HR Business Partner

For over 50 years, LifeLabs has been Canada’s leading provider of laboratory diagnostic information and digital health connectivity systems, enabling patients and healthcare practitioners to diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent disease. We are passionate about empowering healthier Canadians through accessible, accurate, and innovative diagnostic services. We are committed innovators, operating Canada's first commercial genetics lab, and the country's largest online patient portal, with more than 8 million Canadians receiving their results online. More than 112 million laboratory tests come through LifeLabs’ laboratories annually, and our team of more than 6,000 passionate, caring, and diverse professionals works together as one to provide high quality testing and results that Canadians can trust. We know that behind every lab requisition, sample being tested, or investment in technology is an individual and their family counting on us. At LifeLabs, you can make a meaningful impact on Canadians’ lives every day. Our teams are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Best Employers, reflecting our deep commitment to our core values of caring, agility, teamwork, and a customer-centered approach. As part of this commitment, LifeLabs prioritizes the ongoing development of our diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program to better serve the needs of our diverse workforce and the communities we serve. We continue to take steps to challenge ourselves to act with courage and integrity, and to create an environment where people can be their true selves. These values are not just words on a page, they guide our actions and decisions every day and have come to define our team culture.

Position Summary

The HR Business Partner (HRBP) will provide strategic advice and proactive human resources partnership to leaders within a national business function(s) and will be responsible for driving people-focused solutions that enable the business to achieve its goals. The HRBP partners closely with leaders to enhance organizational effectiveness, build leadership capability, and support a positive, high-performance culture. This is an opportunity to leverage your HR expertise, business and financial acumen, strategic thinking, coaching and influencing skills, and change management knowledge to partner with leaders in solving complex people challenges and opportunities that support LifeLabs’ success. This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 3 days per week onsite.

Vacancy status: This posting is for an existing position.

What You’ll Do

Strategic Partnership and Consultative Problem Solving

• Act as a trusted advisor to leaders by providing insights, strategic and consultative advice, and coaching on people matters.
• Partner with leaders to understand business priorities, identify people implications, and translate those priorities into integrated HR strategies and solutions.
• Identify emerging people issues and trends to inform decision-making.
• Break down problems and analyze data and information to provide insights and recommendations, partnering with HR Centres of Expertise as required.
• Assess people and organizational issues, balancing business priorities, employee considerations, organizational risk, and HR policy to develop and recommend appropriate solutions.

Enable The People Strategy And Deliver The HR Plan

• Partner with business leaders in delivering the People and Culture strategy, executing the strategy and plan in alignment with broader HR and Centre of Expertise (COE) teams.
• Guide, coach, and lead delivery within assigned business functions of Corporate HR initiatives, including DEI, Performance, Talent, and Engagement.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and participate in HR projects.

Strategic Employee And Labour Relations

• Partner with the Employee and Labour Relations team to support the success of ER/LR programs and initiatives.
• With guidance from the ER/LR team, address complex employee relations issues within assigned business functions.
• Partner with the ER/LR team to ensure findings from investigations are understood by business leaders, implementation plans are developed in partnership with groups across HR, and results and impacts are assessed.

Talent And Workforce Planning

• Work with partners across HR to develop and implement integrated talent strategies and solutions to support the business in attracting, developing, and retaining the talent needed to meet current and future business needs and address key talent priorities.
• Support leaders in building employee capabilities and enabling team performance.
• Support succession planning and leadership development initiatives.
• Lead workforce planning efforts to ensure the right talent is in plac