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Position Details
The Global Total Rewards Analyst is an analyst-level individual contributor responsible for supporting the administration, analysis, and governance of scalable global Total Rewards programs across compensation, benefits, and mobility.
This role supports both Total Rewards strategy and execution across:
- Broad-based compensation and incentive administration
- Global job architecture, leveling, and market pricing
- Benefits, retirement, wellbeing, and vendor administration
- Global mobility case coordination and compliance
- Manager and employee education, reporting, and decision enablement
Success in this role requires strong analytical capability, attention to detail, discretion with sensitive employee data, and the ability to translate complex Total Rewards information into clear, practical guidance. The Analyst serves as a data steward, process coordinator, and trusted support partner to HR, Finance, Legal, regional HR teams, vendors, managers, and employees.
Primary Responsibilities
Compensation Analysis & Framework Support
- Support global job architecture, job leveling, salary structure maintenance, and market pricing activities to ensure role clarity, internal equity, and market competitiveness.
- Assist with annual compensation planning activities, including data preparation, budget modeling, Workday cycle support, and post-cycle reporting.
- Support broad-based compensation and incentive administration by collecting data, validating assumptions, maintaining documentation, and coordinating recurring deliverables.
Benefits, Wellbeing & Retirement Program Support
- Support administration and continuous improvement of health and welfare, retirement, time off and company paid leave, wellbeing, and ancillary benefit programs across regions.
- Coordinate benefit program materials, renewals, vendor documentation, plan governance documents, and audit-ready files.
Global Mobility & Compliance Operations
- Provide operational and analytical support for international assignments, immigration, relocations, transfers, and cross-border arrangements.
- Maintain mobility case trackers, employee and vendor documentation, cost estimates, and status updates to support consistent employee experience.
- Coordinate with employees, vendors, HR partners, Legal, Finance, and regional teams to support timely and accurate mobility processes.
Governance, Analytics & Enterprise Advisory Support
- Support vendor management activities, including data requests, contract and renewal tracking, invoice review, performance reporting, and follow-up.
- Partner with HR Business Partners to provide data, reporting, and practical support for business-specific compensation, benefits, and mobility needs.
- Handle sensitive employee and compensation information with confidentiality, accuracy, and sound judgment.
Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Finance, Analytics, or a related field; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
- 3–5 years of experience in compensation, benefits, HR operations, mobility, finance, or HR analytics; global or multi-site organization experience preferred.
- Strong analytical and data management skills; advanced Excel capability preferred, including lookups, pivot tables, formulas, and basic modeling.
- Experience working with HRIS, compensation, or benefits systems; Workday experience preferred.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- High attention to detail, strong follow-through, sound judgment, and ability to maintain confidentiality when working with sensitive employee and compensation data.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities across stakeholders, deadlines, countries, vendors, and recurring Total Rewards cycles.
Compensation
- The salary for this role will range from 77,220.00 - 115,495.00 USD annual based on full-time employment. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to location, relevant skills, training, experience, education, etc.
- Certain roles may be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation and/or long-term incentives. Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.
- Novanta supports all aspects of your life’s needs. This position provides a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits to make your quality of life better.
Why This Role Matters
This role helps strengthen the Total Rewards infrastructure that enables Novanta to attract, retain, engage, and support a highly skilled global workforce. By improving data quality, process discipline, communication, governance, and analytics, the Global Total Rewards Analyst contributes to a more consistent, compliant, scalable, and employee-centered Total Rewards experience.
Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.
Please call +1 781-266-5700 if you need a disability accommodation for any part of the employment process.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Administration, Finance, Analytics or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 3-5 years experience in compensation, benefits, HR operations, mobility, finance, or HR analytics
- Experience working with HRIS, compensation, or benefits systems
- Advanced Excel capability (lookups, pivot tables, formulas, basic modeling)
- Workday experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- High attention to detail, strong follow-through, sound judgment, and ability to maintain confidentiality
- Ability to manage multiple priorities across stakeholders, deadlines, countries, vendors, and recurring Total Rewards cycles
- Experience in a global or multi-site organization
Novanta Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Novanta and has not been reviewed or approved by Novanta.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, mental-health support, HSA/FSA options, telemedicine, and access to on-site clinics in select locations. Plan details indicate broad healthcare support across core needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Programs include flexible or unlimited time off for many professional roles and a separate PTO structure for non-exempt roles. Paid parental, family, and medical leave are highlighted as substantial in the U.S.
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Retirement Support — A strong 401(k) match with immediate vesting is emphasized. This structure provides meaningful employer support for long-term savings.
Novanta Insights
What We Do
Novanta delivers innovations that matter for its medical and advanced industrial OEM customers. If you have a passion for solving complex technical problems that lead to breakthrough performance and that enhance people's lives, come join our growing team. Here is a sample of the many exciting applications we serve: • Innovations that ensure the safety of patients and efficient workflows in hospitals using our novel RFID technology • Innovations in additive manufacturing, also known as 3-D metal printing, using our lightning fast lasers and laser beam steering sub-systems • Innovations in minimally invasive surgery using our highly reliable insufflators, pumps and visualization systems • Innovations in robotics and automation using our precision motors, encoders and drives for superior accuracy • Innovations in smartphone production using our fast, accurate lasers and laser beam steering equipment along with our precision motion systems The driving force behind our growth is the team of talented professionals who share our commitment to our values, and our passion for innovation and for our customers’ success. Novanta has deep expertise in precision medicine and manufacturing, medical solutions, and robotics and automation: Precision Medicine and Manufacturing: • Continuous wave, ultrafast and CO2 lasers, along with laser beam steering components and sub-systems Brands: ARGES, Cambridge Technology, Laser Quantum, Synrad Medical Solutions: Minimally Invasive Surgery: • Insufflators, pumps and disposable tube sets; medical visualization systems, video processing and wireless imaging Brands: NDS, Med X Change, Reach Technology, WOM Detection & Analysis: • RFID readers, machine vision solutions, barcode scanning, light and color measurement Brands: JADAK Robotics and Automation: • Motors, encoders, servo drives, air bearing systems and integrated mechatronic solutions Brands: ATI, Celera Motion (inc. Applimotion, Ingenia, MicroE, Zettlex, Westwind)








