PEOPLE AND CULTURE BUSINESS PARTNER DIRECTOR (HYBRID)

As GreenShield continues to disrupt the health benefits, health services and social impact industries, People & Culture (P&C) plays a pivotal role in enabling enterprise strategy, business transformation and future-ready talent decisions. The Director, People & Culture Business Partner is an integral member of the P&C Leadership Team and serves as a strategic enterprise advisor and primary P&C partner to executives, vice-presidents and directors.

This role will partner directly with senior leaders and their teams to translate ambitious business plans into practical workforce, organization and talent priorities. Working closely with P&C Communities of Expertise (COEs), the Director will bring a strong business lens to the design and delivery of P&C products, services and solutions, while helping leaders build the capabilities, structures and culture required for sustainable growth. The role will also lead strategic projects across P&C, as required.

ABOUT YOU
You bring a commercial mindset, enterprise orientation and the curiosity to identify workplace and workforce trends, patterns and emerging needs. You use data, insights, business drivers and the external landscape to anticipate human-capital risks and opportunities, strengthen the employee experience and shape talent strategies that enable growth.

You challenge conventional thinking, develop bold and practical solutions, and are comfortable influencing senior leaders with clear, courageous counsel. You can simplify complexity, create alignment across stakeholders and help leaders make disciplined people, organization and talent decisions that deliver results.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Strategic consulting and advisement: Advise senior leaders on P&C policies, best practices and continuous improvement opportunities that increase engagement and performance. Build a strong understanding of each client group and its business strategy. Act as a change agent from planning through implementation and use ongoing sensing to identify opportunities that can become strategic initiatives.
• Collaboration: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and maintain a strong understanding of business priorities, operating models, talent and culture. Partner with COEs by bringing a practical business lens to the products, programs and services they build.
• Strategic workforce and talent planning: Partner with senior leaders to translate business strategy into workforce plans, capability priorities and talent strategies. Identify critical roles, talent risks, succession needs and internal mobility opportunities, and influence build, buy and borrow decisions that strengthen leadership bench strength and support future growth.
• P&C products and programs: Deliver P&C cycles and business initiatives while creating an exceptional employee and leader experience. Work with COEs and leaders to support a diverse, inclusive, respectful, high-performing and empowered organization.
• Insights and analytics: Translate workforce data, engagement results, attrition, performance, mobility and capability trends into clear business insights. Use data to diagnose risks, shape recommendations and coach leaders to develop practical action plans that improve employee experience, team effectiveness and business performance.
• Project management: Lead execution against business goals by mapping end-to-end processes, using agile planning, defining clear deliverables, roles and accountabilities, and incorporating retrospective reviews and lessons learned.
• Organization effectiveness and change leadership: Coach leaders on operating model evolution, role clarity, decision rights, team effectiveness, ways of working and people-management practices. Help leaders build change capacity, manage resistance and sustain adoption through periods of growth, integration and transformation. Share guidance and expertise with P&C peers and developing P&C team members.