Human Resources Business Partner

Human Resources Business Partner - ( 240000DV )

**Description**

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that works to support operational excellence. The Stantec community unites more than 28,000 employees working in over 400 locations across 6 continents. Our Functional Services Teams (FSTs) include Corporate Development, Finance, HR, HSSE, IT, Legal, Marketing/Communications, Practice Services and Real Estate and Procurement. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our FSTs are vital to making our Company stronger.

**Your Opportunity**

An exciting opportunity exists for a highly motivated and experienced HR Business Partner to join our passionate, collaborative, and results-driven team in our British Columbia offices (based out of Vancouver office). As part of our HR Client Services (HRCS) team, the HR Business Partner will be supporting leaders and employees for various teams within the region. You will need to wear several hats, be a trusted advisor, strategist, consultant, analyst, change agent and coach. Sit alongside and collaborate with business leaders to develop and implement strategies that support people and organizational needs in addition to facilitating the deployment of our HR Strategic Plan. Every day you will engage in business conversations, influence, and equip people leaders to lead their teams and foster a highly engaged, inspiring, and inclusive workplace.

We are looking for someone who is resilient, pragmatic, adaptable, and a team player. Your counsel should be logical, analytical, and strategic. Your passion to make a difference will contribute to the success of our internal clients in creating better outcomes for our Stantec clients and the various communities we serve.

**Your Key Responsibilities**
- Quickly establishes and maintains effective working relationships with internal client groups, including employees, managers, and senior leaders.
- Proactively partner with clients to identify strategic issues, workforce planning or organizational design challenges and provide advice and expertise to help develop creative solutions.
- Serves as a workforce champion and promotes a positive work environment and employee experience.
- Facilitates trainings as needed, enables performance management and planning sessions with managers and employees.
- Practices effective relationship management to elevate working relationships with internal client groups, including managers, senior leaders, and employees along with our global HR specialists.
- Develops and implements HR-related projects and participates as a team member on special projects as needed. May lead local or regional projects.
- Fosters a continuous improvement mindset and continually look for opportunities to increase the return on investment of human resources programs for employees and leaders.
- Collaborates within the Global HR to communicate, facilitate, and/or present HR programs and initiatives to client groups.
- Works with human resource service representative(s) to ensure accurate completion of ad-hoc employee changes.
- Assists with relevant HR administrative tasks as required.
- Have some fun

**Qualifications**

**Your Capabilities and Credentials**
- Proven influencer and collaborator, with the ability to provide guidance and support to business clients.
- Ability to commute and work at the Stantec offices in the Lower Mainland (Vancouver and Burnaby).
- Ability to quickly establish and build effective working relationships.
- Developed skills in coaching managers, facilitation, conflict resolution and relationship management.
- Valued for your agility and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and having a focus for action-orientation on results.
- Respected for balancing strategic and operational tasks with strong organizational and time management skills.
- Distinguished as a business partner who learns the business and takes an active interest in continually enhancing your business acumen.
- Demonstrated comprehensive understanding of the core HR competencies including but not limited to compensation, benefits, employment law, organizational development, talent development and training, mentoring/coaching/facilitation, recruitment and workforce planning and an overall understanding of HR policies and programs and other terms and conditions of employment, along with an understanding of HR best practices.
- Prior experience successfully operating in a geographically dispersed team is a plus.
- Regarded as an exceptional communicator and able to influence a broad and diverse range of stakeholders through effective relationships, verbal, and written communication.
- Recognized for your learning mindset, initiative, and ability to understand the business and challenges, and new and innovative approaches that result in improvements in team engagement, productivity, and organizational performance.
- Distinguished for an interest in con