Manager Organizational Effectiveness

**Organizational Effectiveness Manager**

**About High Liner**

High Liner Foods was founded in 1899 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada as a small salt fish company. Lunenburg continues to be home of our Canadian Operations. As a category leader in Seafood, High Liner Foods has a strong footprint across Canada and the U.S. with close to $1 billion in sales.

High Liner Foods is the seafood brand people trust. Every day we’re committed to living our purpose by Reimagining Seafood to Nourish Life through a focus on our customers, innovation, and of course, responsible operations. Our talented team is dedicated to the High Liner goal of becoming the leader in branded, value-added seafood in North America.

We offer professional, technical and operational career opportunities across Canada and the United States. We believe in building a high-performance organization by investing in our people. We are focused on developing future leaders from within and fostering career growth and advancement.

It’s our time to make waves. Join us.

**High Liner Foods is a career destination. We look for high performing talent who value**:

- Safety; it’s our #1 priority
- Opportunities to contribute to your community through volunteerism
- A culture of inclusion, support, and recognition
- Senior leaders that are highly accessible and available to employees
- A strong focus on education and career development through training
- Competitive salary and performance rewards
- A comprehensive benefit plan designed to keep up with the changing healthcare needs across North America

**What to expect on the job**:
Reporting to the Director, Organizational Effectiveness, the role is responsible for using data-driven insights to manage programs/processes such as performance management, potential identification, development planning, succession management, competency model management, coaching and assessments, or employee listening activities (surveys).
- Design and implement organizational effectiveness initiatives, including organizational design, talent/ performance management, process improvement, and culture change.
- Develop and execute workforce planning strategies to ensure we have the right people in the right roles at the right time.
- Build cross-functional relationships and collaborate with key stakeholders to assess business needs and priorities and determine the implications for talent management and organizational effectiveness programs/processes and ensure full integration with other initiatives.
- Collaborate with business leaders to identify talent gaps and develop solutions to address them.
- Develop and execute diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives to create an inclusive and welcoming workplace culture.
- Conduct ongoing research, analytics, and data-driven insights to identify leading practices and trends that can be leveraged to advance strategic priorities and objectives and inform future programming recommendations.
- Develop and maintain HR metrics to track the effectiveness of talent management and organizational effectiveness initiatives.
- Provide coaching, training, and support to managers and employees on talent management and organizational effectiveness topics.
- Design innovative, scalable, and technology-enabled solutions, in collaboration with internal teams and strategic vendor partners, to ensure the seamless delivery of organization-wide programs/processes, enhance the end-user experience, and advance strategic priorities/objectives.
- Identify and implement change management and communication requirements for all levels of the organization. This includes working in partnership with HR business partners and internal communications team to develop and revise tools, resources, and communication materials to increase the adoption of a process and/or change.
- Collaborate closely with internal teams and vendor partners to implement systems or processes that deliver scalable, reliable, and integrated talent data.
- Review and implement measurement and evaluation tools to determine program/process efficiency and effectiveness.

**What you bring to the role**:

- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field. CHRL designation nice to have.
- 5+ years of experience in talent management, organizational effectiveness, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing employee engagement/ experience, talent management and organizational effectiveness programs.
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Experience with DEI initiatives preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Background in succession planning in areas of talent/potential assessments, career paths, and building a diverse leadership pipeline.
- Customer-focused working style