Associate Vice President, People, Equity, Culture
Equality Fund
Senior People Business Partner
Fullscript
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Senior
About the role
- Develop a deep understanding of the business strategy, operating model, and talent needs of the teams you support.
- Act as the primary People Team touchpoint for leaders, bringing insights, thought partnership, and solutions to complex organizational challenges.
- Anticipate business needs and proactively influence workforce planning, talent decisions.
- Partner with business leaders to design and evolve org structures to support scaling, efficiency, and agility.
- Lead or support succession planning, retention strategies, and career pathing initiatives across teams.
- Diagnose organizational health using both qualitative and quantitative inputs, and co-create strategies to address gaps. (e.g., attrition trends, demographics, leadership development)
- Serve as a strategic connector between the business and other SMEs within the People team function) ensuring seamless integration of programs within People Rewards, Performance and Talent Acquisition.
- Provide clear, contextual feedback to partner functions to influence program design and execution.
- Collaborate across functions to address misalignment, solve systemic issues, and drive organizational clarity.
- Monitor and interpret proactively key people metrics (e.g., attrition trends, engagement scores, hiring velocity, turnover).
- Identify patterns and synthesize data to influence business strategy and talent plans.
- Coach leaders and managers through complex people issues, talent planning discussions, and performance challenges.
- Model leadership behaviours: leading by example, prioritizing effectively, and leaning into difficult conversations with clarity and empathy.
- Contribute to building a high performing culture through talent and leadership development, and team health strategies.
Requirements
- 5+ years in an HR business partner or equivalent strategic people focused role.
- Proven experience supporting senior leaders and influencing organizational strategy in high-growth or complex environments.
- Strong understanding of organizational design, workforce planning, and leadership development frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to use data and insights to inform decision making.
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving alignment across multiple stakeholders.
- **Bonus** if you've been a Business Partner supporting an Engineering, or Technical team
Benefits
- Market competitive compensation package including equity
- RRSP matching (within CAD)
- Flexible PTO policy
- Flexible benefits package and additional perks
- Employee discount on Fullscript catalog of products for family & friends
- Ability to **Work Wherever You Work Well* 🌱*
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
organizational designworkforce planningleadership development frameworksdata analysistalent planningsuccession planningretention strategiesperformance managementattrition analysisengagement metrics
Soft skills
communicationrelationship-buildinginfluencingstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcoachingempathyprioritizationcollaborationnavigating ambiguity
