People Business Partner Leader, Canada

Apple Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Toronto seeks a People Business Partner Leader to drive strategic HR initiatives across Canada. This role involves building and implementing a people strategy aligned with organizational goals, creating an exceptional employee experience, and managing a team of business partners. The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of experience, strong leadership skills, and bilingual proficiency in French and English. A focus on inclusivity and talent development is essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience as a strategic HR Business Partner.
• Proven leadership skills and resilience in driving initiatives.
• Ability to align people and organizational objectives.

Responsibilities

• Position the business in the wider context and anticipate risks.
• Enhance ideas and outcomes despite opposing interests.
• Develop talent to meet both career and organizational goals.
• Build effective teams through collaboration and shared objectives.

Skills

Strategic HR Business Partner

People Leadership Skills

Organizational Agility

Bilingual in French and English

Change Management

Job description

People Business Partner Leader, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Corporate Functions

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

Description

As Apple's People Business Partner Leader for Canada, you are an agile coach and trusted community steward to employees, leaders and executives across the organization. Based on the business strategy and a deep diagnosis of internal & external trends, you will build and implement the People Strategy together with your team. You will act as a liaison between Apple’s worldwide people vision and strategic priorities. You will ensure the specific initiatives and strategies are integrated and complementary to regional and worldwide priorities, and you will drive the adoption of a future-orientated work environment and engagement framework. With this, you are the ambassador of Apple’s global People vision. On a functional level, you will manage a team of People Business Partners to build a successful team with strong business impact and a culture of constant learning. Your work is systemic and uses resources from Apple’s wider People eco system to facilitate and provide an aligned people vision. You will work as a trusted advisor to senior leaders to create and implement solutions and recommendations in the People space. You are essential in building leadership capabilities and supporting leaders in creating a culture, the organization, leadership styles and the inclusive environment vital for people at Apple to do the best work of their life.- Design and implement critical initiatives to meet the short and long term needs of Apple Retail and our corporate site strategy in Canada- Create an exceptional employee experience, build a plan for it through data and observation- Consistently assess the organizational effectiveness of all aspects of the employee lifecycle by collaborating with the vital partners of the wider People team- Operate as an influential member of the Canada Leadership team

Responsibilities

• Position the business in the wider context: understands internal & external business operations and accurately anticipates risks, creating strategy that shapes the future and identifies problems that are central to the strategy
• Establish relationships of trust by having a proactive point of view by showing a genuine interest in others, acting with appropriate balance of confidence and humility, learning from both successes and failures, demonstrating personal integrity and ethics, earning trust through results, framing sophisticated ideas in simple and useful ways, persisting through adverse circumstances and having a history of delivering results
• Enhance ideas and outcomes that may be inherently in opposition of each other: handle tension between high level strategic issues and operational results, between internal focus on employees and external focus on customers, between taking time to bring together information and making timely decisions, between the need for change (flexibility) and stability (standardization)
• Developing Talent: developing people to meet both their career goals and the organizational goals; placing a high priority on developing others; developing others through mentoring, feedback, exposure and stretch assignments; encouraging people to continuously learn and develop
• Building Effective Teams: building strong teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals. Establishing common objectives and a shared approach. Creating a feeling of belonging and team morale. Developing open dialogue and collaboration amongst the team
• Collaborates: building partnerships and working synergy to meet shared objectives

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience as a strategic HR Business Partner
• Proven track record of people leadership skills
• Drive what matters: create alignment and focus; inclusive of connecting People initiatives to strategic objectives in order to drive impact
• Resilient and driven: ensures initiatives achieve their full potential, despite challenges or moments of ambiguity
• See around corners: the ability to keep one eye on the future of an organization while handling the myriad demands of the present

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual in French (CA) and English
• Demonstrated organizational agility: knows how to connect people across all levels of the organization to drive forward what matters
• Approach problems flexibly: navigates between challenging initiatives, responsibilities or priorities to assess the situation and consider the varying needs to generate a range of solutions
• Stay curious: demonstrates a deep curiosity about the untold or undiscovered story

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. Apple provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Apple is a drug-free workplace.