Senior Manager, Rewards

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.

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.

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.

This is an existing job vacancy

• 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…