Interim Senior Director

4 weeks ago


Toronto, Canada LHH Knightsbridge Full time

IMMEDIATE INTERIM OPPORTUNITY

Interim Senior Director - Organizational Transformation

Reports: CHRO

Duration: 6-12 Months

Location: GTA - West

Some onsite required


Our client, a complex and well regarded higher educational organization is seeking an experienced professional to add capacity and capability to their team as they embark on a critical organizational transformation. You will in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team support the design, build, and implementation of solutions to optimize delivery of corporate services to recognize opportunities for automation drive efficiency, improve processes with an overall goal to enhance corporate service delivery and the employee experience ensuring our client remains competitive and recognized internally and externally as a great place to work.

This position is a great opportunity to use your experience in designing effective and efficient processes, structures, and operations and to bring your strong operational and process mindset to a large organizational transformation.


Key Accountabilities:

  • Partner with a Strategic Transformation team to assess the administration functions and roles in the organization.
  • Highlight roles and responsibilities that overlap and centralize these tasks to drive efficiency and improve service levels.
  • Provide key insights, define the roles, create consistency, create the organizational structures, and build a plan to execute these changes as part of a broader transformation.
  • Subject matter expert providing guidance for executives and senior leadership related to organizational development and effectiveness initiatives aligned to business objectives.
  • Provide oversight to a team of HR professionals providing coaching, development, and training to ensure a high level of engagement.
  • Promote new ways of working; consolidating, standardizing, and automating work to create capacity across corporate services functions.
  • Embrace continuous improvement; promote governance, and the use of data and analytics to drive accountability, learn and adapt to meet changing needs.
  • Take the lead on HR programs specific to the strategic transformation initiative to support organizational leaders through organizational re-design and change.
  • Facilitate the development and implementation of organizational and functional competencies to support organizational goals and competitiveness in the marketplace, while enabling the delivery of high value-add to clients.
  • Manage programs and projects to ensure timely delivery and cost effectiveness (analytics, tracking and reporting on operational performance and agreed metrics).


Education and Experience

  • Director-level HR experience specializing in Organizational Effectiveness and Organizational Design.
  • University degree specializing in Human Resources (or related field) preferred; master’s degree and/or CHRL designation are an asset.
  • Set up shared services models in complex environments.
  • Led organizational restructuring.
  • Strong project management skills with a proven ability to prioritize, plan and execute projects from envisioning stage through to implementation.
  • Strong consulting and coaching skills, including experience influencing senior leaders.
  • Worked in complex unionized environments is ideal.
  • Strong people leader experience and demonstrated ability to develop talent and build an engaged team.
  • Proven ability to influence and drive change aligning people strategy with business goals.
  • Ability to build and maintain collaborative, positive relationships with all stakeholders in a matrix structure.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills with ability to apply sound judgment and innovative solutions to challenging issues.



PLEASE SEND YOUR CV (AS A WORD DOC) TO: Interim.Applications@LHHknightsbridge.com (Subject: Job Title)


LHH Knightsbridge Interim Management is a service to help our clients address a wide range of scenarios including leadership support due to sudden departures, driving key change initiatives or leading transformation projects. Our interim executives step in with minimal downtime to meet specific objectives and deliver results. All have held senior positions in the past and have now chosen to offer their unique depth and breadth of experience to organizations on a limited engagement basis.


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Lee Hecht Harrison Knightsbridge Corp. is committed to providing equitable treatment and accommodation to ensure a barrier-free recruitment process. In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and our AODA policy, a request for accommodation will be accepted as part of the hiring process. If you require accommodation to apply or if selected to participate in an assessment process, please provide your accommodation needs in advance to the Recruitment Lead for this opportunity.


We thank all interested candidates in advance; however, only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.


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