Indigenous Employee Relations Manager

1 week ago


Nova Scotia, Canada Scotiabank Full time

Company Overview

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas, committed to delivering exceptional service and creating value for our customers, communities, and employees.

About this Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join Scotiabank's Employee Relations (ER) team as an Indigenous Employee Relations Manager - Strategic Risk Mitigation. In this role, you will be responsible for investigating and finalizing medium/high risk cases in support of designated business lines/subsidiaries/countries, ensuring compliance with governing regulations, Bank policies, and processes.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Employee Relations professional to champion a customer-focused culture, deepen client relationships, and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.

  • Independently manage cases to ensure that all activities are conducted in compliance with governing regulations, Bank policies, and processes.
  • Act as a subject matter expert and provide value-added advice and coaching on employment-related issues to employees, People Managers, and HR Business Partners, ensuring global consistency and alignment to established governing regulations, Bank policies, and processes.
  • Conduct formal investigations into allegations of serious misconduct both independently and/or in collaboration with the Employment Law Group (e.g., harassment, discrimination, violence) and Corporate Security (e.g., criminal activities, breaches of privacy and confidentiality).
  • Lead employee interviews, often engaging in contentious dialogue to analyze the facts of situations; write investigative reports and present findings and recommendations to Senior Leadership to mitigate legal risk to the Bank.
  • Work in collaboration with HR Business Partners in planning the end-to-end delivery of strategic initiatives (e.g., reorganizations impacting a large employee population); identify trends and provide insights to Senior Leadership and HR Business Partners to contribute to the HR strategy (e.g., control breakdowns, talent strategy).
  • Promote and support a seamless and consistent experience for employees and People Managers with ER/LR issues and concerns; update and maintain accurate information in the ER/LR case file to ensure defensibility against potential litigation.

Required Skills and Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you will need:

  • Relationship focused, highly collaborative, and results-oriented
  • Ability to pivot with ease between priorities
  • A desire to lead people to be their best or similar leadership criteria
  • An interviewing and/or consultative background would be a strong asset

Benefits

As a valued member of our team, you can expect:

  • An inclusive & collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success
  • A competitive rewards package: Performance bonus, Employee Share Ownership Program, Pension Plan Matching, Health Benefits from day one
  • Your career matters - access to career development and progression opportunities
  • The opportunity to join our diverse and inclusive organization and connect with other First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Scotiabankers and their allies when joining our Indigenous Employee Resource Group
  • $110,000 annually dedicated to your well-being
  • Traditional Indigenous Practices Leave
  • Indigenous Employee Mentoring Program

Location(s)

This role is based in various locations across Canada, including Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Ontario.



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