For more than 50 years, millions of professional truck drivers and motorists have called our travel centers home, depending on us daily for fuel, food, truck maintenance and essential services.

Now a part of the bp family, TA is focused on growing its network of travel centers, implementing cutting edge technology and embarking on innovative alternative energy and sustainability initiatives.

From our locations across the country, to our corporate headquarters in Westlake, Ohio, every team member is a stakeholder in TA’s success. This environment offers endless career opportunities for individuals interested in sharing their ideas, growing with the company and shaping TA’s future.

Job Summary

The Compensation & Benefit Analyst is responsible to evaluate and maintain the company’s pay structure and compensation plans and serves as a back-up in administration of the benefit programs.

Duties and Responsibilities

Compensation

• Conducts market studies and analysis and recommend compensation structures to ensure internal equity, external competitiveness, and alignment to the company’s compensation philosophy
• Creates, maintains, analyzes, and distributes materials related to the execution of all compensation programs
• Assists in managing the process of bonus/incentive/commission plan setup, payment calculation, analysis and communication of plan-to-date achievement/earnings
• Conducts job evaluations for newly created or revised positions, recommends a salary grade and updates job descriptions as needed
• Partners with the payroll team to ensure timely plan deployment, payroll submissions, and audit compliance
• Audits the compensation, payroll and workforce data/processes to ensure compliant, accurate data
• Performs special studies, analysis and recommendations on compensation and other human resources related issues as needed
• Maintains and manages the salary, variable pay and job profile creation in PeopleSoft
• Administers job structures, compensation ranges, other compensation guidelines

Benefits

• Serves as a backup for the processing of benefit plan payments and respoding to carriers on benefit related STD/LTD questions.

General

• Develops and maintain collaborative relationships with key partners in HR, Legal, Finance, Accounting and Executive Leadership
• Responds to multiple ad hoc analyses and requests from business partners

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business or other related field preferred
• Minimum 1 year of compensation experience preferred
• Minimum 1 year analysis experience preferred
• Working knowledge of federal Fair Labor Standards Act
• Strong critical thinking skills
• Strong general understanding of payroll, human resources and benefits processes
• High level of proficiency using Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent customer service
• Well organized with the ability to handle multiple tasks while ensuring accuracy and deadline controls

With us, you’ll enjoy:

• Competitive wages and annual bonus opportunity
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• 401(k) with a company match
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• A wide variety of discounts on technology, travel, food and fuel
• Opportunity for growth and advancement with company paid training

A pay range listed reflects the potential pay for this role. The pay will depend on various factors, such as responsibilities of the position, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Not all positions posted will have a pay range listed.

Not all benefit plans are available to all team members. For a more comprehensive list of benefits, please visit

Our travel centers serve thousands every day; not one traveler is the same and our team must reflect that. We can "return every traveler to the road better than they came" only by understanding and celebrating individualism. TravelCenters of America is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, familial status, ancestry, sex, gender, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, handicap, military service or Veteran status, genetic information or membership in any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local law. At TravelCenters of America, we invite everyone to make themselves at home.

Individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation related to our recruiting process. If you would like to request an accommodation related to the recruitment process, please email us at In your email, please include your first and last name, phone number, the position and location for which you are applying, and details pertaining to the accommodation request.

Working Conditions / Physical Requirements

In this role, the employee is continuously sitting and typing, frequently talking and using eye and hand coordination and may also be required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to lift and/or move objects. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Standing, walking, bending over, and repetitive use of legs are done occasionally. All performed with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Disclaimer

This job description may not list all duties for this position. The incumbent in the position may be asked to perform other duties. TA Operating LLC reserves the right to revise the job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment, and either the incumbent or TA Operating LLC may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.