Description

• Partner with leaders to ensure alignment to our compensation philosophy.
• Provide counsel that upholds Stantec’s culture, vision, and values and safeguards Stantec and its team members.
• Influence excellence and results across all HR programs through effective and easy programs and strategies.
• Serve as a workforce champion and promote a positive work environment and employee experience.
• Lead and report on workforce management activities including recruitment, retention, and workforce balance.
• Manage the rollout and results for talent management strategies.
• Participate in identifying and implementing people-related strategic initiatives.
• Drive engagement & culture initiatives to foster a positive and inclusive work environment.
• Proactively partner with clients to identify strategic issues, workforce planning or organizational design challenges and provide advice and expertise to help develop creative solutions rooted in HR best practices.
• Collaborate with partners across our HR Talent Services team to harness the collective knowledge and work of our expert teams.
• Establish and maintain credibility through a robust understanding of the business strategy, competitors and peer firms, and HR best practices.
• Collaborate within a geographically dispersed team to communicate, facilitate, and/or present HR programs and initiatives to client groups.
• Foster a continuous improvement mindset and continually look for opportunities to increase the return on investment of human resources programs for employees and leaders.
• Guide leaders in constructive ways to model behavior to drive engagement and retention of top talent and develop a high performing team.
• Develop and maintain a trusted advisor relationship with client groups, including employees, managers, and senior leaders, along with our HR colleagues by presenting multiple perspectives and challenging the status quo.
• Participate in organizational design efforts to optimize structure, succession, and efficiency.
• Manage all annual and evergreen HR activities spanning employee engagement, retention and talent development, succession planning, change, conflict and exit management, employment legislation, employee relations, performance management, investigations, job evaluation, compensation management, internal communication, coaching, data analytics, workforce planning, policy interpretation, career coaching, facilitation to positively impact Stantec’s culture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, or a related field.
• Valued as a consummate professional, exercising confidentiality, discretion, sound judgment as well as possessing critical thinking in ambiguous situations.
• Prior experience partnering and providing HR support to corporate functions preferred.
• Ability to travel to other Stantec offices as needed.
• Adaptability to rapidly changing demands.
• Proven influencer and collaborator, with the ability to provide guidance and support to business clients from employee to senior leaders.
• Respected for balancing strategic and operational tasks with strong organizational and time management skills.
• Developed skills in coaching managers, facilitation, conflict resolution and relationship management.
• HR certification preferred.
• Noted for your ability to identify and anticipate strategic and operational business and human capital challenges, then providing and executing innovative solutions with attention to critical details.
• Strong MS Office Suite skills preferred.
• Prior experience successfully operating within a matrix global organization and within a geographically dispersed team is an asset.
• Valued for your agility and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and having a focus for action-orientation on results.
• Regarded as an exceptional communicator and able to influence a broad and diverse range of stakeholders through effective relationships, verbal, and written communication.
• Recognized for your learning mindset, initiative, and ability to understand the business and challenges, and new and innovative approaches that result in improvements in team engagement, productivity and organizational performance.
• Minimum of 7 years of related HR business partner experience.
• Comprehensive understanding of core HR competencies.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance