Principal Consultant Total Rewards

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• Named to Becker’s Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare — three years running.

• Consistently ranked among SIA’s Largest Staffing Firms in America.

• Honored with Modern Healthcare’s Innovators Award for driving change through innovation.

• Proud holder of The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Staffing Companies since 2006.

Principal Consultant, Total Rewards

Position Summary

The Principal Consultant, Total Rewards, works directly with the Vice President, Total Rewards, and collaborates closely with leaders across the team's various subfunctions. This role will support a diverse range of strategic and operational initiatives, including executive and equity compensation, sales incentive planning, broad-based compensation, benefits and wellness strategies, and total rewards training and communications. The ideal candidate will help develop key enterprise deliverables—such as materials for the Talent and Compensation Committee, proxy reports, Total Rewards communication, and incentive models—while promoting operational excellence and supporting cross-functional initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Executive Compensation & Governance:

• Partner with the VP, Total Rewards on long-term incentive design, equity program modeling, and performance-based award analysis.

• Support the design, modeling, and administration of executive compensation programs.

• Prepare, validate, and maintain materials for the Compensation Committee and senior leadership.

• Own Total Rewards deliverables related to SEC compliance, including pay-versus-performance reporting, CEO pay ratio, and other required disclosures.

Sales Compensation & Incentive Design:

• Serve as a subject-matter resource for sales incentive and commission plan design, modeling, optimization, and performance monitoring.

• Partner with Total Rewards, Sales Operations, and IT leaders in the RFP, selection, and implementation of a Sales Compensation Management SaaS solution.

Total Rewards Integration & Operational Excellence:

• Support enterprise compensation initiatives such as benchmarking, job architecture updates, market pricing, and structure refresh cycles.

• Develop and deliver leader-facing compensation training programs.

• Lead the design of process and system enhancements to improve simplification, data integrity, reporting, and compliance.

• Provide consultative support to HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders.

Benefits & Wellness Strategy, Planning & Compliance:

• Collaborate with Enterprise Benefits and Wellness leader to evaluate, design, and administer health, welfare, retirement, and wellness programs.

• Support annual renewals, benchmarking, cost modeling, and RFP processes.

• Assist with communication materials, program updates, and employee education efforts.

• Support ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Finance, Business, or related field; advanced degree preferred.

• 7+ years of progressive experience in Total Rewards, with demonstrated depth in compensation.

• Experience supporting proxy reporting preferred.

• Strong analytical skills, advanced Excel proficiency, and exceptional attention to details.

• Proficiency in HRIS and compensation tools preferred.

• Effective communication skills with the ability to manage confidential information and partner across functions.

• People leadership experience is an advantage.

• Progress toward CCP, CECP, CEBS, or related certifications preferred.

Competencies

• Strategic Consulting: Synthesizes data, regulations, and business strategy into actionable recommendations.

• Analytical Rigor: Demonstrates advanced modeling and problem-solving capability.

• Regulatory Acumen: Strong understanding of compensation and benefits compliance requirements.

• Cross-functional influence: Demonstrates the ability to lead, influence, and drive alignment across HR, Finance, Legal, Sales Operations, and business units—both with and without formal authority.

• Executive Presence: Communicates complex concepts with clarity, precision, and diplomacy.

• Learning Agility: Demonstrates capacity to take on increasingly complex Total Rewards work.

• Professional Judgment: Handles sensitive compensation and benefits information with discretion.

  Work Environment / Physical Requirements

• Work is performed in an office/home office environment.

• Team Members must have the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards.

• AMN Healthcare will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions of the job.

  Our Core Values

  ● Respect ● Passion ● Continuous Improvement ● Trust ● Customer Focus ● Innovation

  At AMN we embrace the ways we are similar and different; respecting all voices and ensuring everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our collective success. We acknowledge our shared responsibility to foster a welcoming environment where everyone feels recognized and valued. We cast a wide net to recruit and retain competitive talent and build healthcare workforces supportive of the communities we serve. We believe in the power of compassion and collaboration to build healthy communities where access to quality care is available to all. Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

  At AMN we recognize that in-person connections have value and promote collaboration. You will be expected to come into an AMN Healthcare office at a frequency dependent on the work arrangement for your role.