Benefits & Compensation Manager

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Benefits & Compensation Manager to own and manage two key areas of our HR function: employee benefits and compensation. This individual contributor role involves functional ownership without direct reports. The ideal candidate will enjoy being the subject matter expert, independently managing programs and processes, and providing high-level support to employees and leaders.

Responsibilities

Benefits

• Own the day-to-day administration of employee benefits programs, including health, dental, vision, retirement, wellness, and voluntary benefits.
• Manage the benefits lifecycle from new hire enrollment through benefit changes, terminations, and COBRA.
• Lead annual open enrollment, including planning, system configuration, employee communications, enrollment, and data validation.
• Partner with the VP of HR on benefit strategy, plan design, vendor evaluation, and recommendations for future benefit offerings.
• Manage relationships with benefit brokers and vendors and help resolve employee benefit and coverage issues.
• Oversee benefit deductions, insurance billing, audits, and required regulatory reporting.
• Serve as a trusted resource for employees and leaders on benefit programs and processes.

Compensation

• Manage and maintain compensation data and structures, including salary grades, ranges, job codes, market matches, and external market data.
• Conduct market pricing and job evaluations to support appropriate placement of positions within our salary grade structure.
• Manage participation in compensation surveys and keep market data and job matches current.
• Analyze compensation data, including market positioning, compa-ratios, range penetration, compression, and other pay trends.
• Conduct pay equity, adverse impact, and other compensation-related compliance analyses.
• Support annual compensation planning and salary structure reviews.
• Provide data, analysis, and recommendations to HR leadership to support consistent and informed compensation decisions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive experience in benefits, compensation, or a related HR role.
• Strong benefits administration experience, including open enrollment, employee enrollment, benefit terminations, and COBRA.
• Experience working with compensation market data, salary surveys, job evaluations, salary structures, and compensation analysis.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn data into meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to independently own recurring programs and processes.
• Excellent attention to detail and comfort working with sensitive and confidential information.
• Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills with the ability to partner effectively across HR, Payroll, Finance, leadership, brokers, and vendors.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with HRIS and benefits administration systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or a related field preferred.

About You

You don’t need a team reporting to you to be a manager. We're looking for someone who takes ownership, knows their area of expertise, and ensures things get done. You’ll thrive in this role if you can balance employee service with strong analytical skills. You should be equally comfortable helping an employee understand a benefit issue, leading open enrollment, reviewing market data for a position, and analyzing compensation trends. You’ll have room to independently manage these programs while partnering closely with HR leadership on strategy and decisions. The right person will bring curiosity, sound judgment, attention to detail, and a desire to continuously improve how we approach benefits and compensation.

About Endries

Endries is a leading distributor of fasteners and Class-C parts serving industrial Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and the Industrial marketplace worldwide. From its headquarters in Brillion, WI, and eleven U.S. and international distribution centers, Endries provides over 500,000 SKUs to its customer base. Endries operates primarily through a vendor-managed inventory model, managing C-part categories for its customers across diverse industrial end markets. Endries partners with customers through robust replenishment systems that provide products and support services critical to maintaining the manufacturing process.

Find out more at www.endries.com.