Executive Counselor

McLean & Company; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading HR consulting firm seeks an experienced HR Executive Counselor in Calgary, Alberta. This role involves building trusted relationships with HR executives, delivering tailored advisory services, and facilitating strategic sessions to enhance client HR strategies. Ideal candidates will have extensive HR leadership experience and strong relationship-building skills. The position requires travel within North America and offers a dynamic work environment committed to diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in HR with 5 years as the senior most leader of HR / CHRO.
• Experience working with C-Suite and Boards of Directors.
• In-depth understanding of multiple HR functions.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with approximately 26 HR executive clients.
• Deliver advisory services through regular and ad hoc meetings.
• Facilitate long strategy sessions on critical topics.

Skills

Relationship building

Critical thinking

Coaching skills

HR consulting

Education

Undergraduate degree in related field

Job description

Overview

The HR Executive Counselor will work with clients to identify their HR needs, curate McLean & Company research solutions, and build / enhance client’s HR strategies to help them make the most of their McLean & Company membership. The Executive Counselor will advise, guide, and provide insights to executive HR leaders in delivering improved results by optimizing decision making, mitigating risk, and addressing the struggles and challenges they face on the path to personal and professional excellence.

Main responsibilities

• Building trusted relationships with approximately 26 HR executive clients across all industries and business models
• Delivering advisory services through regularly scheduled and ad hoc meetings, typically via videoconference, and serving as their guide to ensure full optimization of McLean & Company resources, tools and solutions.
• Facilitation of 4-to-8-hour long strategy sessions that may be in person or on-site at the client’s preferred location on topics identified as critical for the client (16 hours total per year per client). Examples include HR strategy, DEI strategy and roadmap, restructuring / organization design, creation of an employee value proposition.
• Active participation in all phases of the member lifecycle including prospecting, onboarding, delivery of ongoing services, growing the account and renewal.
• Evaluating client needs and developing custom initiative plans to help clients establish / evolve their HR strategy, achieve their objectives, and deliver on key initiatives.
• Host and/or facilitate business development efforts including proof of concept calls, webinars, roundtables, CHRO dinner events and presentations at annual forums and conferences.
• Collaborating with and coaching Sales colleagues in proactive account management, identifying growth opportunities and ensuring account health.
• Providing input into McLean & Companies research agenda based on client interactions and needs.
• Critical metrics for this role include account retention and growth of book of business.

Required Qualification

• An undergraduate degree in related field
• 15+ years in HR with 5 years as the senior most leader of HR / CHRO
• In depth understanding of and subject matter expertise across multiple HR function
• Experience in working directly with all members of the C-Suite and Boards of Directors

Preferred Qualifications

• HR certification (e.g. CHRP, CHRL, SHRM)
• Coaching certification
• HR consulting experience
• McLean & Company client experience
• Proven ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with clients and/or leaders at all levels across the organization
• Proven ability to participate in unstructured value-added discussions with clients and create new methods for a client’s personal success
• Collaborative, with superior listening, critical thinking, influencing abilities and verbal/written communication skills
• Proven ability to create frameworks around fuzzy or unstructured topics, to enable colleagues and clients with executable, practical solutions to HR challenges
• Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, flexible, rapidly changing work environment
• Intellectually curious about the effect of HR on the business landscape, with a passion for continuous learning
• Solid business instincts and a practical understanding of what makes companies tick and how HR professionals/executive teams operate

Other

• Travel up to 30% of the time within North America
• Client meetings may require working outside of the standard business hour

McLean & Co is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic including Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Disability/Veteran and are pleased to consider all qualified applicants. To that end, upon request, McLean & Co will ensure, to the extent possible, that accommodation be made available to applicants throughout the recruitment and hiring process