Manager, Incentive Compensation

Company: Horizon Therapeutics
Location: Evanston
Posted on: May 17, 2023

Job Description:

At Horizon Therapeutics, we define success by the number of lives touched, lives changed, and lives saved. Our global biotechnology company is made up of agile, out-of-the-box thinkers with a focus on delivering breakthrough medicines to those living with rare, autoimmune, and severe inflammatory diseases. This is the heart of our global mission. Start a career that enables you to live up to your potential and help others live up to theirs. Join us.

The exceptional support we provide patients and communities equally extends to our employees. We offer industry-leading and award-winning benefits, compensation and rewards programs that positively impact all areas of our employees' personal and professional lives.

Position Summary:

As a Manager within our Commercial Operations team, you will play a critical role in developing and administering creatively designed incentive compensation plans and contests for our field teams. You will provide accurate and in-depth compensation analyses to cross-functional leadership teams, lead initiatives to ensure motivational IC/bonus plans for the sales force and matrix partners teams, and will serve as an integral part of the extended commercial team. Using your highly developed analytical skills and leveraging your expert-level knowledge of Excel to manipulate large data sets, you will work cross-functionally with internal and external partners to design, implement and pay out quarterly incentive programs specifically tailored to the unique nature of each of our business units. Using your market knowledge and your expertise, you will collaborate with the field and commercial operations leadership teams to design programs that drive results. You will interact regularly with field leadership and will be responsible to explain the strategies via formal or ad-hoc presentations. In addition, you will also track and monitor the success of each program, and modify initiatives, as required, to ensure that strategies are met. Given our growth trajectory and the rapid pace of change in the pharmaceutical industry, you will need a strong sense of urgency and initiative in order to stay ahead of the ever- changing market dynamics. Your personal responsibility and self-sufficiency will be put to use as you drive for results and make things happen quarter over quarter and watch as your plans impact the company's bottom line.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with internal stakeholders and external vendors to design, model, and execute field incentive and compensation plans that support the field force objectives as determined by senior leadership
• Deliver fact-based recommendations on ways to improve incentive compensation strategies and increase overall field force success in meeting business objectives
• Provide accurate and in-depth analyses to cross-functional leadership teams and serve as an integral part of the extended commercial team
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Analytics team to meet data analysis needs in support of key strategic field force initiatives and field incentive programs
• Develop presentations for field leadership or appropriate audiences
• Leverage expertise in working with large data sets
• Support initiatives to drive field force effectiveness
• Support ad hoc projects and tasks as needed
• Continually scan the external world to keep abreast of changing incentive compensation trends
  
  Qualifications and Skills Required:
  
  • Bachelor's (BA/BS) required
  • 6+ years in incentive compensation, analytics, consulting and/or field operations; minimum of 2+ years of incentive compensation experience
  • Expertise working with large data sets and analytical software, including Microsoft Office with strong analytical skills and ability to interpret data to make confident recommendations; must possess strong attention to detail
  • Ability to work in highly dynamic and fluid environments, and possess solid communication skills (both written and verbal)
  • High degree of independence, exceptional work ethic, and a solid team player who possesses the ability to interact and interface with all levels of management
  • Professional, proactive demeanor
    
    Our Values
    
    • Transparency: We value collaboration. Trusting teach other and tackling tough challenges can make a powerful difference.
    • Accountability: We do what's right for our patient communities through quality decisions and owning our successes and failures.
    • Growth: We fiercely innovate and evolve to better ourselves, our communities and our patients.
      
      These three values come to life through our five Leadership Expectations that apply to all Horizon employees
      
      • Enterprise Mindset: Look beyond one's team, brand or function to see the broader company and external perspective
      • Exhibit Intellectual Curiosity: Seek to understand what you do not know; ask the right questions of the right people and sources
      • Ensure Accountability and Courage: Step up to address difficult issues and hold self and others accountable to commitments
      • Embrace Diverse Perspectives: Welcome others with a respectful attitude; integrate diverse perspectives into ways of working
      • Develop Talent: Provide feedback, coaching and mentorship to help others be more effective in their role
        
        At Horizon, we know that disease does not discriminate. We embrace the bold ideas of one another, foster a sense of belonging, and value inclusion. We attract and develop diverse talent because we believe that when people from different backgrounds and life experiences come together, we make lives better.
        
        Horizon intends that all qualified applications are given equal opportunity, and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.
        
        Our Values
        
        • Transparency: We value collaboration. Trusting teach other and tackling tough challenges can make a powerful difference.
        • Accountability: We do what's right for our patient communities through quality decisions and owning our successes and failures.
        • Growth: We fiercely innovate and evolve to better ourselves, our communities and our patients.
          
          These three values come to life through our five Leadership Expectations that apply to all Horizon employees
          
          • Enterprise Mindset: Look beyond one's team, brand or function to see the broader company and external perspective
          • Exhibit Intellectual Curiosity: Seek to understand what you do not know; ask the right questions of the right people and sources
          • Ensure Accountability and Courage: Step up to address difficult issues and hold self and others accountable to commitments
          • Embrace Diverse Perspectives: Welcome others with a respectful attitude; integrate diverse perspectives into ways of working
          • Develop Talent: Provide feedback, coaching and mentorship to help others be more effective in their role
            
            At Horizon, we know that disease does not discriminate. We embrace the bold ideas of one another, foster a sense of belonging, and value inclusion. We attract and develop diverse talent because we believe that when people from different backgrounds and life experiences come together, we make lives better.
            
            Horizon intends that all qualified applications are given equal opportunity, and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

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