Consultant, Talent Acquisition – Strategy & Operations

Role Overview

• Analyze project impacts on stakeholders and lead end-to-end change management across Talent Acquisition (TA) processes and technology in your workstream
• Gather business requirements, scope the solution, testing, validation, documentation, and user training
• Create and maintain the change request development backlog and triage the list of Talent Acquisition JIRAs on weekly team calls by ensuring that objectives and deadlines are met
• Share updates to the leadership and stakeholders on a periodic basis
• Create and manage project schedules and planners
• Develop and implement change management communication plans
• Deliver training and communication strategies for changes in TA processes and technologies
• Continuously improve TA processes and create training materials, while managing change requests, creating the job aids / user training videos as reference training material
• Manage change with creation and management of Work Back schedule and Project planners
• Provide TA leadership of project status on a periodic basis
• Own the entire lifecycle of TA projects in your work stream and change requests in addition to providing post-launch maintenance for new changes
• Act as a champion and coach for the HR community on effective project management tools and techniques
• Be a resource person for the various stakeholders affected in the event of problems with the deployment enabling them to excel in their day-to-day deliveries
• Act as an agent of change to evaluate and communicate the impact of these changes on the various operational teams

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or any combination of relevant and equivalent training and experience
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in activities related to project management in HR
• Knowledge of the insurance industry is considered a strong asset
• Strong knowledge and master of project management and change management methodologies, tools, and best practices is preferred
• Experience leading teams and projects through agile methodologies
• Advanced skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint with strong attention to detail
• Ease in managing within a changing environment, ability to smoothly navigate and bring clarity to ambiguity
• Proven abilities to lead through influence with effective relationship building skills to all levels of an organization
• Strong communication and stakeholder management; candidates with bilingual proficiency preferred (French and English) to support nationwide collaboration and team communication strategies
• For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English speaking colleagues across the country.
• Naturally curious, ability to pick up knowledge and deliver relevant insight – diagnosing and simplifying complex problems and dependencies.
• Excellent communication skills – confidence to interact and present to senior leaders.
• No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model
• Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
• Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more
• Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)