Director, Total Rewards

**Job Type**: Full Time
**Function**: Human Resources
**Address**: 160 Bloor Street East, 11th Floor, Toronto, ON
**Working Model**: Hybrid

At Sephora Canada, we’re passionate about finding and sharing beauty in the world. Our constant innovation, our ability to see and lead trends, and our focus on providing an outstanding customer experience make us the most-loved beauty community and top of mind for every Canadian. We find beauty in our communities, in our differences, our experiences, and in the spirit of our employees.

**WHAT YOU’LL DO**:
At Sephora we inspire our customers, empower people, and help them become the best versions of themselves. As a Director of Total Rewards you play a key role in that. Reporting to the VP Human Resources, Canada with a dotted line to the VP Total Rewards North America, you’ll be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the organization's total rewards programs, which include compensation, benefits, wellness initiatives, recognition programs, and other employee rewards. You’ll work with our Corporate and Store leaders to ensure we have competitive total rewards programs aligned with the North America rewards strategy to attract and retain exceptional talent in order to help us deliver on our business strategy.

**Strategic Development of Total Rewards Programs**
- Create strategies in alignment with our North America Rewards strategy to ensure competitiveness of our total rewards programs that are financially sound and legally compliant.
- Lead the design and execution of compensation and benefits programs and ensure alignment of programs with our culture and values ensuring stakeholder alignment and updates, process development, project management, execution and communications
- Partner and collaborate with North America Total Rewards leadership and team, HR Operations, HRIS, HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Legal, Payroll, Tax and Finance, to execute and administer total rewards strategy.
- Travel is required on occasion within North America and internationally for market visits and collaboration with internal and external partners.

**Compensation Program Design and Management**
- Oversee the design, implementation, and management of base and variable compensation programs, including salary structures, incentive plans, and equity programs.
- Conduct annual compensation reviews, benchmarking, and market adjustments, ensuring internal equity and external competitiveness.

**Benefits and Wellness Programs**
- In partnership with North America team, design and execute on health, welfare, retirement, and wellness programs, ensuring they are aligned with employee needs and company goals and are compliance with state and federal laws.
- Oversee administration of day-to-day benefits program and annual open enrollment cycles.
- Manage relationships with benefits vendors, brokers, and consultants to ensure effective administration and customer service. Negotiate and contract with vendors to achieve cost-effective benefits programs.
- Manage the annual benefits budgeting process in partnership with Finance and North America team.

**Compliance and Governance**
- Drive operational excellence by developing robust foundation and processes for total rewards to support a high growth organization.
- Collaborate with the HRIS team to define functionality and business rules for the total rewards systems.

**Communication and Change Management**
- Develop change management strategies for total rewards.
- Create a Compelling Communications Strategy for total rewards including education and messaging that will help our workforce understand and make the most of their total rewards.
- Drive development of educational pieces and programs around total rewards.
- Accurately counsel, communicate, and educate HR Business Partners, managers and executives on rewards decisions, policy and guideline interpretations, and job evaluations.

**People Leadership and Development**
- Lead, develop and mentor a talented total rewards team inclusive of coaching and developing the talent, culture, process, and technology. Identify needs, growth areas, and pain points.
- Build strong and collaborative relationships with the North America Total Rewards team.

**WHAT YOU’LL BRING**:

- You have previous HR leadership experience, ideally in an environment with a workforce comprised of different employee populations (retail/client-facing, distribution centers/warehouses, corporate employees).
- You have 10+ years of experience in compensation and benefits; including program development, management and execution and minimum of 5 years of experience leading teams.
- You have worked in a global company and are comfortable working in matrixed organization structure
- You have a strategic mindset but can understand the nuances of execution and account for them.
- You’re a people person who can build relationships across the business, at all levels and have a strong executive presence
- You’re a