Human Resources Business Partner

The Opportunity:Posting ID: 25629 Position Type: Regular City: Vancouver, BC, Canada Location: Vancouver H/O - Canfor/CWPM_1000

You are a strategic and business-savvy senior Human Resources leader, with the ability to execute at both the tactical and strategic levels. You have a reputation for exceeding your customer’s needs and redefining the value of what an HR Business Partner can do to bring a people plan to life. You’re passionate about driving strategic thought partnership to executives on people and organizational issues and implementing talent practices that are aligned with best practice and outside the box thinking.

Highly motivated and ambitious, you seek opportunities for growth and advancement and are ready to tackle any HR challenges that may come your way!

As the Corporate HR Business Partner, you will be responsible for aligning HR and business objectives for employees and management across Corporate Functions in North America, such as Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain, IT, Finance, HR, Legal, and Communications. This is a significant hands-on HR role, where you will be sitting alongside Senior Vice-Presidents and executives, granting you the authority to drive your own HR initiatives and create a substantial impact. With freedom and autonomy, you will have a rare chance to lead and shape your own path, taking charge of strategic decisions that will shape the future of the organization.

A day in the life of the HR Business Partner includes:

• Ensuring staffing needs are met and acting as a facilitator between the business and our talent acquisition group.
• Demonstrating leadership on all aspects of organizational effectiveness, including on-boarding, performance management, coaching, talent assessment & succession planning, and employee engagement
• Relationship building - Builds personal relationships of trust and can be relied on to do what is promised
• Being a leader in safety and well-being of our employees
• Working directly with the Corporate teams in Vancouver, Prince George, BC and Mobile, Alabama and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, providing best in class employee relations and employee experience
• Speaking the language of the business; understanding Canfor’s products, services, business models, market trends, financial drivers, measures, and strategies; and knowing how these create competitive advantage
• Strategic Workforce Planning: anticipate future workforce needs based on existing business strategy and retention rates, ensures a continuous supply of the right talent, both externally and internally succession planning, identify key roles and succession plans for each of these roles
• Supporting the training and development of our employee’s groups. Acting as an advocate for our corporate groups and individual employees in supporting their learning and development needs
• Leverage CoE talent frameworks to develop proactive talent management solutions including; workforce planning & org design, succession planning, and performance management that allows leaders an easy way to align people and work to achieve business outcomes
• Working with your internal business clients and our Total Rewards team to determine appropriate compensation strategies for new hires and department and organizational planning
• Leveraging deep business understanding to identify issues, diagnose root causes, provide insights, offer recommendations, and develop proactive solutions to solve pressing business objectives through talent lens, such as productivity, engagement, skill development, attraction and retention & recognition.

For this role come equipped with:

• In a perfect world, you have your CPHR designation and have a track record of successfully leading teams.
• Extensive experience as an HR Business Partner to executives in a large corporation
• A demonstrated understanding of client service
• A Human Resources Degree or related field

If you have a strong analytical mindset, the ability to travel domestically and globally on occasion, and superior communication, click that “apply” button today!

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