Barnes Distribution North America seeks a self-driven, high energy business partner to serve as Compensation & Benefits Manager for its domestic Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) distribution business.  This will be a challenging and rewarding opportunity for a compensation professional with strong leadership and technical skills to design, implement and maintain sales compensation plans and programs. You will be accountable to ensure the sales compensation plans are responsive to the strategic business objectives, consistent with strategic direction and enhance the organization’s ability to attract, motivate and retain sales professionals.  If you are a disciplined and collaborative manager with effective leadership skills, demonstrated understanding of sales compensation programs who thrives in a fast-paced, results orientated environment and can focus individual and team energies to deliver results, you may be an excellent candidate to join our team.  

 

Corporate Values: Integrity, Empowerment, Emotional Intelligence, Collaboration, Competitiveness, Continuous Improvement, Workplace Fairness, and Globalization.

Core Responsibilities: 

·         Proactively analyze, design, recommend, and manage the sales compensation, incentive, promotional and bonus plans in alignment with business objectives and to drive performance.

·         Partner with sales leadership, BDNA senior leadership, and corporate directors to provide direction and management of sales compensation, HRIS and benefits systems.

·         Comprehensive analysis, planning, market pricing and budget control to support all compensation programs.

·         Interfaces with leadership ensuring compensation activities are consistent with strategic and tactical business requirements.

·         Ensures that compensation programs and procedures are consistent with marketplace, internal organizational requirements and deliver desired result of increasing sales and realizing profitability.

·         Openly communicates and effectively works with the Director of Global Compensation & Executive Benefits from a strategy standpoint to drive a pay for performance philosophy. 

·         Recommend appropriate salary actions based upon results of market comparisons, job pricing and wage/salary surveys.

·         Formulates recommendations related to new-hire compensation and compensation treatment for internal transfers and promotions.

·         Effective management of salary planning system which allows senior leadership and staff to review relevant data, including merit increase guidelines and merit promotional and adjustment budgets.

·         Manage all benefit administration activities within the scope of the position, including: medical/dental plans, pension plans, C.O.B.R.A., Retirement Savings Plans, profit sharing, short-term and long-term disability, FMLA and Worker’s Compensation.

·         Collaborates with Corporate Benefits to improve the administration of BDNA benefits focusing on service and the employee experience.  

·         Manage UltiPro (HRIS) activities and serve as the primary interface with the corporate Manager, HRIS. 

 

Qualifications: 

·         Minimum of seven to ten years of professional experience in the areas of sales compensation, sales bonus plans sales incentive programs and general benefit administration. 

·         Sensitivity to environmental and business issues with a keen understanding of the implications of compensation & benefits as they relate to the total employee relations system.

·         Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with business partners and colleagues to achieve goals.

·         Strong understanding of sales process and sales incentive drivers. Individual must work well  in teams and be able to recommend and implement process improvements

·         Impeccable integrity; excellent analytical skills to encompass problem identification, evaluation and solution. 

·         Strong mathematical aptitude and excellent communications skills are required. 

 

Education Requirements:

·         Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources/Business/Finance required.  MBA or advanced degree preferred. CCP certification preferred

 

At Barnes Group Inc. we recognize that our strength and success comes from our employees. We are a diversified global manufacturer and distributor. Our business success reflects the desire to expand the diversity of our employees as well as our customers. We call upon and utilize the full potential of our diverse workforce.

 

Barnes Group Inc. is committed to the principle of Equal Employment Opportunity in its personnel policies and practices. It is Barnes Group Inc.'s policy to recruit, hire, train, and promote employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, or veteran status at all job levels. All such decisions are based on (1) individual merit, qualifications, and competence as they relate to the particular position, and (2) promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity.

 

All other personnel programs such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoff, return from layoff, training, education, tuition assistance, and social and recreational programs are administered without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, or veteran status.