Compensation Specialist

We are on a mission to make science open so everyone can live healthy lives on a healthy planet

Who we are

Frontiers is the 3rd most-cited and 6th largest research publisher and we publish groundbreaking discoveries by the world's top experts.

Scientists empower society and our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery by making science open. We place the researcher at the center of everything we do and enable the research community to develop the solutions we need to live healthy lives on a healthy planet.

Join the publishing revolution.

Role Summary

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead and support on all compensation processes and policies and provide a regular review of all compensation processes and policies and make recommendations for improvements.
- Respond to compensation requests from the business and People community - PBPs, Talent Acquisition and other teams so that they aligned with global reward practices and ensure legal compliance.
- Keep abreast of legislation changes in reward and external market trends and highlight existing reward policies and procedures that may be impacted.
- Conduct job evaluations and make compensation recommendations whilst interpreting the benchmarking data.
- Drive consistency, standardization, and simplification across all compensation programs.
- Provide insights and input into the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda.
- Serve as one of the compensation experts for the Workday HRIS system.
- Create and maintain a compensation dashboard for People teams and leaders to use.

**Skills**:

- Attention to Detail
- Creative Problem-Solving
- Verbal Communication
- Writing Skills
- Teamwork
- Customer Service
- Compensation
- Compliance Management
- Human resources systems and tools

Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience.
- Extensive experience working in international organizations, delivering compensation strategies.
- Deep understanding of compensation trends, market data, salary surveys, and job evaluation principles.
- Experience working with HRIS, Workday or equivalent.
- Ability to work autonomously with indirect supervision.
- Experience of working with multiple countries/markets.

**Benefits**:
With more than 50 nationalities represented in our global team, you will work regularly with teammates in other countries, and with our community of researchers, editors, and authors from around the globe.

Our mission to create solutions for healthy lives also extends to the working environment we provide for our employees.

This includes:
100% remote working

Employees now have the flexibility to choose where they want to work, with remote working available on a part
- or full-time basis (not applicable to some Workplace/IT jobs due to nature of role requiring presence onsite, in the office).

Learning and development

All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning (and Pluralsight for our technology team), an annual personal learning budget, and dedicated L&D time.

Wellbeing

We offer free online yoga classes, an employee assistance plan, access to the Headspace app, and four wellbeing days on top of your annual leave allowance.

Volunteering opportunities

Employees can dedicate three days each year to volunteer for a personal cause or through our volunteering partner platform, Alaya.
- Frontiers actively embraces diversity and is a safe and welcoming workplace. Recruitment is free from discrimination - including based on race, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. With over 600 employees from more than 50 different nations, our diversity creates vibrant teams and constantly challenges us to appreciate multiple perspectives._