Director, Total Rewards

The objective of this role is to attract, retain, engage, and motivate talent across Canada by leading and orchestrating all Total Rewards activities, including programs, processes, and solutions.

The incumbent will serve as a credible thought partner to the business and HR and be accountable for delivering consistent, locally applicable practices on all Canadian Total Rewards matters.

The Director, Total Rewards Canada will implement guidelines and processes for base pay, short-term and long-term incentive plans, recognition, benefits, and harmonization activities, applying local market insights while aligning with Adecco Group’s Global Rewards’ principles and philosophy.

Compensation Activities:

• Manage broad-based compensation processes, including the annual compensation review, market intelligence, and benchmarking, ensuring fair and equitable execution aligned with Group Reward principles and philosophy.
• Collaborate with local HR teams to ensure total reward activities comply with local government requirements.
• Manage Job Architecture and Job Grading activities for Canada, ensuring accurate position grading and maintained internal comparisons.
• Provide data and benchmarking information to Recruitment Partners.

Incentive Plans:

• Oversee and provide strategic guidance for the implementation and administration of field/sales incentive compensation plans, including modeling and analysis to ensure ROI and cost-effectiveness.
• Review, maintain, and ensure alignment of the short-term incentive plan framework and compensation plans with the Group Rewards strategy.
• Steer and manage the design and review of incentive plans.
• Partner closely with Finance to monitor performance levels and forecasting, establish participation criteria, and implement controls and governance for short-term incentive plans and payouts using appropriate data modeling.

Benefits

• Short-term focus on leading benefits harmonization initiative and streamlining its administration across the different businesses in Canada
• Partner with Country HR and the Benefits COE to ensure that the overall benefit programs reflect the Rewards strategy, current and future needs of Colleagues.
• Manage the hands-on administration of the benefit plans; working closely with the HR Shared Services Center ( HRSSC)..
• Communication of benefits programs through multiple accessible formats.

Business Partnering and relationships.

• Responsible for establishing, building, and maintaining strong relationships that support strategic objectives.
• Skilled in communicating effectively verbally and in writing with various levels of employees and management.

Transformation, Project Management & Continuous Improvement

• Lead and participates in country specific and regional projects to drive continuous improvement and streamlining of current practices.
• Steer local teams to align, streamline and consistently apply and use the resources, tools, policy, and processes for pay and performance.

Additional Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with all relevant laws and regulations with a strong understanding of Canadian market
• Develop and deliver training programs for managers and HR teams on effective compensation practices.
• Conduct regular audits to ensure the integrity of compensation data and processes.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required. Professional certifications in compensation/ Benefits/ Total Rewards (e.g., CCP or equivalent) are desirable.
• Experience: Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in Total Rewards, with strong knowledge of the Canadian Compensation and Benefits market.
• Expertise: Proficient in broad-based compensation including market intelligence, job grading, and incentive plan design.
• Analytical Skills: Strong demonstrated analytical skills.
• Communication: Clear and professional communicator, both verbal and written, with the ability to present compensation materials effectively.
• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively across functions and business units.
• Relationship Building: Can develop strong working relationships across all levels within the organization.
• Process Improvement: Strong interest in and ability to improve practices and processes.
• Adaptability: Flexibility to work in a fast-paced environment and manage changing priorities.
• Integrity: Reputation for integrity and dedicated work ethic with a desire for ownership and accountability.
• Discretion: Compliant, discrete, and independent operator.
• Numeracy and Business Acumen: Highly numerate with strong business acumen.
• Travel: Ability to travel up to 20%.

It’s an exciting time to be part of our team. We’re proud to be a global thought-leader and care about doing the best job we can to ensure better futures for everyone. We do this by building our Future@Work strategy as a united team of 30,000+ colleagues with a collective spirit working in over 60 countries globally.

You’ll have the opportunity to grow across a variety of interesting jobs and careers over our extensive portfolio of global brands. We empower our colleagues to work in the smartest, most efficient ways to achieve total balance between the demands of their jobs and their lives. That’s why we give you the autonomy and support you need to work in the way that makes you most productive, agile, confident and insightful.

Putting people first, pioneering with a collective spirit and always advancing with a growth mindset - that’s what we stand for at the Adecco Group. Here, we are all individuals with a unique perspective on the world we live in. That’s what makes us stronger. Whoever you are and whatever your background, you can be yourself. So, we aim to build on the attributes that make you, you. We offer a range of world-class resources for upskilling and development, satisfying your curiosity while sharing skills, knowledge and expertise to grow together.

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Posting date: 07-07-2024