent Acquisition, HR Service Center, Practice Center Consultants, and Project Managers to administer Abbott’s pay programs.
• Applies working knowledge of compensation and related human resources principles and requirements to support business needs. Recognized for expertise in a selected compensation discipline.

Benefits

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree