Sr. Manager, People Systems & Analytics

Overview

Trimac isn't just a transportation company; it's an industry disruptor with a remarkable 80-year legacy of safely delivering products that improve people’s lives across North America. 

Our workplace culture is centered on being safe, respectful, innovative and inclusive. We are committed to maintaining a rewarding work environment that allows employees to experience new opportunities and build their chosen careers. Across the company, we encourage open communication, champion integrity, celebrate individuality and cultivate diverse talents and perspectives. If you’re ready for a challenge that will help drive forward an industry leading team, we invite you to begin your journey with us.

Job Details

The Senior Manager, People Systems & Analytics is a strategic, process focused leader responsible for stewarding the organization’s employee data ecosystem and transforming it into actionable insights that shape workforce decisions. This role leads a multidisciplinary team of people systems specialists, analysts, and senior coordinators who manage employee onboarding, internal movement, and lifecycle changes across North America.

Beyond operational excellence, this leader will lead a team that modernizes people systems, establish strong data governance, and build processes that produce advanced analytics capabilities that enable workforce planning, labor cost optimization, compliance, and executive decision-making. The role is a key connector between People & Culture, Finance, Operations, and IT, ensuring people data is trusted, scalable, and positioned to support the organization’s future growth.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of employee data across the full employee lifecycle, including hires, internal movements, role changes, and exits.
• Provide strategic oversight of the HRIS ecosystem (and integrated tools), including data architecture, security, access controls, and audit readiness.
• Establish and maintain a robust position management and position control framework that supports organizational design and cost management.
• Lead vendor relationships and partner with IT on integrations, upgrades, releases, and roadmap planning.
• Ensure compliance with employment, privacy, payroll, DOT, and government regulations across Canada and the U.S.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of analysts, systems specialists, and senior coordinators.
• Define clear operating rhythms, service standards, and career pathways to support scalability and succession planning.
• Establish a trusted source of people data and reporting for leaders across the organization.
• Deliver standardized dashboards and executive-ready insights on workforce trends, labor costs, headcount, turnover, compliance, and productivity.
• Identify risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities through data analysis and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Partner with Finance and Operations to align people data with financial and operational metrics.
• Develop and execute a multi-year people analytics roadmap, including predictive analytics and scenario modeling as capabilities mature.
• Drive process automation and simplification across onboarding, employee changes, reporting, and approvals.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies (including AI-enabled analytics, workflow automation, and self-service tools) to improve efficiency and insight.
• Lead large-scale system initiatives such as mass data updates, reorganizations, and M&A integrations.
• Establish strong data governance practices, including data standards, definitions, documentation, and controls.
• Act as the enterprise subject matter expert for people systems, data, and analytics.
• Partner closely with People & Culture leadership to support talent strategy, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness.
• Influence senior leaders through clear storytelling, insights, and recommendations grounded in data.
• Support enterprise-level decision-making by ensuring people data is accurate, timely, and decision-ready.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Human Resources, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 8–10+ years of progressive experience in people systems, HR analytics, workforce planning, or business intelligence, including at least 5 years in a people leadership role.
• Experience leading teams through transformation, scaling operations, or modernization initiatives.
• Strong expertise in enterprise HRIS and payroll platforms (e.g., UKG Pro, Workday, Dauforce, ADP, Oracle) and BI/analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional systems, data, and change management initiatives.
• Industry experience in transportation, logistics, manufacturing, or other complex, regulated environments strongly preferred.
• Exceptional communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with comfort operating at the executive level.

Benefits

We invest in our employee’s growth through training and development programs. We offer a comprehensive benefits package such as:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and many more health and wellness benefits
• Paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays
• Paid time off for volunteer activities to help give back to our communities
• Pension Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement Program to achieve your educational goals
• Continuous learning and career development

Safety Commitments

• We make safety a part of every decision
• We make safety personal
• We have the courage to intervene