Employee Relations, Project Manager

6 months ago


Toronto, Canada Royal Bank of Canada Full time

**Job Summary**

Manages the planning, organization and implementation of projects. Applies extensive, in-depth knowledge, skills, and practices to perform complex assignments.

**What is the opportunity?**

The Project Manager, Employee Relations is a key member of the Employee Relations team.

RBC’s Employee Relations team provides advice and counsel to executives, people leaders and employees on complex workplace situations, providing a fair and transparent employee experience while managing risk to RBC. In this fast-paced environment, the Project Manager will lead and deliver projects within Employee Relations in support of the ER strategy.

The Project Manager, Employee Relations plans, directs, and coordinates activities to deliver significant Employee Relations (ER) projects and ensure the goals and objectives are accomplished within the defined timeframe, scope and budget.

The Project manager works with a broad set of stakeholders including members of the Employee Relations team, Human Resources, and other RBC teams to manage complex and transformational Employee Relations projects as well as contribute Project Management support where enterprise initiatives have a significant Employee Relations impact or require ER contribution.

**What will you do?**
- Plans and executes Employee Relations projects with a high level of complexity including managing scope, requirement, changes, multiple and competing demands and priorities as well as determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk using appropriate fact-based metrics / assumptions.
- Facilitates planning discussions with the Employee Relations leadership team in the early stages of project formation, and at critical points throughout project delivery
- Develops integrated baseline project plans, documents assumptions, refines plans and manages performance against them. Identifies resources and skills required to deliver initiatives.
- Partner with Business, Technology and other RBC teams to ensure that the deliverables achieve the intended results that enables change management and adoption.
- Raises and tracks issues and conflicts, removes barriers, resolves project issues and escalates them to their executive when required.
- Manages project communications including status reports to executives, stakeholders, business units, vendors, project team, and other communications required. Provides senior management with timely updates on project issues.
- Creates and report on the roadmap of Employee Relations initiatives and maintains the pipeline of change initiatives, including ongoing reporting of the portfolio of initiatives and providing transparency to the factors affecting Organizational Change so that they may be managed accordingly based on degree of change being introduced.
- Seeks out industry trends and organizational knowledge to understand alternative approaches and/or solutions.

**What do you need to succeed?**

**Must-haves**:

- 5+ years’ progressive project-related experience
- Experience managing projects with high level of value (benefit/cost), and a high level of complexity and uncertainty
- Undergraduate degree Business/Human Resources (preferred)
- PMP certification or equivalent (preferred)
- Strong communications both written and verbally
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, able to juggle and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously while delivering on commitments.
- Experience establishing and managing relationships with executives and senior level stakeholders with the ability to impact and influence
- Strong track record of successful and timely delivery on projects and/or initiatives

**Nice-to-haves**:

- Familiarity with project management methodologies or Project management related experience and/or PMP certification beneficial
- Financial services and/or consulting experience
- Governance and/or regulatory reporting experience
- Familiarity with cross functional and/or global projects

**What’s in it for you?**

We thrive on the challenge to be our best and work together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation.
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
- Opportunities to take on progressively greater scopes of work

**Job Skills**

Business Oriented, Communication, Long Term Planning, Meeting Management, Organizational Change Management, Problem Solving, Project Management, Resource Coordination, Results-Oriented, Time Management

**Additional Job Details**

**Address**:
ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTO

**City**:
TORONTO

**Country**:
Canada

**Work hours/week**:
37.5

**Employment Type**:
Full time

**Platform**:
HUMAN RESOURCES

**Job Type**:
Regular

**Pay Type**:
Salaried



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