HR Solutions Partner

AstraZeneca; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 137,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex Benefits & Retirement Savings

4 weeks paid vacation

Personal Days

Job summary

AstraZeneca plc in Canada (Mississauga area) is seeking a seasoned HR Solutions Partner to provide high‑quality generalist HR support to managers, helping them lead teams and achieve business outcomes.

The role drives core HR processes with precision, handles day‑to‑day ER matters, and partners with HRBPs and CoEs to deliver talent, learning, reward, and workforce initiatives. A focus on data insights, digital tooling and workforce planning underpins decision making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field is required.
• 7–10 years of dynamic HR experience, with demonstrated experience supporting managers and business leaders.
• Coaching & Manager Support: Able to coach managers on day‑to‑day workforce concerns.
• Advanced Stakeholder Management: Accomplished in managing and influencing senior leaders and HR leaders.
• HR Process & Policy Interpretation: Skilled at interpreting HR policy and guiding managers appropriately.
• Project Delivery & Execution: Capable of delivering defined HR projects and activities within a team.
• Stakeholder Communication & Relationship Building: Builds relationships quickly across the organisation and maintains strong communication.
• Advanced Digital, Data & Insights Capability: Differentiated skill in using digital platforms, optimising processes and generating data‑driven insights.
• Process Improvement: Identifies improvement opportunities and implements innovative enhancements.
• Workforce Insights: Skilled at generating, interpreting and presenting workforce insights to aid in decision‑making.

Responsibilities

• Deliver generalist HR support to managers, providing policy interpretation, coaching and guidance on employment matters, workforce concerns, performance, attendance, reward and talent processes.
• Execute HR processes and annual people cycles (Performance Development, RPD, reward cycles, talent forums, data submissions, performance processes) accurately, consistently and on time for their assigned business areas.
• Lead day‑to‑day operational HR activities, including resolving manager queries, supporting case navigation, and ensuring compliant, consistent application of HR frameworks.
• Manage workforce concerns cases, including coaching managers, identifying and managing risk and escalating appropriately to HRBP/ER if risk profile increases.
• Deliver talent, compensation, and employee initiatives, including reward assessments, preparing people insights for talent review and workforce planning.
• Execute Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) activity business area, including gathering inputs, preparing data and actions, and partnering with the HRBP to operationalise plans.
• Provide accurate people data, insights and reporting to support decision‑making and highlight workforce risks, themes or trends.
• Find opportunities for streamlining operations and improving digital capabilities, proposing improvements and supporting deployment of new tools/AI-enabled processes.
• Contextualise global CoE offerings (L&D, Inclusion & Diversity, Reward, Talent, Wellbeing) for their business area and support adoption.
• Deliver learning, inclusion & diversity and leadership development initiatives, translating enterprise offerings into meaningful plans for the function and coaching managers on capability uplift needs.
• Lead or facilitate team effectiveness interventions, culture discussions and engagement sessions below LT level.
• Maintain strong cross‑HR collaboration, coordinating with HRBPs, HR Services, CoEs and other Solutions colleagues to ensure seamless service and a “One HR” experience.
• Build business understanding and stakeholder relationships, becoming a trusted partner for senior managers and a reliable connector into HR.

Skills

Coaching & Manager Support

Advanced Stakeholder Management

HR Process & Policy Interpretation

Project Delivery & Execution

Stakeholder Communication & Relations

Advanced Digital, Data & Insights

Process Improvement

Workforce Insights

Learning Agility

HR Generalist Support

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field

Job description

Role Purpose

The HR Solutions Partner provides high‑quality, generalist HR partnership to managers, enabling them to lead their people effectively and deliver business outcomes. The role delivers core HR processes with accuracy and consistency, resolves day‑to‑day workforce and ER matters, and delivers talent, learning, reward and workforce activities.

Acting as a trusted advisor, the Solutions Partner builds strong relationships with senior managers, offering coaching, policy guidance and practical support rooted in deep HR discipline knowledge. They generate and interpret people insights, highlight workforce risks and trends, and support Strategic Workforce Planning by translating data into actionable plans.

