Strategic People Partner

**Overview**

Trimac isn't just a transportation company; it's an industry disruptor with a remarkable 80-year legacy of safely delivering products that improve people’s lives across North America.

Our workplace culture is centered on being safe, respectful, innovative and inclusive. We are committed to maintaining a rewarding work environment that allows employees to experience new opportunities and build their chosen careers. Across the company, we encourage open communication, champion integrity, celebrate individuality and cultivate diverse talents and perspectives. If you’re ready for a challenge that will help drive forward an industry leading team, we invite you to begin your journey with us.

**Job Details**
- This role reports to the Director, People Partnerships and acts as a key advisor and consultant to the executive leadership team and business leaders, driving alignment between business objectives and people strategies. This role plays a key role in shaping and executing people strategies that drive business performance, partnering closely with leadership to lead change management, support workforce planning, talent development, organizational effectiveness, and culture-building initiatives, aligning people practices with organizational goals, foster culture, and enhance the employee experience.

**Responsibilities**
- Serve as a senior advisor to executive and senior leadership, aligning business strategy with people strategy to enable high-performing scalable teams
- Lead cross-functional efforts in organizational design, succession planning, workforce optimization, and leadership development acting as the conduit between operations and the P&C Centers of Excellence.
- Actively contribute to long-term strategic planning processes with business leaders and people leadership
- Play lead role in partnering with client groups develop, implement and execute key people and culture strategies, practices, and programs; including ensuring that appropriate people, communication, and development are in place to support people, our culture strategy and program delivery
- Proactively seek knowledge of both industry and functional specialty by researching best practices, legal developments, emerging trends, technological advancements and benchmark comparisons in order to create HR practices that are best in class
- Lead workforce planning across the organization to create a robust, specific and scalable approach to growing our people and our business
- Act as the liaison for Employee and Labour Relations strategies, including union prevention and response plans, collective bargaining, pay simplification, and grievances
- Professionally resolve complex employee relations matters, including through being a mediator, coach and conducting investigations as necessary
- Champion diversity & inclusion efforts and providing support for initiatives aimed at fostering an enriching, inclusive employee experience
- Use technology to capture and analyze data, reducing transactional time and focusing on the internal P&C function
- Support organizational goals in the development of people through the creation and facilitation of training initiatives and team building activities that include talent development, training, leadership development, building and implementing growth and development programs, performance management, and business transformation
- Foresee your business client needs well in advance in terms of workforce and succession planning
- Respond to and work with Legal to address complex legal compliance issues (ex. legal demand letters, lawsuits, labour relations board complaints, discrimination claims)
- Hold a key seat at the table to contribute to business strategy, along with the ability to manage and lead innovation while promoting positive change
- Build trusting, impactful relationships with genuine care for the people you support
- May be required to perform other related duties from time to time.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Human Resources Management, or another related field; or equivalent robust and directly related experience
- 3 to 5 years of previous experience in a senior Human Resources role
- Experience working in a unionized environment
- Knowledge in all relevant employment and labor legislation, including Canadian Federal and Provincial legislation
- Completion of SPHR or CPHR or working towards attainment is an asset

**Benefits**

We invest in our employee’s growth through training and development programs. We offer a comprehensive benefits package such as:

- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and many more health and wellness benefits
- Paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays
- Paid time off for volunteer activities to help give back to our communities
- Pension Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement Program to achieve your educational goals
- Continuous learning and career development

**Who You Are**
- Able to build relationships and work collaborative