Manager of Total Compensation

ABOUT US

The City of Spruce Grove is a fast growing, dynamic city committed to building and maintaining a fiscally responsible community that serves our residents, attracts visitors, and promotes future growth.
The “Values, We Live By” are accountability, communication, leadership, integrity, and respect while we work towards maintaining a work/play balance.
We are an organization that cares, an organization that is committed to our city and committed to you. The City of Spruce Grove is committed to public service, where everyone feels empowered to contribute their best work. We believe that by working together in a spirit of collaboration and respect, we can achieve great things.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Manager of Total Compensation will provide leadership, integrated advice and support in the development, implementation, and administration of job evaluation and compensation programs for employees across the City.

The incumbent will evaluate organizational needs, market trends, and develop and supervise responsive internal programs including payroll, classification, benefits and related policy development, methods, systems, approaches, and external comparisons including salary surveys, compensation reviews, and benefit reviews.
You will report to the Director of Human Resources and actively participate in all strategic compensation planning of the City.
Salary Range: $102,083.80 - $121,357.60

RESPONSIBILITIES

Compensation Administration
- Oversee the accurate and efficient processing of payroll for all staff (union, non-union, permanent, temporary and casuals/seasonals) in accordance with all legislation (Employment Standards, Human Rights, Canada Revenue, WCB, OH &S, etc.)
- Provide integrated advice and guidance to internal clients through their Human Resources Business Partners, on day-to-day compensation related issues, strategic compensation management, organization and job design, individual compensation/classification concerns, and associated human resources issues.
- Provide advice and guidance to Human Resources Business Partners regarding client requests for job classifications.
- Assist Human Resources Business Partners and other team members in the administration of the job classification/reclassification process.
- Oversee and provide quality control of the process for both existing and newly created positions, performing and/or directly supervising reviews and job audits.
- Oversee the maintenance and integrity of compensation data and Job Descriptions; consult with Business Systems Analyst on Position Management Database to ensure data integrity and make recommendations for system enhancements.
- Provide information on comparator organizations for compensation surveys and related information requests.

Benefits Administration
- Ensure overall procedural aspects of benefit enrollment, termination and changes in accordance with our benefit contracts, policies, collective agreements, pension plan rules and the Alberta Employment Standards as it relates to leaves.
- Act as the primary point of contact for escalated benefit inquiries.
- Identify City benefits issues from both the employer and benefit carrier perspective and recommend solutions.
- Understand and support the implementation of processes and materials required due to changes to legislation, benefit-provider contracts, handbooks, or collective agreements, or similar, as directed.
- Provide information and education to City employees about the value of their benefits programs as one important aspect of the total compensation package.
- Monitor relevancy and accuracy of educational material and provides suggestions.

Policy, Procedure and Strategic Management
- Provide interpretation of the City’s compensation and benefits related policies and procedures.
- Provide recommendations to compensation and benefits related issues in compliance with the City’s policies and procedures, and related wage regulations.
- Develop and implement new compensation plans, revision of policies, standards, procedures, and the design of job description formats.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the City’s compensation practices through internal and external research of performance benchmarks and critical indicators such as turnover statistics, recruitment success studies, equity studies, and salary range variance analysis.
- Review the City’s Compensation Policy on a regular basis to assess internal equity and competitiveness within the marketplace; develop strategies and recommends adjustments as necessary to support the City’s strategic plan and objectives.

Client Relations and Supervision
- Oversee and supervise the Payroll team including performance management and workload management.
- Implement and update development plans for the payroll team.
- Lead the planning, coordination, facilitation, administration, and reporting of the compensation and benefits review program.
- Plan, develop, and coordinate implementation of job structures an