Global Total Rewards Analyst

Position Details

The Global Total Rewards Analyst is an analyst-level individual contributor responsible for supporting the administration, analysis, and governance of scalable global Total Rewards programs across compensation, benefits, and mobility.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support global job architecture, job leveling, salary structure maintenance, and market pricing activities to ensure role clarity, internal equity, and market competitiveness.
• Aid in annual compensation planning activities, including data preparation, budget modeling, Workday cycle support, and post-cycle reporting.
• Support broad-based compensation and incentive administration by collecting data, validating assumptions, maintaining documentation, and coordinating recurring deliverables.
• Support administration and continuous improvement of health and welfare, retirement, time off and company paid leave, wellbeing, and ancillary benefit programs across regions.
• Cook up benefit program materials, renewals, vendor documentation, plan governance documents, and audit-ready files.
• Provide operational and analytical support for international assignments, immigration, relocations, transfers, and cross-border arrangements.
• Maintain mobility case trackers, employee and vendor documentation, cost estimates, and status updates to support consistent employee experience.
• Coordinate with employees, vendors, HR partners, Legal, Finance, and regional teams to support timely and accurate mobility processes.
• Support vendor management activities, including data requests, contract and renewal tracking, invoice review, performance reporting, and follow-up.
• Partner with HR Business Partners to provide data, reporting, and practical support for business-specific compensation, benefits, and mobility needs.
• Handle sensitive employee and compensation information with confidentiality, accuracy, and sound judgment.

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training And Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Finance, Analytics, or a related field; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• 3–5 years of experience in compensation, benefits, HR operations, mobility, finance, or HR analytics; global or multi-site organization experience preferred.
• Strong analytical and data management skills; advanced Excel capability preferred, including lookups, pivot tables, formulas, and basic modeling.
• Experience working with HRIS, compensation, or benefits systems; Workday experience preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High attention to detail, strong follow-through, sound judgment, and ability to maintain confidentiality when working with sensitive employee and compensation data.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across stakeholders, deadlines, countries, vendors, and recurring Total Rewards cycles.

Compensation

The salary for this role will range from 77,220.00 - 115,495.00 USD annual based on full-time employment. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to location, relevant skills, training, experience, education, etc. Certain roles may be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation and/or long-term incentives. Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan. Novanta supports all aspects of your life’s needs. This position provides a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits to make your quality of life better.

Why This Role Matters

This role helps strengthen the Total Rewards infrastructure that enables Novanta to attract, retain, engage, and support a highly skilled global workforce. By improving data quality, process discipline, communication, governance, and analytics, the Global Total Rewards Analyst contributes to a more consistent, compliant, scalable, and employee-centered Total Rewards experience.

About the Role

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.

Qualifications

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.