Mgr-Incentives

The purpose of the Manager, Incentives is to lead a team providing exceptional incentive expertise, create feasible and impactful solutions that drive organizational performance, and support employees in interpretation and issue resolution.

• Has a deep understanding of all brands and key roles to ensure incentive plans align with business objectives and drive desired outcomes
• Influences support partners (FASS, P&C) on key decisions and drive toward project timelines
• Performs commission and incentive processing activities for assigned business unit(s)

Making an Impact
• Acts as the voice of the Incentives team, heavily relied upon by Finance Directors for commission analyses that impact brand P&L
• Learns and builds technical expertise, developing skills and capabilities of direct reports to execute configuration and setup tasks in Vericent system
• Provides support to field and sales organizations by researching and timely responding to inquiries. May require developing a project plan, gaining commitment to the plan, and driving execution in accordance with project timelines
• Manages relationship with compensation team – plan design, build and modeling
• Contribute to broader Finance team goals and objectives
• Evaluate issues and develop plans to address root cause issues systemically vs situationally

People Leadership
• Coaches, mentors, and drives performance of team (Incentive Analysts and Specialist; 3 direct reports)
• Oversees day to day work of the Incentive team, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. Ensures they are delivering effective field support and coaching on how to view and understand incentives
• Escalates issues and provides ongoing updates to leadership on progress against strategic initiatives
• Manages the work products and resourcing models of third party vendor Varicent (equivalent of 0.5 HC)

Your Typical Day
• Escalation point for all incentive team questions
• Tracking and analyzing commission/incentive activity
• Troubleshoot system calculation and reporting problems and resolve internally or utilize Varicent relationship to fix
• Attend brand finance leadership meetings
• Hybrid work model- expectation of in-office attendance 3 days per week
Other accountabilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

Required
• Education: Bachelor’s degree
• Finance: 5+ years in Finance group or Public Accounting, conducting customer or product-specific financial analysis
• Proficiency in commission tools (Varicent or similar software) and analytics tools (advanced Excel/MS suite)

Nice to Have
• Leadership: Prior people management
• Experience working in a large, global, matrixed organization

This position is based in our Global Headquarters located in downtown Milwaukee. Employees can enjoy an onsite cafeteria, coffee shop and gym along with beautiful views of the Milwaukee river, Deer District, and historic downtown architecture. ManpowerGroup is proud to support a flexible working environment. Employees may work virtual some of the time depending on role (1-2 days per week).

ManpowerGroup is proud to be an equal opportunity affirmative action workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, political ideology, ancestry, the presence of any physical, sensory, or mental disabilities, or other legally protected status.

A strong commitment is made by each employee and is necessary to ensure equal employment opportunity for all. ManpowerGroup is an inclusive workplace that will recruit, hire, train, and promote persons of all job titles, and ensure all other personnel actions are administered without regard to non-merit-based characteristics of individuals. Reasonable accommodation during the interview process can be provided.