WHO WE ARE

London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is a world-class academic health sciences centre located in the southwestern Ontario city of London. Just two hours from Toronto and two hours from Detroit, London features a beautiful and walkable downtown core located on the Thames River, a vibrant culinary scene and scores of activities that highlight local arts, culture and music. As one of Canada’s largest acute-care teaching hospitals, LHSC delivers world-class care and experiences, built on our commitment to excellence in research, innovation, and learning. In partnership with our communities, we design and advance healthcare to support the wellness of the populations we serve. LHSC delivers both local and regional services, including the Children’s Hospital, within a large geographic area. LHSC is known for its great people and great care, with a workforce of close to 15,000, dedicated to delivering the highest quality patient care while partnering with communities to transform health, one life at a time.
Human Resources Services is dedicated to enhancing HR systems and partnering with leaders to create HR analytics to efficiently manage operations. We administer the compensation plans to ensure LHSC remains equitable and competitive in the market, ensure payroll is processed effectively and accurately.

JOB SUMMARY

Reporting to the Director, HR Services, the Manager, Compensation, Benefits & Go2HR directs, controls and evaluates the delivery of department services. They are responsible for translating decisions of the program leadership into execution, by utilizing relationship management and working with internal and external partners to achieve the necessary outcomes. The Manager ensures their team and department operations are aligned with our mission, vision and values, while working together to successfully achieve our strategic objectives.
The Manager is accountable for the operations and activities of the Compensation, Benefits and Go2HR teams. The Manager will provide counsel related to supporting employee inquiries, compensation and benefits programs, policies, processes, strategies, and related legislation and labour market trends.
The Manager supports the design, development, execution, and maintenance of compensation strategies, policies, principles, and programs in alignment with the hospital strategic plan. The role oversees base pay planning and administration, job evaluation, pay equity, market pricing/benchmarking, and other cash compensation programs in compliance with all relevant legislation (ex. Equal Pay Act, Ontario Pay Equity Act, Employment Standards Act).
The Manager is accountable for the implementation and administration of the benefits programs ensuring strategic objectives are met and plans are in compliance with applicable legislation. The role is responsible for managing group health, life and dental insurance programs, with a focus on designing and managing the corporate employee benefits programs. The role balances internal equity and external competitiveness to support the hospital’s ability to attract, retain, motivate, and engage employees through fair and equitable compensation and benefit program offerings.
The Manager is also accountable to ensure employees receive accurate and timely information throughout their employment journey, including transfers, leaves of absence, resignations, and retirements. The role ensures the team has efficient systems in place to maintain employee data while conducting audits and rectifying discrepancies within the HR information system to maintain accurate and current records.
This role is accountable for day-to-day department activities, including the management of human and material resources, day-to-day staffing and scheduling, development and support of a healthy workplace, risk and utilization measurements, and facilitation of improvement initiatives and change management, while operating within approved operational budgets and financial guidelines and controls. A major focus of the role is fostering effective working relationships and networks within the team/unit and with other teams across the organization.
LHSC is committed to the principles of hybrid work and may offer this option to employees whose work can be performed in an alternate location, without adverse impact to the operations of the Hospital, inclusive of our Staff and Patient experience. Confirmation of hybrid work options available to you will be clarified upon hire and may be subject to change based on the duties required of your position. Successful candidates will be required to perform work within Ontario and must be available to work on location, as required.

WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDED

• Knowledge of Collective Agreements, and scheduling processes
• Business skills to understand how compensation and benefit plans affect an organization’s finances
• Knowledge of Employment Legislation, HR policies and practices and employee rights and obligations
• Strong knowledge of compensation best practice, job evaluation, pay equity, market pricing, salary planning, base pay administration
• Ability to build complex compensation models and articulate it in a simple and clear manner
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with an ability to build trusted business relationships with both internal and external contacts
• Understanding of data analytics and reporting
• Knowledge of all hospital benefits, insurance carriers preferred
• Planning and executing action plans that deliver results and motivate individuals for greater performance excellence
• Strong business acumen
• Values-based leadership and a proven track record for developing and sustaining healthy work environments and effective teams while leading in a performance-driven culture
• Lead and drive system transformation
• Develop self and others through teaching, coaching, mentoring and formal development processes
• Strong analytical skills that contribute to effective problem solving and decision-making

IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS:

Before beginning employment at LHSC, all new hires must provide documentation related to LHSC’s Health Review Requirements. For more information and a detailed list of requirements, please visit Health Review Requirements | LHSC.
Your interest in this opportunity is appreciated. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Successful candidates, as a condition of job offer, would be required to complete a satisfactory police information check (original document) completed in the last 6 months

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