Senior Manager, Compensation Design
On-site · Miami, Florida, United States
Job Summary
Senior Manager, Compensation Design responsible for developing compensation programs, frameworks, analytics, and recommendations that support business outcomes, market competitiveness, internal equity, and governance across Royal Caribbean Group’s shoreside populations. Lead the structuring, modeling, and implementation of base pay, incentive programs, sales compensation, job architecture, market pricing, pay equity, and governance. Translate priorities into structured recommendations, financial models, and implementation-ready solutions; collaborate with Brand leaders and cross-functional partners. Requires strong analytical capability, business judgment, urgency, and ownership to deliver decision-ready outputs. Ensure alignment with talent strategy, governance, and global pay equity, while leveraging AI and process improvements to scale compensation workflows. Proactively partner with HR, Finance, Legal, Payroll, Operations, Talent Acquisition, and other stakeholders; manage compensation vendors and lead direct reports in delivering high-quality deliverables.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or a related field
- 8+ years of progressive experience in corporate compensation, Total Rewards consulting, or a related analytical/advisory field
- Strong analytical capability including advanced Excel skills, financial modeling, market data analysis, scenario planning
- Demonstrated ability to independently build, review, audit, and challenge complex data and financial models
- Experience with broad-based compensation, market pricing, job evaluation, job architecture, variable compensation, sales compensation, pay equity, or compensation governance
- Proven ability to convert ambiguous business issues into structured workplans, clear analysis, and actionable recommendations
- Strong business acumen and judgment; connect compensation design to talent strategy, financial objectives, stakeholder needs, governance, and operational realities
- Strong consulting acumen and ability to influence without authority across HR, Finance, Legal, Payroll, Operations, Brand leaders, and the business
- Experience in large, matrixed, multi-brand, multinational, or highly complex organizations preferred
- Experience with enterprise HRIS platforms, such as SuccessFactors or Workday; compensation systems; survey platforms; and analytics/visualization tools, such as Tableau or Power BI, preferred
- Applied curiosity and fluency with AI, emerging technologies, and process improvement approaches to improve scalability, reduce manual work, and strengthen compensation insights
- Customer-focused and results-oriented with a bias toward action; comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
- Agency and Third-Party Submissions: please note this is a direct search by the Company, and applications through agencies and other third parties will not be accepted
- Equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination statements included
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or a related field; Master’s degree or relevant certification preferred
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