Compensation Manager (US and Canada)

Location: Westchester, IL, United States. Travel requirement up to 10%.

Salary: $111,940–$139,930 per year.

Company

RB Global operates an omnichannel marketplace, auction sites, and digital platforms for commercial assets and vehicles, serving customers in more than 170 countries.

What you will do

• Develop, implement, and manage compensation strategy and programs across the US and Canada.
• Own annual merit, equity grant, promotion, and incentive bonus cycles, including budgeting, manager guidance, calibration, and payroll handoff.
• Administer the Annual Incentive Plan, maintain salary structures, and design short-term incentive programs.
• Lead salary survey participation, market pricing, offer and promotion recommendations, pay equity analysis, reporting, and dashboards.
• Build and maintain job architecture, job families, levels, leveling guides, title conventions, mapping, and benchmarking processes.
• Partner with People teams, business leaders, Finance, Payroll, Internal Audit, and other stakeholders on governance, compliance, organizational changes, severance, M&A, and compensation communications.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of three compensation professionals while standardizing processes and resolving complex cases.

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive compensation experience, including at least 2 years leading or mentoring others.
• Hands-on experience running annual merit and incentive cycles for workforces in both the US and Canada.
• Strong market research, analysis, and pricing skills using major survey providers such as WTW, Mercer, or Radford.
• Experience designing incentive programs, including annual bonus and equity or long-term incentive plans.
• Working knowledge of US and Canadian compensation regulations, including FLSA, provincial exemption rules, pay transparency, and pay equity laws.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills, plus experience with an HRIS compensation module such as Workday.
• Outstanding communication, influencing, interpersonal, management, and conflict resolution skills, with executive-level credibility.
• Strong project management, change management, and organizational skills, with the ability to implement People policies and processes at scale.
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to a fast-paced culture, changing environments, and shifting priorities.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting compensation outside North America, including the UK, Europe, Australia, or Asia-Pacific.
• Experience building or rolling out job architecture or leveling frameworks.
• Exposure to sales incentive plans or M&A integration.
• Experience in a publicly traded company, including proxy or Compensation Committee materials.

Culture & Benefits

• Corporate role supporting a global marketplace and business operations.
• Cross-functional collaboration with People teams, Finance, Payroll, Internal Audit, and business leaders.
• Work across compensation programs serving employees in the US and Canada.
• Equal opportunity employment and nondiscrimination in accordance with applicable laws.