Practice Leader, Strategic Workforce Planning

Talent management / Permanent / Anywhere in Canada (hybrid or telework)_

**Responsibilities**:

- Create and implement strategic workforce planning practices in collaboration with other HR programs and practices (succession, talent development, etc.).
- Closely collaborate with HR partners and stakeholders from various sectors to understand relevant issues and challenges.
- Draw a portrait of the current workforce based on various HR indicators, including profiles of our talent (among other things, an inventory of their skills).
- Analyze current and future staffing needs (professional, key position and skill evolution) according to the company’s strategic orientation. Perform gap analyses to achieve targets.
- Develop an overarching strategy to address areas of vulnerability in the workforce: Establish a concerted action plan with various parties concerned (other HR expertise, business sectors, etc.) in the form of integrated initiatives.
- Implement metrics, dashboards and data forecasting models in collaboration with the HR analytics team in order to track current and future portraits of the workforce and appropriately manage the practice.
- Establish an organizational framework for current and future competencies and ensure its effective implementation.
- Act as strategic advisor on various organizational mandates regarding processes that impact strategic workforce planning.
- Provide executive presentations on the practice, as well as its accountability.
- Collaborate on various talent management and development projects.
- Continuously monitor information and the market for best practices in talent management.

**Desired profile**:

- Bachelor’s degree in human resources management, business administration, or another relevant discipline
- Minimum of ten years’ experience in human resources or in a relevant field, ideally in workforce planning, project management, talent management and development or HR analytics
- Excellent business sense with strategic and systematic thinking skills
- Strong analytical and synthesis skills
- Excellent popularization and communication skills
- Leadership skills and sharp political acumen
- Team player and excellent collaborator
- Knowledge of the Agile methodology (asset)
- Knowledge of Workday (asset), HR analytics tools and Office suite
- Excellent command of French and English (oral and written) for frequent interaction with internal French
- and English-speaking colleagues or partners across Canada and the United States

**Company Overview**:
**About**:
iA Financial Group is the strength of a company with a human side, with its over 8,000 employees. Together, we have earned the trust of our more than four million clients and 50,000 advisors who have chosen us for their insurance, savings, and wealth management.

With over $200 billion in assets and half a billion invested in technological innovation, we’re a key player in the financial services industry in Canada and the United States. The secret to our success? Investing in you, one person at a time. Because, for over 125 years, we have believed that it’s by supporting our employees and surrounding ourselves with the most reputable leaders in the industry, we will continue to innovate.

At iA, we’re invested in you.

**Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**:
At iA Financial Group, we support and celebrate diversity. We strive to provide a workplace that is recognized as inclusive for all, regardless of ethnic origin, nationality, language, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family situation, or physical or mental disability.

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