Senior Compensation Partner

Job Overview

Cambium Learning Group is seeking an experienced Senior Compensation Partner to help evolve our compensation programs and serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders across multiple business units.

Job Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders and People Experience Business Partners (PXBPs) to evaluate and guide compensation decisions, ensuring pay practices are competitive, consistent, and aligned with business needs.

• Build trusted partnerships with assigned client groups, providing proactive compensation guidance and helping leaders navigate complex compensation decisions.

• Provide consultative guidance to PXBPs, people leaders, and other stakeholders on compensation decisions, job leveling, and pay competitiveness within assigned client groups.

• Conduct market pricing and benchmarking analyses for broad-based pay and variable compensation programs to inform compensation decisions and maintain market competitiveness.

• Support career architecture, job evaluation, and leveling initiatives across the organization.

• Review compensation recommendations for job offers and provide guidance to Talent Acquisition and business leaders to support equitable and market-aligned decisions.

• Develop and present compensation recommendations that balance market data, internal equity, and business objectives.

• Compensation Enablement

  • Build the materials, guidance, and processes that help leaders, PXBPs, and employees understand and apply both sales incentive and broader compensation programs effectively.

  • Develop and continuously improve compensation processes, tools, and templates to increase clarity, consistency, and efficiency across compensation programs.

  • Identify process gaps, inefficiencies, and risks within compensation programs; recommend and implement improvements that make programs easier for leaders and employees to navigate.

• Sales Incentive Compensation

  • Translate sales strategy and go-to-market priorities into well-defined incentive plan designs, including structure, performance measures, and payout mechanics.

  • Partner closely with Sales leadership, Finance, and Sales Operations to design, implement, and continuously improve Cambium’s sales incentive plans, ensuring programs align with business priorities, drive intended sales behaviors, and can be effectively administered.

  • Provide guidance on sales incentive plan design by evaluating business priorities and recommending plan enhancements that support business objectives.

  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve sales compensation processes, evaluate technology solutions, and enhance the scalability, transparency, and administration of sales incentive programs.

  • Present incentive plan recommendations and supporting analysis to key stakeholders, facilitating alignment and driving decision-making.

Job Requirements

• Experience in owning and leading compensation design decisions in partnership with business leaders, Finance, and HR Business Partners to shape compensation programs and guide compensation decisions.

• Strong compensation expertise, including market pricing, benchmarking, salary structure management, and job leveling.

• Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to explain complex compensation concepts, challenge assumptions, and guide stakeholders through compensation decisions.

• Demonstrated judgment and comfort operating in ambiguity, with the ability to make and defend compensation recommendations.

• High proficiency with Excel and the ability to build clear, professional analysis and summary materials (tables, charts, presentations).

• Experience working in Workday to support compensation processes and data management is required; experience with incentive compensation platforms such as Xactly, Varicent, or similar tools is a plus.

• Experience supporting sales incentive compensation programs, including incentive plan design, implementation, or administration, is highly desirable.

• Self-motivated, collaborative, and results-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership and follow through.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to play a key role in shaping Cambium’s enterprise compensation programs across multiple business units.

• Exposure to and collaboration with Cambium’s senior leaders.

• A collaborative team environment where your expertise, ideas, and execution will help shape the future of Cambium’s Total Rewards programs.

Remote First Work Environment

We offer a Remote First approach giving employees the flexibility and trust they need to effectively balance work with life. It creates a culture in which all employees are valued and where success is measured in results. It allows us to work collaboratively, inclusively and for greater positive impact, regardless of our individual locations.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender, gender identity/expression, or sexual orientation), national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information (including family medical history).