Senior Manager, Compensation & Acquisitions

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Sr. Manager, Compensation & Acquisitions to join the LNA Corporate Team in a hybrid role. This position will help strengthen compensation governance, support major compensation programs, and co-lead HR integration work for acquisitions across all HR areas, not just compensation. The ideal candidate combines strong HR judgment, project leadership, analytical discipline, and the ability to translate complex topics into clear recommendations for HR, Finance, and business leaders. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, or a related field required; advanced degree or compensation certification preferred.
• Progressive & relevant HR experience with exposure to compensation, HR operations, annual planning, acquisition integration, job architecture, market pricing, or total rewards preferred.
• Strong project management, stakeholder influence, analytical, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to work with confidential compensation, employee, business, and acquisition information with sound judgment and discretion.
• Experience translating technical HR or compensation topics into practical guidance for executives, HR partners, managers, and business leaders.

• Partner with each of the HR integration leaders for multiple acquisitions to project manage HR integration across all workstreams, preparing weekly integration team meeting agendas, co-facilitating the meeting, sharing lessons learned across the different workstreams and different acquisitions.
• With the VP of HR People Services, co-own the Acquisition Integration Playbook template and make it a living project plan and knowledgebase that is used weekly for each acquisition with deal customizations as needed. We usually have 2-4 acquisitions ongoing at any time.
• Lead compensation governance activities, analyses, recommendations, and implementation planning.
• Manage key compensation programs and annual-cycle work, including merit planning, bonus target governance, wage transparency, pay equity support, living wage remediation planning, recognition governance, and related change management.
• Coordinate market data, job architecture, Hay framework education, and compensation capability building for HR partners.
• Lead compensation integration for acquisitions, including baseline assessment, salary planning readiness, governance alignment, bonus philosophy, communication planning, and lessons learned.
• Partner with HRIS, Finance, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, Communications, HR M&A managers, HR Directors, HR Generalists, business leaders, and external compensation experts to deliver consistent, scalable outcomes.