Bilingual Total Rewards Manager (French and English Required)
Location: Toronto, Ontario (Etobicoke)
Work Model: Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office
Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Employment: Full-time
Salary: $130,000 to $140,000 annually, plus a performance-based bonus with a 20% target and a maximum opportunity of 40% of base salary
Languages: English and intermediate conversational French required
Work Eligibility: Legally entitled to work in Canada.
Introduction
Are you ready to make a meaningful impact on how an organization rewards, supports, and retains its people? Our client, an established organization in the industrial sector, is seeking a Bilingual Total Rewards Manager to lead compensation, pension, benefits, and employee well-being initiatives.
This is an opportunity to influence rewards strategy, partner with senior leadership, and guide a dedicated team while helping shape programs that support employees across a multi-site organization.
Why You'll Want This Role
- Take ownership of a broad total rewards portfolio with opportunities to influence compensation, benefits, pension, and well-being strategies.
- Work closely with senior leaders and contribute to decisions affecting employees throughout the organization.
- Lead and develop a team of 3 to 4 professionals while collaborating with Human Resources and Finance partners.
- Contribute to executive compensation, incentive programs, and initiatives that support employee engagement and retention.
- Enjoy three weeks of vacation, pension and group benefits, and a hybrid working arrangement.
What You'll Do
You will lead the development, implementation, and ongoing improvement of total rewards and well-being programs. Working with senior stakeholders, you will help ensure compensation and benefit offerings remain competitive, sustainable, compliant, and aligned with organizational priorities.
Your role combines strategic planning, hands-on program management, financial analysis, and team leadership. You will have the opportunity to influence important decisions while strengthening the employee experience.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement total rewards and employee well-being strategies in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
- Maintain compensation structures that support talent attraction, retention, and performance management.
- Manage variable compensation programs, including short-term incentives, operational bonuses, and commission program oversight.
- Oversee executive compensation programs, including long-term incentives and share ownership arrangements.
- Manage group benefits, pension programs, external providers, and professional advisors.
- Ensure compliance with applicable Canadian pension, benefits, and compensation regulations, including timely regulatory filings.
- Oversee disability management programs and recommend preventative and corrective initiatives.
- Analyze compensation and benefits trends, prepare reports, and provide recommendations to senior leadership.
- Develop tools and communications that help employees and stakeholders understand total rewards programs.
- Lead, coach, and support a team of 3 to 4 professionals.
- Contribute to departmental budget planning, monitoring, and reconciliation.
Qualifications
Required:
- At least 3 years of management experience, including leadership of employees or teams.
- Professional experience in at least two of the following areas: compensation, pensions, employee benefits, and disability management and well-being.
- Experience managing compensation or total rewards programs within a multi-site organization.
- University degree and a CHRP or CEBS designation.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex financial information, pension documents, and benefit agreements.
- Knowledge of applicable Canadian pension, benefits, and compensation legislation and regulatory requirements.
- Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion when working with sensitive compensation and employee information.
- Strong English communication skills and intermediate conversational French skills to communicate with French-speaking colleagues and stakeholders.
- Legally entitled to work in Canada.
Assets:
- Experience supporting executive compensation or long-term incentive programs.
- Experience collaborating with senior executives, external consultants, insurers, auditors, or actuaries.
- Knowledge of change management principles and experience communicating complex programs to diverse employee groups.
Benefits
- Three weeks of vacation.
- Pension program.
- Group benefits.
- Performance-based bonus opportunity.
Why Work with Us
At Bilingual Source, we connect talented bilingual professionals with opportunities where their expertise can make a difference. This position offers the chance to combine your leadership abilities, analytical strengths, and total rewards knowledge in a role with meaningful organizational impact.
If you enjoy developing people, improving programs, and influencing decisions that support employees, we encourage you to apply.
Bilingual Source uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assist in screening and assessing applicants for this position. This technology helps us match your unique language skills and professional experience with the specific needs of our clients. Final hiring and interview decisions continue to be made by our human recruitment experts.
This is an existing vacancy. Our client is currently seeking a Bilingual Total Rewards Manager.
