Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant - Strategy & Operations

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our employees are at the heart of what we do best : helping people, businesses and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.

When you join our team, you’re bringing this purpose to life alongside a passionate community of experts.

Feel empowered to learn and grow while being valued for who you are here, diversity is a strength. You have our commitment to support you in reaching your goals with tools, opportunities, and flexibility.

It’s our employee promise.

Our hybrid work model provides the balance between working from home and enjoying meaningful in-person interactions.

Read on to see how you can shape the future, win as a team, and grow with us.

About the role

The Talent Acquisition, Strategy, Operations, and Systems team oversee the candidate experience from application to hire.

We are looking for a dynamic people-focused Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant - Strategy & Operations for our growing team! In this role, you will have the chance to demonstrate your skill and experience in leading change with data-driven insights and driving complex HR transformation projects.

You will play an important role in leading transformation and change management in HR process and systems across a wide variety of strategic human resource initiatives.

In this role you will work collaboratively across the Canadian HR community and deliver programs and changes that benefit the day to day our managers and employees across the country.

What you'll do here :

The Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant - Strategy & Operations is responsible for analyzing project impacts on stakeholders and leading end-to-end change management across Talent Acquisition (TA) processes and technology in your workstream.

This involves gathering business requirements, scoping the solution, testing, validation, documentation, and user training. Key duties include :

Create and maintain the change request development backlog and triage the list of Talent Acquisition JIRAs on weekly team calls by ensuring that objectives and deadlines are met, sharing updates to the leadership and stakeholders on a periodic basis.

Creating and managing project schedules and planners.

Developing and implementing change management communication plans.

Delivering training and communication strategies for changes in TA processes and technologies.

Continuously improving TA processes and creating training materials, while managing change requests, creating the job aids / user training videos as reference training material.

Manage change with creation and management of Work Back schedule and Project planners. Providing TA leadership of project status on a periodic basis

Own the entire lifecycle of TA projects in your work stream and change requests in addition to providing post-launch maintenance for new changes.

Act as a champion and coach for the HR community on effective project management tools and techniques.

Be a resource person for the various stakeholders affected in the event of problems with the deployment enabling them to excel in their day-to-day deliveries.

Act as an agent of change to evaluate and communicate the impact of these changes on the various operational teams.

What you bring to the table :

Bachelor's degree or any combination of relevant and equivalent training and experience

A minimum of 5 years of experience in activities related to project management in HR.

Knowledge of the insurance industry is considered a strong asset.

Strong knowledge and master of project management and change management methodologies, tools, and best practices is preferred.

Experience leading teams and projects through agile methodologies.

Advanced skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint with strong attention to detail

Ease in managing within a changing environment, ability to smoothly navigate and bring clarity to ambiguity.

Proven abilities to lead through influence with effective relationship building skills to all levels of an organization.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Naturally curious, ability to pick up knowledge and deliver relevant insight diagnosing and simplifying complex problems and dependencies.

Excellent communication skills confidence to interact and present to senior leaders.

For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country.

No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada

Nice to have : Experience working on Jira or Scrum teams.

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What we offer

Working here means you'll be empowered to be and do your best every day. Here is some of what you can expect as a permanent member of our team :

A financial rewards program that recognizes your success

An industry leading Employee Share Purchase Plan; we match 50% of net shares purchased

An extensive flex pension and benefits package, with access to virtual healthcare

Flexible work arrangements

Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year

An annual wellness account that promotes an active and healthy lifestyle

Access to tools and resources to support physical and mental health, embracing change and connecting with colleagues

A dynamic workplace learning ecosystem complete with learning journeys, interactive online content, and inspiring programs

Inclusive employee-led networks to educate, inspire, amplify voices, build relationships and provide development opportunities

Inspiring leaders and colleagues who will lift you up and help you grow

A Community Impact program, because what you care about is a part of what makes you different. And how you contribute to your community should be just as unique.