Director, Human Resources Business Partner

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank in the Americas is seeking a Director, HRBP for Global Human Resources. This role is crucial in aligning talent strategies with business needs and regulatory requirements. The successful candidate will lead and support senior leaders to build resilient, high-performing teams while ensuring compliance with internal policies. Excellent communication, strategic influence, and people leadership skills are essential, alongside a relevant degree and experience in HR. This is an opportunity to impact the organizational culture positively.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5-7 years of relevant HR experience.
• Strong ability to perform in complex, high change environments.
• Ability to leverage multiple business tools for HR and change management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships.
• Provide talent thought leadership and people-related strategies.
• Champion the HR operating model and coach business leaders.

Skills

Strong communication skills

People leadership skills

Problem solving

Strategic influencing

Project management

Negotiation skills

Education

Undergraduate degree in business or human resources

CHRP or CHRL designation

Job description

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Requisition ID: 247336

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high‑performing culture.

As Director, HRBP for Global Human Resources, you will play a critical role in shaping the people strategy and partnering with senior business leaders to design and drive talent strategies that align with regulatory requirements, business priorities, and long‑term workforce needs. You will help build high‑performing, resilient teams in areas that safeguard the Bank's integrity and reputation, influencing decisions with global impact.

In this role, you will also oversee HR activities to ensure strategies and initiatives are delivered in compliance with regulations and internal policies. You will coach senior leaders on workforce topics and partner with business line leadership to address people needs by leveraging strategies, guidelines, and insights from Communities of Expertise (COEs) and HR Solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and drive a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Represent HR in strategic planning / decision making and ongoing meetings with the broader business line leadership team and participates in HR strategy development. Deploy strategic solutions to meet business objectives and provides strategic direction for the business.
• Provide proactive talent thought leadership and insights based on current internal trends and/or emerging external trends for business leaders. Provide people and workforce related advice, strategies, and solutions related to workforce planning, recruitment, learning and development, performance management, compensation, and succession planning using tools and assets developed by COEs. Leverage workforce data generated by HR Services to formulate people insights and recommendations.
• Advocate and champion the HR operating model within the business. Proactively contribute to the transformation of the HR operating model, with the aim of creating a globally integrated function that is scalable, flexible, and efficient.
• Act as the key point of contact for business needs, leveraging COE solutions to meet business objectives. Coach and develop leaders and managers to deliver people management capabilities. Partner and bring in resources from the COE to implement HR solutions that meet the distinctive challenges and needs of the business.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day‑to‑day activities and decisions.
• Create an environment in which their team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day‑to‑day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.
• Build a high‑performance environment and implement a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment; communicating vision/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5‑7 years of relevant HR experience.
• Undergraduate degree, preferably with a focus on business/human resources or work related experience.
• CHRP, CHRL or other HR designation, is an asset.
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills. Ability to deal effectively with all levels of the organization. Able to collaborate with HR stakeholders and business partners and coach managers. Actively listens and seeks to understand needs with genuine curiosity.
• Strong people leadership skills, problem solving, conflict management and negotiation skills.
• Strong ability to strategically influence and persuade senior leaders. Strong ability to effectively perform in a complex, high change environment while being a positive steward for the global HR team.
• Results oriented and able to effectively execute in a fast paced environment.
• Expert strategic capabilities to assess issues and their potential impact on the Bank’s image and reputation.
• Excellent project management skills to oversee execution of complex communications strategies.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, independence and collaboration, with an ability to build strong cross‑cultural and cross‑divisional team relationships.
• Strong business acumen and understanding to allow appropriate partnership with client groups.
• Ability to effectively leverage multiple business tools to define and execute the HR and change component of business strategies.
• Understanding how data relates to actions and results for an individual person or team.

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here . Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.