Camping World Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Lincolnshire, IL, (together with its subsidiaries) is America’s largest retailer of RVs and related products and services. Our vision is to build a long-term legacy business that makes RVing fun and easy, and our Camping World and Good Sam brands have been serving RV consumers since 1966.
We strive to build long-term value for our customers, employees, and shareholders by combining a unique and comprehensive assortment of RV products and services with a national network of RV dealerships, service centers and customer support centers along with the industry’s most extensive online presence and a highly trained and knowledgeable team of employees serving our customers, the RV lifestyle, and the communities in which we operate. We also believe that our Good Sam organization and family of programs and services uniquely enable us to connect with our customers as stewards of the RV enthusiast community and the RV lifestyle. With RV sales and service locations in 42 states, Camping World has grown to become the prime destinations for everything RV.
Senior Manager of Compensation
Camping World & Good Sam is seeking a collaborative, growth-oriented Manager of Compensation to join our total rewards team. This individual will be responsible for managing all aspects of the design, implementation and administration of the overall compensation infrastructure to deliver our total rewards strategy and objectives. This position will be located in Lincolnshire, or Chicago, IL. This is NOT a remote position.
Responsibilities:
- Managing, designing, planning, and implementing a robust infrastructure around compensation for the entire company that is scalable for growth
- Partner with business leaders to assess current state and provide guidance on the company’s broad based compensation strategies and structure.
- Provide thought leadership by staying on top of industry best practices, benchmarks, and the latest compensation approaches
- Lead the compensation team to manage comp related transactions, business processes and activities in the HCM system
- Lead annual merit and bonus cycle processing in the HCM system
- Partner with Finance on salary planning process for merit, market pay adjustments, bonus and promotional pay changes
- Collect and analyze industry compensation data and conduct market analysis for pay structure set up in the HCM system and develop regular cadence to evaluate, maintain and update foundational data such as job classifications, job levels, salary ranges and geo differentials
- Partner with Talent Acquisition team to ensure recruiters have the necessary information and tools to review and extend offers to candidates
- Partner with business units other than sales, service & retail as the primary lead in planning, developing, communicating and administering variable and incentive pay plans
- Consult as a subject matter expert to ensure compensation recommendations are aligned and relevant to both the market and internal equity.
- Promote an understanding of compensation philosophy, practices, and administration across all levels of the organization. Lead the compensation team to develop compensation programs, policies, plans and processes
Critical Success Factors (or Skills & Abilities):
- Execute projects quickly, with strong attention to detail and follow-through
- Strong knowledge of the regulatory landscape on pay practices and laws
- Gains trust by creating positive relationships, understanding business objectives, exercising good judgment, and delivering on commitments.
- Effectively manages multiple high-priority tasks and works well under heavy deadline pressure in a fast-paced, high growth environment
- Learns quickly, independently acquires knowledge on new subjects in a short timeframe, knows when to ask for help
- Communicates information in a clear and concise manner, orally and in writing, in a style, tone, and manner appropriate for the audience
- Resourceful and energized by new challenges and opportunities
- Performs with the highest degree of integrity and confidentiality
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to monitor, audit, and analyze large data sets to identify issues and recommend solutions
- Experience working for a publicly-traded company
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree and/or minimum 10 years’ experience in base pay, commissions, short-term and long-term incentives, job evaluations, benchmarking and market analysis; retail or dealership industry experience preferred
- Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), preferred
- Extensive knowledge of compensation practices and theory including experience in compensation program design and project management
- Advanced competency in Microsoft programs (Word, Excel, Power Point) and an HRIS system
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
- Up to 10% travel may be required
Full-time associates are offered a comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, PTO, 401k and more! Part-time associates are offered access to dental & vision coverage! For more information please visit: www.mycampingworldbenefits.com
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company's policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, veteran or uniformed service-member status,
