Director,Rewards Job Toronto Ontario Canada,HR/Recruitment

Position: Director, Total Rewards

Company Description

Indigo is a physical and digital place inspired by and filled with books, ideas, beautifully designed lifestyle products, and the creative people who help make it all happen. We believe in real books, living life fully and generously, being kind to each other and to the environment, and that stories — big and little — connect us. Indigo is our customer's happy place — for joyful moments of discovery and to connect with people who share their passion for reading, their belief in ideas, and their commitment to making the world a better and more beautiful place.

OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Our Mission is to inspire reading and enrich the lives of booklovers. As such, we believe in the power of people and their stories. We aim to attract top talent, nurture the potential of our employees, and create space for everyone to thrive. Our Guiding Principles are the few key ideas that are meant to influence everything we do, every day.

We Will Hire, Inspire, Promote and Retain the Best – A’s Hire A’s

We Will be Totally Customer Centric

We Will Be Data Driven – System Thinking – Entrepreneurial

We are Committed to True and Shared Value Creation

We Will be Human-Centered and AI Enabled

We are Committed to Caring About Each Other, Our Communities, Our Environment

Job Description

The Director, Total Rewards & HR Technology is responsible for defining and implementing Indigo's total rewards philosophy, roadmap and execution strategy—ensuring the organization attracts, retains and motivates talent through market-competitive, financially sustainable and employee-centric reward programs.

This role ensures the effectiveness, scalability and integration of all total rewards and HR technology programs, including compensation, benefits, wellness, absence management and workforce analytics across Home Office, Retail and Distribution Centre teams.

The Director will be a key driver of Indigo's evolution into a high-performance, growth-oriented organization by providing the rewards infrastructure, workforce insights and technology capabilities required to support business performance, employee engagement and organizational effectiveness.

KEY PERFORMANCE METRICS

· On-time, on-budget delivery of key Total Rewards

Effectiveness and competitiveness of compensation, benefits and wellness programs

Improvement in absence management outcomes and employee experience

Customer satisfaction score of the Total Rewards

Team engagement score

Workforce data integrity and reporting effectiveness

Compliance with pay equity, pay transparency and legislative requirements

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Participates as a senior HR leader in shaping Indigo's people strategy, ensuring total rewards and HR technology directly support business performance, talent attraction, engagement and retention.

Defines and continuously evolves Indigo's total rewards philosophy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, employee needs and market competitiveness.

Develops and delivers a multi-year Total Rewards roadmap with clear annual priorities covering compensation, benefits, wellness, absence management, workforce analytics and HR systems optimization.

Builds and leads a high-performing Total Rewards team, setting clear standards for delivery, accountability and impact.

Establishes clear success measures and uses analytics, workforce data and market intelligence to assess effectiveness, inform decisions and continuously improve outcomes.

Acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on compensation, rewards strategy, workforce analytics, organizational design implications and people-related risk.

Maintains strong external awareness of emerging trends in rewards, HR technology and workforce planning, ensuring Indigo remains competitive and forward-looking.

Partners with HR and business leaders to identify workforce risks, retention challenges and future talent needs.

Aligns rewards, wellness and HR technology priorities to business strategy and workforce plans.

Contributes to annual planning, budgeting and prioritization across the people portfolio.

Leads change and adoption efforts when reward programs or workforce policies are introduced or updated.

Provides enterprise-wide…

Director, Rewards