Sr Benefits and Retirement Specialist

TJX Canada

At TJX Canada, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You'll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you're working in our Distribution Centers, Corporate Offices, or Retail Stores-WINNERS, HomeSense, and Marshalls, you'll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family-a Fortune 100 company and the world's leading off-price retailer. Here at TJX Canada, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to the inclusion and accommodation of all individuals.

Job Description:

We're looking for a Senior Benefits & Retirement Specialist to lead the design, governance, and administration of programs that support the well-being and financial security of our Associates. In this role, you'll optimize plan performance and deliver meaningful engagement across retail, distribution, and office teams. You'll partner with vendors, analyze data, manage process improvements and projects to bring operational excellence to our benefits and retirement offerings-helping over 40,000 Associates make informed choices for their future.

• We value integrity, respect, and teamwork, encouraging a unique and inclusive culture.
• Immediate access to our Group Benefits package, including a Health Care Spending Account, Associate & Family Assistance Program, and various well-being resources
• Management Incentive Plan along with a robust Retirement Savings Program
• A competitive vacation package, paired with a Vacation Trade Program that allows you to opt in for an extra week.
• Enjoy Associate discounts at our stores, available to you and eligible family members.
• Comprehensive training and development resources to help you learn, grow, and succeed.
• Exciting career paths with growth opportunities and tuition reimbursement to support your career progression.
• Discover innovative amenities at our eco-friendly corporate office, along with the flexibility and balance of our hybrid work model.

• Align benefits and retirement programs with organizational goals and communication objectives.
• Conduct benchmarking and provide analysis with actionable recommendations.
• Advise on plan design, governance, and regulatory compliance.
• Develop and deliver educational materials on benefits and retirement options; facilitates workshops, presentations, and related engagement activities.
• Act as primary liaison with providers to ensure strategic and organized project execution.
• Oversee audits, reporting, and ensure accuracy of contributions and deductions.
• Supports leadership with dashboards and reports for informed decision-making.
• Defines objectives, scope, milestones, and timelines for projects.
• Coordinates annual processes such as Open Enrollment, Renewals, Overage Dependent Campaigns, Vacation Trade, Bonus Allocation and union negotiations.

• A minimum of five (5) years of professional experience in Benefits and Retirement.
• Post-secondary education; the CEBS designation is considered an asset.
• Solid group benefits and retirement program design and or administration knowledge, including the ability to interpret and apply policies, procedures; monitoring and implementing program changes.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and collaboration skills - able to build relationships at all levels and across markets; effectively communicating and working across multiple teams and levels within the organization.
• Excellent data collection skills including needs assessment, analysis of information (e.g. description of problems, qualitative data collection and analysis etc.); able to analyze and interpret data sets using statistics and report synthesis to convey meaningful trends and insights
• Strong self-management skills (establishing priorities, effective time management).
• Project support skills including maintaining detailed plans for projects, understanding and applying principles of project control; the ability to organize and track program delivery progress across multiple initiatives
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including strong Microsoft Excel skills; experience with Adobe software products is considered an asset.