100% Remote
Monday - Friday 8-5 - Candidate must work CST time zone - hours may verify depending on business needs
Interviews Via Teams
Key success hinges on meeting the 30‑day deliverables and navigating a fast‑paced, rapidly evolving environment with limited direction, drawing heavily on practical, real‑world experience.
Overview
We are seeking an experienced contractor to support the design, modeling, and evaluation of a non exempt incentive program pilot. This role will be responsible for translating incentive design concepts into data-driven models, ensuring compliance with applicable labor and safety regulations, and clearly communicating expected outcomes to stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
• Design and refine non-exempt incentive plans using applied, real-world experience
• Develop advanced analytical models to evaluate incentive cost, performance, and financial impact
• Build gainshare-based models using defined metrics, weighted measures, and performance thresholds
• Ensure incentive design frameworks and payout calculations align with FLSA requirements (including regular rate of pay, overtime implications, and non-discretionary earnings treatment)
• Incorporate OSHA considerations into incentive design to avoid unintended safety risks or behaviors that could discourage incident reporting or safe work practices
• Create scalable models that support multiple scenarios and assumptions to assess risk and opportunity
• Partner with stakeholders to validate drivers, metrics, outcomes, and compliance considerations
• Clearly and concisely present model outputs, expected results, compliance implications, and key insights to varied audiences
• Translate complex analytical findings into actionable, compliant recommendations
Must-Have Qualifications
• Applied experience designing non-exempt incentive plans, including production- or driver-based programs
• Demonstrated working knowledge of FLSA regulations, including how incentive pay impacts overtime calculations and total compensation compliance
• Awareness of OSHA principles as they relate to incentive plan design, particularly in avoiding safety-disincentivizing structures
• Advanced analytics skills, with demonstrated ability to develop detailed cost analyses tied to defined and weighted performance metrics
• Proven experience working within gainshare or incentive-based compensation models
• Ability to build and maintain multi-scenario models to support forecasting, decision-making, and compliance impact analysis
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to quickly and effectively explain expected outcomes, compliance considerations, and meaningful results to non-technical stakeholders
• Background in compensation, workforce incentives, operations, or performance management
• Proficiency in Excel and analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python)
• Experience supporting pilot programs or incentive test-and-learn initiatives
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, iterative environment with limited direction
Deliverables Within the First 30 Days
• Incentive design and cost modeling artifacts, including FLSA impact considerations
• Scenario analyses with clearly defined assumptions, outcomes, and compliance implications
• Executive-ready summaries and presentations outlining results, risks, and recommendations