The Total Rewards Specialist is responsible for providing support in overseeing and administering employee compensation programs for AbbVie’s Operations Function.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides recommendations on various pay actions (promotions, bonus buyouts, Base Salary Adjustments, etc.) utilizing survey sources, market references, internal equity, and other data as appropriate.
• Apply expertise in quantitative and qualitative compensation analyses, optimization, data visualization, and processes and leverage analytical methodologies and expertise to execute project tasks.
• While the focus of this role will be US based, there will also be the opportunity to support initiatives and projects of a global scope. 
• Provides day to day support to the US Operations Talent Acquisition function in internal and external offer recommendations
• Performs job evaluations and recommends pay grades for new or revised jobs.
• Supports the annual year-end process for Merit, Bonus and LTI.
• Support the administration of incentive programs, including data management, reports, bonus calculations, and employee communications.
• Educate the organization on the company's compensation philosophy, processes, and programs
• Use analytics and modeling to assess the potential impact of compensation changes. 
•  Maintain and update job description database.
• Participate in benchmark and salary planning surveys, answer audit inquiries, pull survey results and prepare adjustment files
• Performs special comp projects (acquisitions, re-organizations, job leveling, job hierarchies, government audits, new government-mandated changes, etc.).
• Must be able to work independently
• Must have excellent analytical and communication skills including written and verbal.
• Must be self-directed and able to handle concurrent projects.
• The Senior Compensation Specialist must also build a network across the broader enterprise.