What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Compensation Analyst position at Tennant Company?
Location: Eden Prairie, MN (Hybrid)
Team: Global Total Rewards
Reports to: Senior Manager, Global Total Rewards (Europe)
With more than $1B in revenue, Tennant Company is a globally recognized leader in the cleaning equipment industry. For the past 150 years, we have been passionate about developing and manufacturing innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers. At Tennant Company, we are committed to stewardship and creating a cleaner, safer and healthier world. With manufacturing, operations and sales, service, and support functions across the globe, your journey at Tennant can take you places you never expected.
Tennant Company is seeking a Senior Compensation Analyst to join our dynamic HR organization. This role plays an essential part in ensuring our compensation programs enable us to attract, retain, and reward top talent. As a key member of the Global Total Rewards team, this position focuses on job architecture, compensation planning, and equity administration, while serving as the primary Compensation point of contact for North America.
This role offers the opportunity to deepen compensation expertise through daily partnership with HR Business Partners, HRIS, and Benefits while contributing to global Total Rewards initiatives that have companywide impact.
Compensation Consulting & Partnership
Decision Quality: Applies structured, data‑driven judgment to compensation recommendations, job evaluations, and pay equity analyses.
Collaborates: Partners effectively across HRBP, Talent Acquisition, HRIS, and Benefits teams to enable aligned decisions.
Instills Trust: Maintains confidentiality, accuracy, and consistency in all compensation processes.
Drives Results: Manages compensation processes, data tasks, and annual cycles with efficiency and precision.
Ensures Accountability: Upholds compliance, compensation policy governance, and data integrity standards.
Nimble Learning: Quickly adapts to new systems, tools, and global Total Rewards practices.
Communicates Effectively: Provides clear, concise, and meaningful compensation insights and presentations.
Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $92,000 - 137,900
Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. Tennant Sales and Service Co. reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualifications of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity. Total Compensation = Base Salary Benefits
Benefits = A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, paid time off, and voluntary benefits!
Begin your journey with us. Let's reinvent how the world cleans.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Tennant Company is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of individual skill, ability, reliability, productivity, and other factors important to performance. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other basis protected by state or federal law or local ordinance.
Team: Global Total Rewards
Reports to: Senior Manager, Global Total Rewards (Europe)
With more than $1B in revenue, Tennant Company is a globally recognized leader in the cleaning equipment industry. For the past 150 years, we have been passionate about developing and manufacturing innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers. At Tennant Company, we are committed to stewardship and creating a cleaner, safer and healthier world. With manufacturing, operations and sales, service, and support functions across the globe, your journey at Tennant can take you places you never expected.
Tennant Company is seeking a Senior Compensation Analyst to join our dynamic HR organization. This role plays an essential part in ensuring our compensation programs enable us to attract, retain, and reward top talent. As a key member of the Global Total Rewards team, this position focuses on job architecture, compensation planning, and equity administration, while serving as the primary Compensation point of contact for North America.
This role offers the opportunity to deepen compensation expertise through daily partnership with HR Business Partners, HRIS, and Benefits while contributing to global Total Rewards initiatives that have companywide impact.
Compensation Consulting & Partnership
- Advise and partner with Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners, and managers on compensation decisions.
- Provide consultation for new hires, job changes, promotions, and ad hoc pay actions.
- Prepare and present clear, concise compensation recommendations.
- Administer compensation programs including base pay, long‑ and short‑term incentives, and recognition plans.
- Oversee stock plan administration including grants, vesting, exercises, and related process improvements.
- Manage compensation survey participation and submissions.
- Provide analytics using PayScale and other compensation tools.
- Conduct research on competitiveness, pay equity, and compensation trends.
- Maintain and govern job architecture, including job evaluations, market pricing, and salary structure management for the Americas; provide global support as needed.
- Contribute to annual merit, incentive, and salary planning using SAP SuccessFactors Compensation.
- Lead the annual compensation cycle in the forseeable future.
- Create and communicate compensation policies, procedures, and training materials.
- Support global compensation projects and compliance reporting obligations.
- Produce ad hoc queries and analyses using HR data systems.
- Monitor regulatory changes (FLSA, EEO, pay transparency) to maintain compliance.
- Bachelor’s degree in an analytical or business‑related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of Compensation experience.
- Proven analytical, modeling, and reporting capabilities.
- Strong HRIS experience, including data extraction and reporting.
- Ability to operate independently and manage multiple priorities.
- High attention to detail and understanding of downstream impacts of data errors.
- Expert‑level Excel proficiency (e.g., array formulas, Power Query).
- Experience with equity administration.
- Experience with SAP SuccessFactors.
Decision Quality: Applies structured, data‑driven judgment to compensation recommendations, job evaluations, and pay equity analyses.
Collaborates: Partners effectively across HRBP, Talent Acquisition, HRIS, and Benefits teams to enable aligned decisions.
Instills Trust: Maintains confidentiality, accuracy, and consistency in all compensation processes.
Drives Results: Manages compensation processes, data tasks, and annual cycles with efficiency and precision.
Ensures Accountability: Upholds compliance, compensation policy governance, and data integrity standards.
Nimble Learning: Quickly adapts to new systems, tools, and global Total Rewards practices.
Communicates Effectively: Provides clear, concise, and meaningful compensation insights and presentations.
Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $92,000 - 137,900
Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. Tennant Sales and Service Co. reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualifications of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity. Total Compensation = Base Salary Benefits
Benefits = A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, paid time off, and voluntary benefits!
Begin your journey with us. Let's reinvent how the world cleans.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Tennant Company is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of individual skill, ability, reliability, productivity, and other factors important to performance. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other basis protected by state or federal law or local ordinance.
Salary : $92,000 - $137,900