Strategic Partner

**Job Type**:Regular

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**How Agropur invests in YOU**
- Bright, stimulating work environment in the heart of nature
- Fitness center and locker rooms
- Free indoor parking
- Flexible / hybrid work schedules for certain positions
- Recognition of years of experience in calculating vacation time
- Company pension plan with employer contributions
- Benefits including Health, Dental and Telemedicine
- And much more

**What’s involved in this role**
- In the context of organizational transformation, act as a change agent in employee and labour relations, bringing an innovative and sustainable vision based on trust.
- Contribute to the improvement of the employee experience and work organization.
- Support managers and their teams in employee and labour relations management.
- Direct, coach and guide on-site human capital business partners on all matters related to employee and labour relations, including disciplines, absenteeism, grievances, and complaints to various bodies.
- Ensure that the strategies used for your sector of activity are optimal and based on best practices and propose new ways of doing things if necessary.
- Support various organizational projects such as acquisitions, reorganizations, closures, terminations and employee disputes with all legal authorities.
- Ensure legal monitoring and follow market trends in terms of best practices.
- Coordinate the investigation processes required in relation to complaints to the ethics line or any other workplace complaints affecting employees.
- Represents the Organization before courts and administrative bodies in matters of employee relations and labour relations, and prepares cases for administrative and legal appeals.
- Conducts various jurisprudential and doctrinal research and monitors best practices to keep employee relations and labour relations policies and administrative procedures up to date.
- Provide information, coaching and training on employee and labour relations as well as good management practices to the various levels of managers and supervisors.
- Coordinate the planning and orientation of collective agreement negotiations with all stakeholders, including the coordination of the contingency plan.
- Act as the employer's spokesperson during the renewal of collective agreements.
- Establish negotiation mandates jointly with managers and coordinate the steps to obtain approvals.
- Analyze union demands in collective agreement negotiation files and conduct comparative analyses with the support of human capital business partners.
- Responsible for drafting collective agreement language, letters of agreement or any other document resulting from interactions with unions.
- Administer the financial mandate of the negotiation.

**What you need to join our team**
- Bachelor’s degree in industrial relations or human resources management (any other combination deemed relevant will be considered).
- At least 7 years of relevant experience in labour relations, including experience in negotiation as a spokesperson.
- You have experience in the manufacturing sector and/or multisites, an asset.
- Charted professional in human resources, an asset.
- In-depth knowledge of labour laws, regulations and case law as well as dispute resolution processes, including arbitration and mediation, is essential.
- Proficiency in Office suite (Word, Excel, Sharepoint, etc.).
- Bilingualism (English and French) - Frequent communication with partners, customers and/or employees outside Quebec.

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