Senior Compensation Strategist

wolseley; New Jersey; On-site; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Wolseley Canada is seeking a Lead Compensation Analyst to act as the compensation SME for the Canadian business. You will drive base pay, incentives, salary structures, market benchmarking, and pay equity, partnering with HR, Finance, and leaders.

You’ll play a hands-on role in Workday migration, data cleanup, mapping, and validation, contributing to annual compensation planning and governance across Canada.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Finance, Economics, or related field.
• 6+ years of progressive compensation experience.
• Strong experience with salary structures, benchmarking, job evaluation, and annual cycles.
• Multi-province Canadian compensation experience.
• Knowledge of Canadian pay equity and pay transparency requirements.
• Advanced Workday Compensation and reporting experience.
• HRIS implementation or Workday migration experience preferred.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills.
• Strong compensation data analysis, reconciliation and data-cleanup experience.
• Ability to work independently from issue to resolution.
• CCP designation, or progress toward CCP, strongly preferred.
• CHRL/CPHR is an asset.
• Strong consulting, communication, and influencing skills for senior stakeholders.
• Distribution, industrial or retail experience is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Lead the compensation workstream for Workday migration from Wolseley Canada to Ferguson US tenant.
• Build and maintain Canadian salary ranges, grades and market differentials.
• Evaluate roles, maintain job families and support organizational changes.
• Execute annual merit, salary review and incentive planning cycles.
• Model and govern short-term incentive plans; liaison to Finance on sales comp.
• Provide evidence-based offers, promotions and market adjustments.
• Lead pay equity reviews and monitor pay transparency obligations.
• Build dashboards on compa-ratio, range penetration and internal equity.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Workday Compensation

Data analysis

Financial modelling

HRIS implementation

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR / Business / Finance / Economics

Tools

Workday

Excel

HRIS

Job description

Wolseley Canada is seeking a Lead Compensation Analyst to act as the compensation SME for the Canadian business. You will drive base pay, incentives, salary structures, market benchmarking, and pay equity, partnering with HR, Finance, and leaders.

You’ll play a hands-on role in Workday migration, data cleanup, mapping, and validation, contributing to annual compensation planning and governance across Canada.