Sr. Director, Total Rewards

About Array Marketing For over 40 years, Array Marketing has been a global leader in retail displays and in-store merchandising solutions. With more than 1,800 employees worldwide, we partner with leading brands including Sephora, L’Oréal, Coty, PUIG, Amazon, and many others to design, engineer, manufacture, and deliver bespoke retail environments that bring their brands to life. No two projects are the same. Combining award-winning design, engineering expertise, skilled craftsmanship, and state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies, we create highly customized solutions that help the world’s leading brands stand out where it matters most
- in store. Our success is built on the way we work as One Team fostering open communication, collaboration, and a shared commitment to excellence. We strive to be Better Every Day by continuously learning, improving, and taking initiative. We also Have Fun, creating a positive, engaging workplace where people enjoy what they do and celebrate wins together. We’re looking for curious, open-minded problem-solvers who enjoy tackling complex challenges, thinking critically, and collaborating across disciplines. If you’re ready to make an impact while helping shape the future of retail, we’d love to hear from you. Who we need The Sr. Director, Total Rewards is responsible for designing, governing, and continuously improving the organization’s global compensation philosophy, benefits, job architecture, HRIS, payroll, mobility activities, and people-related integration work arising from mergers and acquisitions. Based in Canada, this role provides leadership to a small team and practical execution across regions, ensuring total rewards, HR systems, payroll, and mobility programs are market-competitive, internally equitable, legally compliant, financially sustainable, operationally effective, and aligned with the company’s culture, employee value proposition, and growth agenda. As our new Sr. Director, Total Rewards, you will handle: Global Total Rewards Strategy
- Monitor and lead a global total rewards strategy that supports business growth, talent attraction, retention, performance, and internal equity.
- Establish global rewards principles while enabling regional flexibility to reflect local market, legislative, and cultural requirements.
- Act as a trusted advisor to the CHRO, executive leaders, Finance, Legal, and regional HR teams on compensation, benefits, incentives, and rewards governance.
- Monitor external market trends, regulatory changes, pay transparency requirements, and evolving employee expectations, ensuring the team’s work under this role’s leadership keeps programs competitive and compliant.
- Provide total rewards leadership and due diligence support for mergers, acquisitions, integrations, new business development and divestitures, including assessment of compensation, benefits, payroll, HRIS, mobility, and related people‑cost implications. Compensation, Job Architecture, and Pay Equity
- Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing governance of global job architecture, job evaluation, levelling, salary structures, and pay ranges.
- Oversee annual compensation planning processes, including merit, bonus, incentive, and executive compensation support, ensuring alignment with performance, affordability, and market competitiveness.
- Build and maintain a consistent market pricing and benchmarking methodology using reputable survey data and internal analytics.
- Partner with HR and business leaders to ensure new and evolving roles are evaluated objectively and assigned appropriate levels, grades, and compensation ranges.
- Develop and apply clear compensation guidelines to support consistent, equitable, and defensible salary decisions based on job level, market data, internal equity, performance, budget affordability, and approved governance processes.
- Lead pay equity, internal equity, and pay transparency analysis and reporting, including compliance with Canadian requirements and emerging global pay transparency obligations. Benefits, Wellbeing & Perquisites
- Provide strategic oversight of benefits and wellbeing programs, ensuring offerings are competitive, compliant, cost‑effective, and aligned with workforce needs.
- Lead benefits reviews, vendor evaluations, renewal processes, employee feedback analysis, and recommendations for plan design changes.
- Design, govern, and periodically review global perquisites, allowances, and executive or role‑based programs to ensure they are market‑relevant, equitable, compliant, cost‑managed, and aligned with total rewards principles.
- Establish clear eligibility, approval, documentation, tax, payroll, and communication processes for global perquisites, partnering with Finance, Legal, Payroll, regional HR, and external advisors as needed.
- Oversee pension, retirement, and legacy benefits programs, ensuring appropriate governance, compliance, vendor management, employee communication, risk monitoring, and