Senior Specialist/Assistant Manager, Human Resource (Total Rewards)

Summary

Job Description

Total Rewards & Mobility Operations

• Coordinate and submit data for compensation surveys; perform market benchmarking and best practice research to support Total Rewards strategies.

• Support annual performance calibration and compensation cycles, including salary and bonus reviews.

• Provide salary recommendations for new hires, ensuring internal equity and external competitiveness through collaboration with TA and HRBPs

• Ensure Total Rewards policies are clearly documented, governed and effectively communicated to employee groups.

• Drive employee communications and engagement efforts for Total Rewards initiatives and programs.

• Collaborate with IT, Payroll, and HR teams to ensure accurate and timely delivery of rewards in accordance with approved compensation structures.

• Support HR audits and risk management activities as required.

Rewards Partnering, Policy Review & Analytics

• Translate business needs into actionable analytical insights to drive Total Rewards design and decisions using both qualitative and quantitative data.

• Design and maintain scalable analytical models to support compensation planning, workforce cost forecasting, and policy simulations.

• Develop and maintain interactive compensation dashboards in Tableau, leveraging data leveraging data directly from enterprise data warehouse environments to enable near real-time insights for stakeholders.

• Build models and tools to support data-driven Total Rewards decisions and policy proposals.

• Conduct regular policy effectiveness reviews and impact analysis (e.g., crew variable pay, payroll data trends).

• Respond to market trends, regulatory updates, and business needs with relevant and business-centric Total Rewards solutions.

• Conduct job evaluations using the Mercer IPE methodology to ensure accurate job sizing, internal alignment, and governance of grading structures.

Project Management & Operational Excellence

• Drive or support Total Rewards process automation and digitalisation initiatives to enhance efficiency, data integrity, and reporting accuracy.

• Participate in HR OKR-driven cross-functional teams (CFTs) to contribute to enterprise HR objectives.

• Support ad hoc projects and other duties as assigned.

• Foster team development through active knowledge sharing and best practices.

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members where applicable.

Industrial Relations Support

• Prepare data-driven reports, presentations and analysis for internal stakeholders and union partners.

• Support modelling and data analysis for Collective Agreement (CA) renewals and union negotiations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Actuarial Science, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline.

• Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in Total Rewards, Compensation, Workforce Analytics, or related analytical HR roles.

• Experience in building and maintaining automated Tableau dashboards connected to enterprise data sources, with working knowledge of data querying or programming languages for data extraction and transformation.

• Strong analytical and modelling capability, with experience performing cost simulations, pay modelling, and policy impact analysis.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate complex data into clear, business-centric insights.

• High level of attention to detail, data integrity, and governance awareness.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.