Vice President People

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We're looking for a **VP of People and Culture** to join our North American team in Montreal, QC. Your focus will be to build strong relationships and deliver a people strategy.

Leading a great team of People Business partners, each serving different business units across North America. You will be responsible for collaborating with the other P&C expert groups and functional leaders to identify, build, implement programs to support leaders and the company's success. You will be an integral part of the P&C leadership team working with Talent and Capability, Total Rewards, Operations and Systems and Insights, Talent Acquisition and regional P&C leaders globally. **This position can be remote.**

**What you will be doing**:

- Establish a performance consulting practice with deep partnerships within the business in order to enable and sustain a performance focused culture across the organisation
- Provide sound business partnership day-to-day on a wide range of HR functions including labour relations, compensation, talent management, workforce planning, performance management, organisational design, change management, employee relations, succession management, recruitment, process improvement, learning and development.
- Provide strategic leadership to leaders, key stakeholders and People & Culture team to deliver on the needs and priorities of our growing teams
- Act as a trusted advisor and coach leadership to enhance their effectiveness within your client groups
- Lead and develop a team of People Business Partners who act as the first line of contact to leaders for all matters People related
- Drive proactive conversations with business leaders in a predictable way around People data for their respective client groups
- Partner with functional leaders to drive organisational design activities (succession planning, talent development, workforce planning)
- Partner closely with internal stakeholders on employee related initiatives and provide thought-leadership in areas such as Career Development, Talent Development/Management, Employee Engagement, Compensation, etc.
- Lead special projects as required by the client groups or P&C team

**What you'll bring to the team**:
Reporting into our Chief People Officer, you will be managing a team of 10 people located between Montreal and Toronto. Our team is responsible for providing sound business partnership day-to-day.
You will also be working closely with the Heads of P&C in other regions of the world (EMEA & APAC).
- You have several years of leadership experience at the Director level or above
- You have strong written and verbal communication skills in **both French and English** **(bilingual)**:

- Superior ability to influence and collaborate with senior management and work across all levels, cultures and geographically dispersed teams in a global organisation
- Ability to problem solve & create brainstorming sessions to put ideas into execution or empower your team to do so
- Building strong partnerships in all business units to deliver HR programs at an integrated level.
- Establishing a world-class partnership team through hiring, coaching and developing People Business Partnership team members
- Providing practical insights into how best to motivate and manage the workforce of today and plan for the workforce of tomorrow.
- Working within a fast-paced, high growth technology organisation, you are phenomenal at prioritising issues with competing demands
- Proven delivery of tangible people results including building and transforming at scale.
- You possess the highest level of integrity and stellar judgement
- You love alternating between strategy and tactical execution.

We know that people are more than what's on their CV. If you're unsure that you have the right profile for the role... hit the 'Apply' button and give it a try

**What's in it for you?**

Come live the Lightspeed experience...
- Ability to do your job in a truly flexible environment; remote and hybrid work;
- Genuine career opportunities in a company that's creating new jobs everyday;
and enjoy a range of benefits that'll keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry:

- Lightspeed share scheme (we are all owners)
- Access to life and health insurance from day one of employment (premium covered by Lightspeed)
- Flexible paid time off policy (FPTO)
- RRSP Contribution Program
- Up to $500 in reimbursement for physical activity & health and wellness per calendar year
- Access to employee Apple purchase program for personal use
- Parental Leave Program
- Public Transport Reimbursement

**Where to from here?**
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you're proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

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