Total Rewards Partner

Who We Are:
At Giant Tiger, our mission is simple: help Canadians save more every day. We're a Canadian institution rooted in our communities and built on 60+ years of success. As part of our store support team, your work directly impacts stores across the country and drives the value that our customers see on the shelves.

We're looking for people who are passionate about retail and motivated by meaningful work that makes a real impact. This posting represents a current, contract opportunity at Giant Tiger.

Job Title

Total Rewards Partner

Contract End Date

2027-06-25

About This Role:

Workplace Arrangements:
This is a fully remote role! The incumbent may be asked to come onsite to our Ottawa, Ontario Home Office quarterly for team gatherings.

This role is a full-time, temporary role with a contract end date of June 25, 2027.


What You'll Be Doing:

  • Compensation Program Administration: Collaborate on the annual GTW (Giant Tiger Warehouse) compensation cycle, annual O/M increases, and store bonus, operating with minimal oversight while identifying efficiencies and ensuring data integrity with minimal errors. Loading one-time payments, as necessary.

  • Minimum Wage: Prepare, process, and forecast minimum wage increases for Stores, ensuring Giant Tiger is compliant with all provincial minimum wage requirements.

  • Workday: As the Total Rewards Workday SME, translate business needs into operational/technical requirements, while leading all compensation Workday configuration testing and troubleshooting issues as necessary.

  • Job Evaluation: Conduct job evaluations to ensure roles are appropriately classified, benchmarked, and aligned with organizational structures and market standards.

  • Compensation Partnership: Partner with Talent Acquisition to provide compensation recommendations for preferred candidates, ensuring alignment with internal pay equity, competitiveness with external market data, and responsiveness to candidate expectations while maintaining organizational fairness and consistency.

  • Data Integrity and Audit Readiness: Ensures accuracy and integrity of total rewards data through regular audits and analysis, identifying discrepancies, and maintaining controls to demonstrate compliance during internal audits.

  • Recognition: Provide oversight and subject matter expertise for employee recognition by monitoring spend, promoting consistent recognition practices, and equipping leaders with accessible tools to make recognition meaningful and easy to deliver.

  • Training Development: Create comprehensive compensation training resources to enhance business understanding and capability in total rewards programs.

What You'll Bring:

  • Completion of post-secondary education in Business or HR.

  • 3-5 years of compensation, and/or recognition experience.

  • 2+ years of experience using Workday (loading EIBs, testing configuration changes, auditing data accuracy, etc.)

  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, with a high level of attention to detail and maintain confidential information.

  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple competing priorities.

  • Intermediate knowledge of provincial legislation Canada-wide, in particular, pay equity and pay transparency.

  • Excellent analytical skills with the ability to distill large quantities of data into a meaningful format.

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

  • Intermediate Excel skills (i.e. vlookups, pivots, etc)

Assets You May Have:

  • Bilingual FR/EN

Join Giant Tiger and gain meaningful work experience in a fun, community-focused environment. Our temporary opportunities offer competitive pay and a chance to learn and grow with a proudly Canadian retailer.

Salary

$66,000.00 - $99,000.00

What Giant Tiger Offers:
Competitive Compensation: The salary range for this position is listed above. Giant Tiger will consider factors such as experience, skills and internal equity to ensure you are paid competitively.


Career Growth: Giant Tiger is committed to developing our people. We promote from within, and many of our leaders started right here. We provide the coaching, training, and support you need to build a long-term career. If you're looking for a place to grow and take on new challenges, you've found it.

Extra Giant Tiger Perks:
Store Discount,
Recognition program that celebrates great work with monetary rewards and other perks,
Safety first environment.

Location

2480 Walkley Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 6A9

Job Requisition

JR132595

Giant Tiger is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fair employment practices.

Giant Tiger will provide support and accommodation in its recruitment processes to all applicants. If you are invited to participate in an interview and have accommodation needs, please contact careers@gianttiger.com.

Giant Tiger does not sponsor work permits. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada and maintain authorization for the duration of employment.

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