Senior People Business Partner
Lightspeed (Formerly SEOshop)
Senior People Business Partner
Lightspeed (Formerly SEOshop)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Toronto • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Senior
About the role
- Serve as main contact for people-related projects and deliver strategic people plans for client groups
- Provide strategic leadership to leaders, key stakeholders and People & Culture team to deliver on needs and priorities
- Act as a trusted advisor and coach leadership to enhance effectiveness within client groups
- Be the first line of contact in People & Culture for any employee relations issues
- Drive proactive conversations with business leaders around People data for their respective client groups
- Partner on employee related initiatives and provide thought-leadership in Career Development, Talent Development/Management, Employee Engagement, Compensation
- Lead special projects as required by the client groups or P&C team
- Partner with functional leaders to drive organizational design activities including succession planning, talent development, and workforce planning
Requirements
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in an HR Generalist and People Business Partner function
- Bachelor’s Degree in HR or related discipline
- Experience working on large, global and complex projects that span across the organization
- Superb communication (oral, written and presentation both in French and English), coaching and influencing skills
- Fluency in English as a working language is required
- In depth experience in Employee Relations and complex employment legislation in Canada and US
- Keen interest and involvement in the Diversity, equity and inclusion space and driving employee engagement
- Exceptional relationship building skills and able to quickly build rapport with various types of personalities and executive leadership team
- Out of the box thinker with a strong desire to bring in metrics and insights to the conversation
- Ability to alternate between strategy and tactical execution
Benefits
- Ability to do your job in a truly flexible hybrid environment (3 days/week in office)
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Flexible working policy
- Health insurance
- Health and wellness benefits
- Possibility for transit fees to be covered
- Linkedin learning
- Volunteer day
- Genuine career opportunities
- Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
HR GeneralistPeople Business PartnerEmployee RelationsTalent DevelopmentCompensationOrganizational DesignSuccession PlanningWorkforce PlanningDiversity, Equity and InclusionEmployee Engagement
Soft skills
communicationcoachinginfluencingrelationship buildingstrategic thinkingtactical executionproblem solvingtrust advisorpresentation skillsrapport building
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in HR
