Staff Compensation & Benefits Partner

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

As Staff Compensation and Benefits Partner at Micron Technology, Inc. for APAC, you will be responsible for regional support of Micron’s Total Rewards programs with primary focus on Japan. You will work under the direction of the APAC Total Rewards  Director. You will also be responsible for supporting continuous improvement of global rewards program and assist in the evaluation of the efficiency for improvements. You will help to evaluate Micron's reward competitiveness and alignment to the company’s business strategy and culture. You will partner, collaborate and advise key customers and internal partners.

Responsibilities and Tasks

Manage Compensation & Benefits Programs

• Benchmark current programs on a regular cadence and as requested for continuous improvement
• Evaluate program for inefficiencies and areas for improvement
• Work with internal partners and customers to identify and implement needed plan changes
• Gather and review employee and/or management feedback, current and future needs and industry trends
• Communicate and coordinate changes with impacted personnel team members, vendors, and management
• Develop and maintain program documentation and team member reference materials
• Ensure legal compliance
• Support team member onboarding/offboarding activities relating to those programs

Consult, Educate and Be A Great Partner with Customers

• Identify, clarify and research employee needs and address program questions
• Evaluate and critique options to recommend solution that the best fit customer needs and align to business objectives and budget
• Develop and review proposed solution and cost modeling with vital internal experts and partners
• Build and provide training to managers and team members regularly on Total Rewards topics
• Solicit process feedback from global customers and peers and implement improvements
• Communicate and establish relationships and credibility with key contacts (site leaders, area leaders, business partners, executives)

Conduct New Job Analysis and Maintain Job Inventories

• Interview leaders and/or business partners to identify job description
• Determine best match by researching against current job library and other third party survey benchmark jobs
• Identify justification if a new job is needed (business, geographic, regulatory, population size)
• Determine recommended actions and follow-up with customers
• Build new job and update all reference material

Ensure Regulatory Compliance

• Keep up to date on the understanding of regulations and potential changes
• Consult with internal and external authorities
• Identify liabilities, recommend and implement solutions
• Implement, communicate, and maintain ongoing compliance processes where applicable

Establish and Maintain Pay Ranges

• Submit and collect data through third party market surveys
• Evaluate job matches to market for validity and analyze data
• Make recommendations for change to ranges based on comp philosophy and strategy
• Consult with Executives and business partner to validate ranges
• Perform continued evaluation

Produce and Analyze Compensation & Benefits Reports

• Assess needs, design, generate, maintain and distribute reports as needed to key customers and partners
• Analyze, interpret and present results to appropriate partners
• Complete modeling scenarios, develop recommendations and generate evaluation summaries based on data

Maintain Compensation & Benefits Data and Systems

• Receive, evaluate, process and audit data change request and results
• Update, troubleshoot and resolve system errors as needed
• Perform detailed global system testing
• Ensure data integrity in existing systems
• Raise issues to appropriate party(s) and validate issue resolution

Projects

• Participate on project teams as a representative of the Total Rewards team and act as a Japan subject matter authority to provide counsel, advice and support

Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in related field
• Strong AI related skills with knowledge on AI utilization and application to job role including use of agentic AI and other models
• Must have advanced Microsoft Excel Skills
• PowerPoint and Word proficiency
• Ability to analyze data, identify data quality issues, and provide solutions or approaches to solve data problems with fair amount of knowledge in statistical methods.
• Very strong verbal and written communication skills in Japanese & English
• Excellent interpersonal and time management skills
• Minimum 8 years of Compensation & Benefits experience in reputed tech companies in Japan

Preferred

• CCP or GRP designation

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

To learn more, please visit micron.com/careers

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

To request assistance with the application process and/or for reasonable accommodations, please contact hrsupport_japan@micron.com

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