Senior Manager, Total Rewards

About Kinaxis

About Kinaxis

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

About the team

Location

This is a remote position. You can work from home and be located anywhere in Canada.

If you are located in Ottawa, Canada you will be working a hybrid schedule of 4 days a week in office.

About the team

The Senior Manager, Total Rewards leads the design, governance, and execution of global compensation and benefits programs that enable a high-performance, growth-oriented SaaS organization.

This role is accountable for the operational management of the Total Rewards function, including global base pay structures, variable incentive plans (including sales compensation), equity programs, benefits strategy, and job architecture alignment. The Senior Manager translates business strategy, talent priorities, and market competitiveness into scalable, compliant, and data-driven reward solutions across jurisdictions.

The role is accountable for functional outcomes, program governance, and the effective delivery of global Total Rewards operations.

About the role

Vacancy Status

This is an existing job vacancy

What you will do

• Lead the design and governance of global compensation frameworks, ensuring market‑competitive and scalable pay practices across the organization
• Oversee global annual compensation planning cycles (merit, promotion, bonus, equity). Design and govern corporate incentive plans and global sales compensation programs.
• Oversee equity-based reward programs, ensuring governance and compliance
• Drive the institutionalization of job architecture (job families, roles, and levels) and embed it into systems, processes, and decision-making.
• Ensure compensation programs comply with applicable statutory, regulatory, and governance requirements, including pay‑equity analysis and reporting and pay transparency.
• Assist with executive and board compensation analysis, benchmarking, and governance processes in partnership with Finance and Legal.
• Provide leadership and direction on global benefits design and administration.
• Ensure benefit offerings are competitive, cost-effective, and compliant across multiple countries.
• Oversee vendor strategy, renewals, and performance management
• Evaluate program effectiveness through data and analytics and drive continuous improvement.
• Partner with Finance and SLT to help standardize various incentive plans and structures, measures, and governance processes including workforce cost planning and incentive modeling.
• Partner with Sales Leadership, Sales Operations and Finance to support the design and governance of sales incentive programs.
• Provide scenario modeling and analytics to inform business decisions
• Support global expansion and organizational scaling from a total rewards perspective.
• Establish and maintain Total Rewards policies, controls, and operational standards, ensuring regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and effective risk management across compensation, equity, and benefits programs.
• Partner with HR Technology to identify automation opportunities, reduce manual work, and enhance the manager and employee experience.
• Lead, develop, and performance manage a team of Total Rewards professionals, setting functional objectives, building capability, and ensuring high-quality execution across global programs.

What we are looking for

• University degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, Economics or related
• 7-10+ years of progressive experience in global Total Rewards including experience leading senior-level professionals and/or managers.
• Demonstrated expertise in global compensation benchmarking, sales compensation plan design, equity program governance and executive and board compensation, multi-country benefits strategy, compensation analytics and workforce cost modeling. (technology/SAAS sector preferred)
• Strong financial and business acumen including advanced understanding of Total Rewards strategy in recurring revenue business models
• Ability to operate effectively in complex, multi-jurisdictional environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and influencing skills.
• Ability to communicate complex rewards topics clearly at all levels including Executive-level communication.
• High level of discretion in handling confidential compensation information.
• Experience with SAP SuccessFactors or similar global cloud HCM preferred

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Why join Kinaxis?

Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day, when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to a long-term net-zero operations strategy. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the third Friday of every month)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well-being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs, training, and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons

For more information, visit the Kinaxis website at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com.

Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates, including those with specific needs or disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. Please note that this contact information is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used to inquire about application statuses.

Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description to identify candidates whose education, experience, and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.