The role champions process simplification and digital optimisation, finding opportunities to improve how work gets done and supporting the adoption of global HR tools, offerings and AI‑enabled processes. They play a meaningful role in building capability through learning, inclusion and leadership development initiatives, and drive team effectiveness and engagement at the function level.

Working closely with HRBPs, HR Services and CoEs, the Solutions Partner ensures a seamless experience and connects managers to the right expertise at the right time.

This role reports to the Global HR Solutions Director/Solutions Manager, and works closely day to day with the Global HR Business Partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver generalist HR support to managers, providing policy interpretation, coaching and guidance on employment matters, workforce concerns, performance, attendance, reward and talent processes.
• Execute HR processes and annual people cycles (Performance Development, RPD, reward cycles, talent forums, data submissions, performance processes) accurately, consistently and on time for their assigned business areas.
• Lead day‑to‑day operational HR activities, including resolving manager queries, supporting case navigation, and ensuring compliant, consistent application of HR frameworks.
• Manage workforce concerns cases, including coaching managers, identifying and managing risk and escalating appropriately to HRBP/ER if risk profile increases.
• Deliver talent, compensation, and employee initiatives, including reward assessments, preparing people insights for talent review and workforce planning
• Execute Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) activity business area, including gathering inputs, preparing data and actions, and partnering with the HRBP to operationalise plans.
• Provide accurate people data, insights and reporting to support decision‑making and highlight workforce risks, themes or trends.
• Find opportunities for streamlining operations and improving digital capabilities, proposing improvements and supporting deployment of new tools/AI-enabled processes.
• Contextualise global CoE offerings (L&D, Inclusion & Diversity, Reward, Talent, Wellbeing) for their business area and support adoption.
• Deliver learning, inclusion & diversity and leadership development initiatives, translating enterprise offerings into meaningful plans for the function and coaching managers on capability uplift needs.
• Lead or facilitate team effectiveness interventions, culture discussions and engagement sessions below LT level.
• Maintain strong cross‑HR collaboration, coordinating with HRBPs, HR Services, CoEs and other Solutions colleagues to ensure seamless service and a “One HR” experience.
• Build business understanding and stakeholder relationships, becoming a trusted partner for senior managers and a reliable connector into HR.

Essential for the role

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field is required.
• 7–10 years of dynamic HR experience, with demonstrated experience supporting managers and business leaders.
• Coaching & Manager Support: Able to coach managers on day‑to‑day workforce concerns.
• Advanced Stakeholder Management: Accomplished in managing and influencing senior leaders and HR leaders.
• HR Process & Policy Interpretation: Skilled at interpreting HR policy and guiding managers appropriately.
• Project Delivery & Execution: Capable of delivering defined HR projects and activities within a team.
• Stakeholder Communication & Relationship Building: Builds relationships quickly across the organisation and maintains strong communication.
• Advanced Digital, Data & Insights Capability: Differentiated skill in using digital platforms, optimising processes and generating data‑driven insights.
• Process Improvement: Identifies improvement opportunities and implements innovative enhancements.
• Workforce Insights: Skilled at generating, interpreting and presenting workforce insights to aid in decision‑making.
• Expertise in at least one area of HR such as ER, Reward, Talent, etc.
• Learning Agility: Sharp learner with willingness to apply new knowledge; comfortable with ambiguity and pace.

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace that is free from discrimination. AstraZeneca is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing [e-mail].

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Annual base salary for this position ranges from 97,901.60 to 128,495.85.

AstraZeneca is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The range provided in this posting represents an offer pay range used in a majority of situations. The base pay offered will vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including the candidate's skills and experience, job‑related knowledge, and other specific business and organizational needs. In some cases, offers outside the range may also be considered to address unique circumstances.

In addition, our permanent positions offer an annual Variable Pay Bonus/Short Term Incentive opportunity as well as eligibility to participate in our equity‑based long‑term incentive program (if applicable to role). Benefits offered for permanent roles include a competitive Flex Benefits & Retirement Savings Program, 4 weeks’ paid vacation, and annual Personal Days. Fixed Term Contract/Temporary positions (excluding students) are offered a Contract Benefits Program.

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