Director Talent Acquisition

Sonepar Canada; Surrey; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Tuition reimbursement

Employee discounts

Life Insurance

RRSP matching

Job summary

Sonepar Canada is seeking a Director, Talent Acquisition based in Surrey, BC, to lead the national TA strategy and operating model, ensuring we attract high-caliber and diverse talent while delivering a consistent, fair candidate experience across Canada. You will partner with HR, business leaders, and operating companies to forecast workforce needs and drive strategic hiring improvements.

Responsibilities include end-to-end recruitment delivery, employer branding, multi-channel sourcing,

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years in talent acquisition with leadership of multi-region teams.
• Experience shaping recruitment strategies, operating models, and governance.
• Advising executives on talent availability and market conditions.

Responsibilities

• Lead national talent acquisition strategy and operating model for Canada.
• Partner with business leaders to translate workforce plans into hiring plans.
• Oversee end-to-end recruitment delivery from intake to closure.
• Set service levels and expectations with recruiters and partners.
• Develop employer branding and multi-channel sourcing.
• Drive inclusive recruitment with Indigenous outreach.
• Optimize recruitment technology and data quality.
• Coach and develop the TA team and foster a collaborative culture.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic recruitment

Stakeholder management

Talent acquisition

Sourcing

Employer branding

Education

Post-secondary degree in HR/Business/Commerce

CPHR designation (asset)

Tools

SuccessFactors

Recruitment technologies

Job description

Sonepar Canada is an independent family-owned company with global market leadership in the business-to-business distribution of electrical, industrial and safety products and related solutions. In Canada, we are represented by 6 locally managed electrical and industrial distributors and have over 100+ locations with coverage in 9 provinces.

We are a proud member of the Sonepar Group, the world's largest privately-held electrical distributor. The Sonepar Group is present in more than 40 countries with over 45,000 employees.

To explore and learn more about Sonepar opportunities, please visit www.career.sonepar.com

What’s In It For You?

• You will be joining a market leader with over 40 years of experience to help you elevate your potential.
• You will be working for the world's #1 privately held business to business distributor of electrical products and related solutions.
• A chance to get involved in the forever growing electrical industry.
• We house the largest inventory to better service our customers and deliver on sales commitments.
• An opportunity for career development across many business departments within our organization.

Scope of the Position:

The Director, Talent Acquisition leads Sonepar Canada’s national talent acquisition strategy and operating model, ensuring we can anticipate workforce needs, attract high-calibre and diverse talent, and provide a consistent, efficient, and equitable experience for candidates and hiring managers.

Based in Surrey, BC and reporting to the Vice President, Human Resources, Sonepar Canada, the Director partners closely with Human Resources, business leaders, and our operating companies across Canada. This role provides both strategic and operational leadership across talent acquisition, including employer branding, sourcing, selection, recruitment technology, governance, analytics, and continuous improvement, while leading and developing the Talent Acquisition team.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a national talent acquisition strategy aligned with Sonepar Canada’s business, people, growth, and succession priorities.
• Partner with business and HR leaders to translate workforce plans into proactive recruitment strategies, talent pipelines, and market-specific hiring plans, including tailored approaches for critical, high-volume, specialized, leadership, campus, and geographically challenging hiring needs.
• Act as an advisor to senior leaders on talent availability, competitive market conditions, sourcing strategies, hiring risks, and recruitment investment decisions.
• Lead end-to-end recruitment delivery, ensuring an efficient and consistent process from intake and sourcing through selection, offer, pre-boarding, and requisition closure.
• Establish clear service levels, accountabilities, escalation paths, and expectations for recruiters, HR partners, hiring managers, and external recruitment partners.
• Build strong partnerships across functions, regions, and operating companies, providing visibility into recruitment pipelines, progress, and hiring risks while acting as a trusted advisor on executive and critical searches.
• Lead Sonepar Canada’s recruitment marketing and employer brand strategy in partnership with Communications, Marketing, HR, and business stakeholders.
• Develop multi-channel sourcing strategies and sustainable talent pipelines across priority areas, leveraging internal mobility, direct sourcing, referrals, professional networks, educational partnerships, community outreach, social platforms, and selected agencies.
• Advance inclusive and community-based recruitment practices, including meaningful Indigenous outreach and partnerships aligned with business and community priorities.
• Optimize Sonepeople (SuccessFactors) and related recruitment technologies while identifying opportunities to standardize, simplify, automate, and continuously improve recruitment processes, data quality, efficiency, accessibility, and user experience.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Talent Acquisition team, building capability in strategic sourcing, stakeholder consulting, assessment, candidate care, technology, data literacy, and project delivery.
• Foster a national Talent Acquisition culture focused on collaboration, inclusion, accountability, customer service, continuous improvement, compliance, confidentiality, and Sonepar’s values and leadership expectations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Minimum 10+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience, including leadership of a multi-region or national recruitment function in a complex, distributed organization.
• Demonstrated experience building or transforming recruitment strategies, operating models, processes, technology, reporting, and governance.
• Experience advising executives and senior leaders and leading business-critical, professional, operational, and leadership recruitment.
• Post-secondary degree or diploma in Human Resources, Business, Commerce, Organizational Psychology, or a related field; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• CPHR candidate or designation is an asset.
• We offer a competitive salary, plus a full set of benefits, including:
• Flexible benefits program allowing you to choose from options that best fit you and your dependents’ needs. Benefit options include: Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Spending Account & RRSP matching.
• Employee Assistance Program, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Discounts and a career path.
• Regardless of your benefits program, you will receive company paid Life Insurance, and employee paid disability.
• Access to company sharing plan.

More information on Sonepar Canada:

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SoneparCanada

Sonepar places the planet and diversity and inclusion at the core of its vision driving our business ethos.

Today, Sonepar is the leading distributor of energy-efficient products, pioneering the energy transition and making sustainability a priority. At Sonepar, we firmly believe that every action is crucial in safeguarding the environment, driving our commitment to a more sustainable future. We have accelerated our own transition to efficient generation and use of electrical energy across our business and champion the innovation of sustainable solutions in the market.

This commitment is tangible in our detailed Global CSR report, to learn more please visit https://www.sonepar.com/en/commitments/sustainability.

Sonepar has been recognized as a Diversity Leader by the Financial Times’ 2024 Diversity Leaders ranking and was awarded GEEIS Certification in 2022. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming submissions from all candidates. We believe in creating a work environment where everyone can feel safe, use their voice, and know that they belong. Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) is a central focus of our global, strategic impact plan. We value diversity and inclusion in the workplace because it allows us to better meet the needs of the communities we serve. It helps us foster greater creativity, breadth of experience, and it’s essential to our success as an organization. All qualified individuals, regardless of race, ethnic or national origin, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity, disability status, gender identity, veteran status or any other aspect which makes them unique are encouraged to apply.

For more information about our Inclusion and Diversity initiatives, please visit https://www.sonepar.com/en/commitments/diversity-and-inclusion.

Sonepar is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes submissions from all candidates. Accommodation is available to all applicants upon request. If selected for an interview, please advise the Sonepar representative of your accommodation needs at that time. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their accessibility needs.