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The People & Culture Director in Canada is a key member of the leadership team and partners closely with business leaders to deliver on the talent strategy, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic direction and growth ambitions. This role provides expert level leadership to advise on Canadian HR practices, policy interpretation, problem resolution and legislative requirements. This role will involve overseeing all aspects of P&C operations, including talent management, leadership development, performance enablement and organizational change initiatives. Leveraging strong business acumen and People & Culture expertise, this role leads a team of trusted P&C partners, ensuring all P&C programs and initiatives are implemented effectively, taking into account compliance with employment laws and regulations.

Making an Impact

• Partner with the Country leader and be a member of the Canadian Leadership Team accountable for setting and executing the country’s North America business strategy and plan

• Lead and drive the talent strategy needed to deliver on the business strategy, coaching and supporting the leadership team on key people and cultural needs, and ensuring overall people & culture goals are achieved for succession, diversity, engagement and retention

• Drive a culture of accountability, ensuring the organization is effectively performing.

• Work within our collaborative organization model leveraging resources from the multi-brand consult and design teams to ensure that talent strategy priorities are resourced and executed successfully

• Ownership of the Health & Safety Program for Canada- setting strategy, oversight of policies, H&S project execution, provincial compliance and risk mitigation. Facilitates direction and alignment of financial impacts related to workers compensation and provincial legislative framework.

• Provide expert level leadership on all legislative changes and its impact on the business. Analyzes and evaluates the impact of Canadian legislation changes to ensure the organization has made the necessary adjustments to all policies and processes

• Provide guidance to Canadian Leadership Team and functional support regarding Canadian HR practices, policy interpretation, problem resolution and legislative requirements.

• Oversee Canadian Total Rewards including administration and design of Canadian benefits, pension and EAP Programs

Sharing Expertise

• Represents the Canadian Organization and/or ManpowerGroup as an HR thought leader; participating at external events and/or with clients to build our brand or share HR expertise

Gaining Exposure

• Partner with the SVP - People & Culture and be a member of the ManpowerGroup N.A. People & Culture leadership team, working together to ensure that we are executing against our overall people & culture goals so that we can achieve our goal of being the #1 Global Workforce Solutions Company

Your Typical Day

• Improve the ManpowerGroup employee experience and engagement through strong talent programs that build capabilities of our current workforce and prepare them and our organization for tomorrow.

• Driving organizational performance for key roles.

• Working with key leaders to identify and prioritize and build key talent strategies and practices.

• Working with leaders to identify and select strong senior talent.

• Working with leaders to develop senior talent based on the individuals strengths, career aspirations, and future talent needs.

• Oversight of team managing Canadian benefits, pension & EAP programming

• Oversight of large scale employee relations Issues for country

Other accountabilities as assigned

Required

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in Human Resources or mix of business leadership and Human Resource leadership experience

• Prior experience as a Sr. HR business partner in a large complex organization as a member of both the business leadership team and the HR leadership team

• Experience in leading Health & Safety Programs and Total Rewards programs in Canada.

• Strong knowledge of Canadian HR practices, policy interpretation, problem resolution and legislative requirements including OHSA

• Proficiency in all Canadian labor laws and regulations, including all provinces.

• Strong conceptual thinking skills, able to think outside the box and come up with innovative solutions that are practical and efficient

• Strong business knowledge and financial acumen – experience with a variety of operating/organizational models and/or industries, prior experience working in a business that needed to innovate and increase efficiency to drive delivery & sales and business growth

• Ability to translate business strategies into talent/workforce strategies with concrete plans to manage from design to execution

• Strong OD/change management expertise in addition to broad HR experience, contemporary HR mindset, brings fresh ideas and approaches to ensuring we attract great people and enable them to drive great results

• Strong leadership skills, comfortable working in a collaborative environment where resources are flexible based on business need

• Effectively engage and influence stakeholders - collaborative, provides insight, raises and resolves conflict to drive alignment and increase performance

• Experience in a multi-location service business, building credibility with all levels of employees in a strong sales and delivery driven organization

• Bachelor’s degree

Nice to Have

• Master’s degree or MBA

• French language skills would be beneficial.

ManpowerGroup is proud to be an equal opportunity affirmative action workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, political ideology, ancestry, the presence of any physical, sensory, or mental disabilities, or other legally protected status.

A strong commitment is made by each employee and is necessary to ensure equal employment opportunity for all. ManpowerGroup is an inclusive workplace that will recruit, hire, train, and promote persons of all job titles, and ensure all other personnel actions are administered without regard to non-merit-based characteristics of individuals. Reasonable accommodation during the interview process can be provided.

Job: Human Resources

Organization: ManpowerGroup

Title: People & Culture Director

Location: CAN-ON-Toronto

Requisition ID: 0031625