Director, Compensation
Requisition ID: 190901
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: RH rémunération
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Québec
City: Montréal-Nord
Location: Bureau de Montréal-Nord
Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.
Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
Ready to Make an impact?
We’re looking for a Compensation Director who is highly analytical and process oriented that builds meaningful cross-functional partnerships and fosters a high-performance, inclusive workplace. In this role, you'll manage a team of compensation specialists and will own the national compensation programs across our retail and distribution operations.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
- Support the development and delivery of analytical data, benchmarking, research, and compensation modeling for base salary programs.
- Provide ongoing market insights and pay trend reporting to inform compensation decisions.
- Support the end-to-end process and optimize user experience for the annual salary review and incentive cycle.
- Drive standardized policies and practices for base salary administration across retail and operational teams in alignment with internal compensation philosophy and regulatory requirements.
- Partner with HR Business Partners to advise on salary management practices and resolve compensation-related challenges.
- Oversee pay equity governance for Ontario and Quebec and ensure compliance through deployment of the Pay Equity Toolkit to corporate stores and franchisees.
- Serve as a compensation subject matter expert to HR Business Partners and operational leadership.
- Own, Transform and drive the wage scale and minimum wage strategy while implementing annual wage scale updates.
- Participate in the evolution and streamlining of compensation processes, tools, and systems.
- Work closely with the Labour Relations Team to support consistency with CBA and Non-CBA Retail and Distribution Pay Scales
- Lead and develop a team of compensation professionals, fostering growth, accountability, and collaboration
What you have to offer:
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Labour Relations or a related field, CCP or HR designation is an asset
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive HR experience, with at least 3–5 years in a senior or strategic Compensation leadership role
- Strong working knowledge of compensation practices, pay equity and employment law
- Solid team leadership experience with a proven ability to coach and mentor direct reports
- Demonstrated ability to coach and influence leaders and HR Professionals, foster engagement, and support cross-functional collaboration
- Experience developing and executing salary and wage scale strategies
- Proficient to advance knowledge of analytical methodologies
- Flexibility to travel as needed based on business requirements
- Knowledge of English is required, as the candidate will be expected to work closely with peers in other provinces in planning, developing and implementing processes and participating in key national strategic projects. The incumbent will also have to supervise members of her team who are based in provinces other than Québec.
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At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.
We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.
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We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.
Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:
- Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
- A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
- Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
- Parental leave top-up
- Paid Vacation and Days-off
We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.