M2M2 — Manager II
Senior Manager
Manages a small team of C&B professionals and takes ownership of one large program or multiple smaller programs.
What this level means
Manages an established team or sub-function; owns planning and performance for the group.
- Scope
- An established team or sub-function
- Autonomy
- Owns planning for the group
- Complexity
- Cross-project coordination and priorities
- Impact
- Group delivery and development
- Decision rights
- Owns staffing, priorities, performance for the group
- Leadership
- Manages a team; sometimes manages leads
- Typical experience
- 5–8 yrs
What you'd do
- Design and recommend updates to compensation structures
- Lead the annual compensation planning cycle
- Coordinate pay transparency initiatives
- Design compensation structures
- Lead compensation planning
- Coordinate transparency initiatives
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Compensation design
- Program management
- Team leadership
- Strategic planning
- Communication
- Compensation structures
- Program management
- Leadership principles
- Pay transparency
- HR strategy
- Project management
- Consultative communication
- Leadership
What good looks like
- 7–10 years in C&B
- Experience managing people or projects
- Experience executing programs
Common titles
Senior Manager
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 13-0000 — Business & Financial Operations Occupations(inferred · under review)
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.