Sara Chesson

About Sara Chesson

Strategic consultant with a ten-year background in human resources, global compensation, talent acquisition, and outside sales. Experienced in leading complex projects with critical financial and operational impacts across startups and large scale corporations. Utilizes data analysis to influence strategic decision making as well as automation technologies to drive efficiencies and improve business results.

Experience

1. Compensation Consultant Ii

   Allstate

   Oct 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   2024 Performance Rating: Raises the Bar (4/5)• Benchmark jobs using MarketPay, analyze survey data, and consult with HRBPs on market-driven compensation strategies. Price roles, assign pay grades, and review employee market quartile distribution to support equitable pay decisions. Lead AI-driven survey matching automation.• Support Allstate’s Law & Regulation department by partnering with HRBPs on competitive analysis and job architecture for attorney and non-attorney legal roles. Lead annual bonus planning for 400+ claims litigation attorneys. • Manage global multi-million retention bonus program for Allstate’s Family of Companies. Collaborate with leaders to approve retention bonus business cases, collect legal documents, and partner with Payroll to deliver payments.• Strategic liaison for Talent Acquisition (TA) team. Lead automation of the salary analysis report in Workday to deliver key compensation data to recruiters and improve market-driven offers to candidates. Support TA during annual merit cycles. • Support Allstate’s global Workday implementation in mid-2024 by testing compensation configurations in tenants across non-production environments. Validate end-to-end processes, logged defects, and provided design feedback to ensure system readiness for launch in production.• Support Allstate’s global compensation strategy by partnering with key stakeholders to coordinate policy alignment on bilingual pay, shift & geographic differentials, overtime pay, and retention bonuses. • Core member of Allstate’s Job Environment Team leading enterprise-wide job architecture modernization projects for over 1,400 job families. Govern requests for new job families and levels in JDMS, support team benchmarking practices, ensure compliance with FLSA laws, and eliminate redundancies. • Key consultant for compensation technology implementation and reporting processes. Deliver weekly reports for internal team use.

Education

• Williamston High School

  High School Diploma, Principles of Business & Finance

  2006 — 2010

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Bachelor's Degree, International/Global Studies

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Windows
• Teaching
• Administration
• Vms
• Consulting
• Spanish
• Temp-to-Perm
• Solar Energy
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Outlook
• Management
• English
• Event Planning
• Teamwork
• Nannies
• Screening
• Academic Tutoring
• Logistics
• Training
• Customer Satisfaction
• Sustainable Energy
• Permanent Staffing
• Behavioral Interviewing
• Interviewing
• Onboarding
• Manufacturing
• Kindergarten
• Cold Calling
• Microsoft Word
• Cpr Certified
• Recruiting
• Team Leadership
• B2b
• Chinese
• Communication
• Relationship Building
• Staffing Services
• Html
• Human Resources