lululemon Compensation Program Lead

lululemon; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 88,000 - 115,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health benefits

Paid time off

Retirement plan matching

Employee discount

Fitness & yoga classes

Job summary

lululemon is seeking a Compensation & Job Architecture Lead to evolve our global job architecture framework. The role partners with Workforce Planning, Legal, and P&C to enable growth and ensure governance across compensation processes.

You will educate stakeholders, manage job profiles, and drive self-service governance while maintaining accuracy and confidentiality. Hybrid work with onsite collaboration four days a week.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of compensation experience in a multinational environment.
• Experience implementing and evolving enterprise-wide frameworks, especially job architecture.
• Ability to translate complex people data into actionable insights for leaders.

Responsibilities

• Execute and evolve the global job architecture strategy to support business needs.
• Govern and deliver Job Architecture frameworks for various people lifecycle activities.
• Collaborate with Workforce Planning, Business Partners, Legal, and Learning teams to operationalize the framework.
• Maintain day-to-day upkeep of the job architecture framework and document processes.
• Develop education and training materials to enable self-service governance of job architecture.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Stakeholder collaboration

Analytical insights

HR process improvement

Education

Post-secondary degree in HR or related field

Tools

Workday

Avature

Dayforce

Job description

Description & Requirements

who we are

lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional design, we create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. We owe our success to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we're in. As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future. In particular, that includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people.

about this team

As part of the Compensation team and reporting to the Manager, Compensation, this role is a unique opportunity to shape foundational compensation programs at lululemon. This role is responsible for leading our job architecture program of work and is a key player in supporting to creating efficiencies between this body of work and our job evaluation processes and supporting our compensation partners and the broader P&C teams to enable the future growth of our business.

core responsibilities

The main focus of the role is on Job Architecture program evolution - the incumbent in the role will continue to refine our framework to support our business and create a seamless people experience whilst evolving the framework to support business needs. This role will also support future compensation related projects and programs as required to support the evolving needs of our business.

• Execute the evolution of lululemon's global job architecture strategy, ensuring it is able to be flexible and scale with the changing requirements of our business, supports workforce planning, enables career progression, and provides a strong foundation for compensation, talent, and organizational design decisions.
• Leading the governance and delivery of our Job Architecture frameworks, as a critical foundation for a wide range of people lifecycle activities.
• Partnering with cross functional teams such as Workforce planning, Business Partners, Operational P&C teams, Employment Compliance and Legal and Learning & Leadership in operationalising our job architecture framework and helping them solve their challenges through our framework.
• Manage the day-to-day upkeep of our job architecture framework i.e. job architecture queries, internal resource documentation, creation of new job families and job profiles as required.
• Upskill and support in education and training materials and delivery with the business/ broader P&C business stakeholders to evolve our job evaluation framework into a fully self-service model whilst ensuring governance and rigour is brought to our Job Architecture practices.
• Be part of the evolution and change management of how lululemon can utilize job architecture to further support our broader P&C teams and business.
• Be a key player in the evolution of our job evaluation processes, creating efficiencies between the two programs through resource creation, managing job evaluation requests, process mapping and workflow optimisation.
• Lead/support future compensation programs and projects as needed.

qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in compensation, ideally in a multinational environment.
• Experience in implementing and evolving enterprise-wide frameworks (experience with managing a job architecture framework is highly desirable).
• Ability to translate complex people and organizational data into actionable insights and recommendations for business leaders.
• Exposure to HRIS systems (Workday ideal) back-end with a curiosity on how the back-end data comes together and integrates into other systems e.g. Avature, Dayforce.
• Detail-oriented and committed to a high degree of accuracy.
• Advanced Excel and highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to perform multiple tasks and prioritize workload.
• Experience in providing consultation to managers, people professionals, employees, and/or business partners. Experience in a consultancy is a plus.
• Highly ethical and able to deal with confidential issues with tact, discretion & confidentiality.
• Post-secondary degree in a related field. (e.g. HR)

must haves

• Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life.
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results.
• Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same.
• Lead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn't take yourself too seriously.

additional notes

Authorization to work in Canada is required for this role.

compensation and benefits package

lululemon's compensation offerings are grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and teamperformance. Thetypical hiring range for this position is from $88,000-$115,800 annually; the base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity. As part of our total rewards offering, permanent employees in this position may be eligible for our competitive annual bonus program, subject to program eligibility requirements.

At lululemon, investing in our people is a top priority. We believe that when life works, work works. We strive to be the place where inclusive leaders come to develop and enable all to be well. Recognizing our teams for their performance and dedication, other components of our total rewards offerings include support of career development, wellbeing, and personal growth:

• Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
• Paid time off
• Savings and retirement plan matching
• Generous employee discount
• Fitness & yoga classes
• Parenthood top-up
• Extensive catalog of development course offerings
• People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)

Note: The incentive programs, benefits, and perks have certain eligibility requirements. The Company reserves the right to alter these incentive programs, benefits, and perks in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

workplace arrangement

Hybrid

In-person collaboration and connection is important to our culture. Work is performed onsite, minimum 4 days per week.

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