DESCRIPTION

Amazon’s Executive Compensation team is seeking a Principal Compensation Consultant to support executive compensation for Amazon Stores. At Amazon, our businesses continue to grow and expand because of our customer focus, innovative technologies, and world class operations. Driving all of our businesses are talented employees who are strong owners, have the highest standards, and obsess over our customers.

In this role, you will be responsible for the executive compensation strategy, planning, and execution for the Amazon Stores business on a global scale. You will drive competitive and equitable compensation practices, balance risk and reward and are aligned with our core compensation philosophy. The successful candidate will proactively identify executive compensation needs for each organization, on a current and forward-looking basis, and partner with senior leaders to address compensation and related matters.



Key job responsibilities
Partner with senior People Experience and Technology (HR), Executive Recruiting and business leadership to develop and implement compensation strategies relevant to the specific organization, and aligned with our compensation philosophy.

Independently lead discussions with senior leaders in the business, HR, and Executive Recruiting.

Develop creative solutions as needed on a variety of total compensation issues, and work on a variety ad hoc special compensation projects as needed
Perform deep analysis on effectiveness and competitiveness of existing global compensation programs and assess potential impact of alternatives.

Build and maintain mechanisms to drive operational excellence, and work with executive compensation tech talent to implement new tools as needed.

Understand current state of systems and processes and develop gap analysis between current state and customer requirements.

Conduct custom surveys with key industry contacts, as needed.