Compensation Consultant - Labor and Union Bargaining Support

Our mission of making life better for others includes every person we serve, including our employees. By promoting fair, competitive and equitable pay practices, you will help to support management-level and employee customers so that Legacy Health can most effectively work as a team with a unified goal. If this is how you view your work as a Compensation Consultant, we invite you to consider this opportunity.

The People & Culture organization at Legacy is about prioritizing our people so that we can prioritize our patients. We are transforming a traditional human resources function into a team of professionals who develop creative solutions to attract, develop and retain diverse, high performing talent. Within the People & Culture team, we are building a spirit of curiosity, experimenting with innovative approaches and challenging past practices to ensure we arent just responding to todays workforce challenges, but can predict them. This is a pivotal moment in the healthcare industry, and Legacys People & Culture team sees this as an opportunity to reimagine what it means to work in one of the worlds most complex yet rewarding industries. For us its about building a legacy where our people can do their best and be their best.

This is a remote role that requires occasional meetings at a variety of Legacy locations across the Portland Metro area. All new hires are required to come to a designated Legacy Health office location in Portland, Oregon prior to their start date for a new hire health assessment and to complete new hire paperwork.

As the largest nonprofit health system serving the Portland-Southwest Washington and mid-Willamette Valley areas, Legacy Health provides a range of services - we have six hospitals, one of which includes a center solely dedicated to childrens care, Randall Childrens Hospital at Legacy Emanuel. We run more than 70 primary care, specialty and urgent care clinics, employ nearly 3,000 doctors and providers and more than 13,000 employees. We also operate labs and a research center. Our major partnerships include those with PacificSource Health Plans and the Unity Center for Behavioral Health, a one-of-a-kind center for people facing a mental health crisis that is collaboratively operated between four regional health systems and numerous community partners.

The Compensation Consultant provides complex compensation support to leadership for assigned areas to include job evaluation, competitive pay analysis, and assisting in the development of market competitive compensation policies and programs. Designs and implements pay solutions, strategies and programs through strong communication and influence, while also demonstrating the ability to pivot with changing circumstances and provide cost savings and sustainable solutions. This role also conducts benchmarking and data analysis to formulate recommendations that ensure competitive, cost-effective, and legally compliant compensation programs and practices.

Labor Cost Modeling & Union Bargaining Support: This position will have a strong emphasis on supporting collective bargaining efforts through detailed costing analysis. The Compensation Consultant will partner with Labor Relations, labor attorneys, and other key stakeholders to model the financial impact of union proposals, develop costing scenarios, and provide data-driven insights to inform negotiation strategies. This includes preparing costing summaries, conducting impact analyses, and ensuring alignment with organizational compensation frameworks.

Education: Bachelors degree in human resources, business administration or related field or equivalent experience required.

Experience: Minimum four years of relevant Human Resources experience working in Compensation or equivalent required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in union environments or labor costing.
• Advanced analytical skills with proficiency in Excel and/or data modeling tools.
• Ability to work across various stakeholders and navigate complex requests.
• Ability to communicate complex financial data clearly to cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills:

• Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication and customer service skills to be able to interact effectively with all levels of personnel within and outside of the Legacy Health community.
• Proficiency using computers: Excel, databases, PowerPoint, and Word software.
• Advanced technical knowledge requirements include mathematical and statistical skills for data analysis.
• Ability to work with detailed data.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously meeting deadlines.
• A thorough understanding of wage and hour laws.

CCP certification preferred.

Our Legacy is good for health for Our People, Our Patients, Our Communities, Our World. Above all, we will do the right thing.

If you are passionate about our mission and believe you can contribute to our team, we encourage you to applyeven if you don't meet every qualification listed. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can grow and succeed.

Legacy Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits unlawful discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion or creed, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

To learn more about our employee benefits click here: www.legacyhealth.org/For-Health-Professionals/careers/benefiting-you