Total Rewards Manager

Why Join Sunrise Senior Living

At Sunrise Senior Living, we believe meaningful work starts with purpose. Our team members are passionate about making a positive difference in the lives of residents every day.

Sunrise Senior Living is seeking a Total Rewards Manager to lead the analysis, design, administration, and continuous improvement of compensation and benefits programs across the U.S. and Canada. This strategic individual contributor serves as a trusted advisor to HR and senior leadership, using data and workforce analytics to connect total rewards investment with talent attraction, retention, pay equity, and business outcomes. This Total Rewards Manager role will have a large emphasis on compensation focused projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead compensation and benefits analytics, benchmarking, dashboards, workforce reporting, and executive-ready insights.
• Analyze large HR, payroll, market, and benefits datasets to forecast costs, identify trends, and measure program effectiveness.
• Support salary structures, pay ranges, job evaluations, market pricing, compensation philosophy, and annual compensation cycles.
• Conduct pay equity analyses, including regression modeling, remediation scenarios, and cost-impact analysis.
• Build financial models for base pay, short-term incentives, benefits funding, and cost-benefit scenarios.
• Support health, welfare, retirement, and wellbeing benefits strategy, plan design, renewals, benchmarking, and vendor management.
• Partner with HR, Finance, HRBPs, brokers, vendors, and senior leadership on Total Rewards strategy and projects.
• Ensure compliance with applicable pay transparency, minimum wage, ERISA, ACA, HIPAA, and COBRA requirements.
• Leverage Workday, HRIS, Excel, analytics, automation, AI, and machine-learning tools to improve reporting and decision-making.
• Develop clear compensation and benefits communications and support executive and investor-level reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; CCP, CEBS, CBP, or SHRM certification preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive compensation and benefits/Total Rewards experience.
• Experience with salary benchmarking, compensation structures, annual cycles, benefits design, pay equity, and financial modeling.
• Advanced Excel and HRIS/HCM experience, including Workday preferred.
• Strong analytical, data modeling, consulting, project management, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with large, multi-source datasets and executive reporting.
• Senior living, hospitality, or service industry experience preferred.

Total Rewards Manager | Compensation & Benefits | Pay Equity | HR Analytics

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Ready to take the next step and make a bigger impact than you ever imagined? As part of our team, you will help brighten the future for everyone at Sunrise and beyond. That is why we make it a priority to celebrate the unique ways you bring moments of togetherness and joy to everyone you serve. And when combined with the support, benefits, and growth opportunities we offer, the result is a career that PositivelyShines with everything you need to reach your goals – at work and in your life.

We also offer benefits and other compensation that include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Plans

• Retirement Savings Plans

• Employee Assistant Program / Discount Program

• Paid time off (PTO), sick time, and holiday pay

• myFlexPay offered to get paid within hours of a shift

• Tuition Reimbursement

• In addition to base compensation, Sunrise may offer discretionary and/or non-discretionary bonuses. The eligibility to receive such a bonus will depend on the employee’s position, plan/program offered by Sunrise at the time, and required performance pursuant to the plan/program.

• Some benefits have eligibility requirements

Apply today to learn why Sunrise Senior Living is a certified Great Place to Work®

Equal Opportunity Employer

Sunrise Senior Living is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.