Senior HR Business Partner

Humani HR; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Remote work

Team retreats

Professional association fees reimburs

Job summary

Humani HR is hiring a Senior HR Business Partner in Toronto, ON. You’ll partner with executives to align people strategies with business goals, lead change, and build scalable HR programs for diverse client environments.

You will balance strategic guidance with hands-on execution, traveling as needed and collaborating across remote and onsite client sites to drive outcomes for growth and people excellence.

Qualifications

• Seasoned Senior HRBP with strategic HR experience.
• Ability to balance client delivery and shifting priorities.
• Experience with labour relations and multi-province employment law.
• Strong executive communication and relationship building.
• Self-driven with accountability and attention to detail.
• Comfortable advising CEOs and senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor team members toward objectives.
• Manage large, complex client engagements with oversight.
• Drive growth through client expansion and retention.
• Expand accounts by delivering excellent service and trust.
• Model the company’s missions and values in all interactions.
• Apply analysis to diagnose issues and create solutions.
• Facilitate discussions with leaders to surface insights.
• Develop HR strategies aligned with client goals.
• Provide expertise on sensitive employee relations.
• Review and apply HR policies and procedures as needed.
• Execute priorities and strategic initiatives.
• Support operational excellence through documented standards.

Skills

Executive presence

People leadership

Strategic communication

Influence

MS Office Pro

Analytical thinking

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or related field

HR certification (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Senior HR Business Partner (Sr. HRBP)

Location: Toronto, ON

Humani HR is your modern thinking team of HR professionals. We are passionate about helping small and medium-sized businesses with their People and Culture. We take the stress out of HR by providing fractional HR support and consulting services. Our solutions are customized, on demand and scale with our clients' changing needs. We are more than just strategic advisors – we do the work, so our clients can focus on building their business.

Humani is a dynamic, fast‑moving environment where every day looks a little different. We work primarily remotely but as we value in‑person collaboration, from time to time, we work onsite with our clients, or travel locally or internationally. To learn more about us and our team, visit our website.

About The Role

As a Senior HR Business Partner, you bring a strategic perspective, sound judgement and a customized approach to complex clients and organizational challenges. You thrive in environments where leadership, clarity, and collaboration drive meaningful progress. You bring the insight and presence to partner with executives and founders, align teams around shared goals and deliver results that strengthen people and the performance at every stage of growth for our clients – whether an organization is sustaining momentum or scaling rapidly.

You are comfortable building HR policies and programs from the ground up and thrive in environments where structure is still evolving. Highly flexible and organized, you build strong relationships and communicate with the executive presence to confidently advise CEOs and senior leaders. You bring a solutions‑oriented mindset and are energized by solving complex people challenges across a variety of client environments and industries.

Strong labour relations expertise, including collective agreement interpretation, grievance management, and employee relations in unionized workplaces, is preferred.

You have a proven ability to guide organizations, leaders, and teams through change with clarity and confidence and executive presence. You balance strategic thinking with hands‑on execution and bring sound judgement to complex people matters. If this sounds like you, read more about what you’ll do, and the experience and skills you bring to this role below!

We are looking for a Senior HR Business Partner to join our team. At Humani, our hybrid work model means working primarily remotely, with onsite support at various client sites based on business needs. As such, local and international travel may be required from time to time.

What You Will Do

• Lead and mentor team members toward successful achievement of company objectives.
• Manage large‑scale, complex or specialized client engagements, coordinate shifting priorities, and provide direction and oversight to multiple team members to ensure timely, high‑quality, effective delivery of solutions.
• Drive company growth through client expansion, retention, and strong client satisfaction
• Expand existing accounts through consistently delivering excellent service both internally and externally by understanding the needs and building long‑term trusted relationships.
• Model the company’s missions and values in all interactions.
• Apply strong Needs and Systems analysis and critical thinking to analyze situations, diagnose issues, identify root causes, and develop effective solutions.
• Facilitate discussions with leaders and executives to surface insights, assess organizational challenges, and develop structured HR roadmaps.
• Develop HR strategies and recommendations that align with client business objectives.
• Model the leadership behaviors and competency mastery expected at the Senior HRBP level.
• Provide expertise on sensitive employee relation issues, understanding the delegation of authority requirements and risk mitigation strategies.
• Develop, review, and apply legislatively required HR policies and procedures as needed.
• Execute business priorities and strategic initiatives as directed.
• Support operational excellence through consistent processes, documentation, and standards the company sets.

Your Experience

• As a seasoned Senior Level HR Business Partner with strategic HR experience, you bring sharp judgement, strong people leadership, and solid business acumen to your role.
• Proven ability to balance client delivery, team capacity, and shifting business priorities.
• Skilled in managing complex client portfolios while tailoring approaches to diverse client needs.
• Mentors and influences team members to elevate their growth and performance and leverages team strengths to maximize efficiency and effectiveness.
• Committed to continuous learning and competency development, actively seeking feedback and applying lessons learned to improve impact.
• Communicates with executive presence and influence, building credibility with leaders and navigating difficult conversations to drive breakthrough outcomes.

Your Skillset & Credentials

• A degree or diploma in HR or related field.
• Professional HR designation is preferred.
• Labour relations/union experience, including collective bargaining is a strong asset.
• Strong understanding of employment law across multiple provinces is preferred.
• Proactive self-management: You are expected to be self‑driven, managing your workload and meeting competing deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Accountability and commitment to excellence: Consistently delivers high‑quality, client‑ready work with strong attention to detail. Takes ownership of errors and ensures work is delivered on time and within budget.
• Problem Solving: Consultants absorb a great deal of information about the client's business, sometimes working with limited information, as such, you bring a keen ability to apply critical thinking, analyze insights, and put together solutions customized to the client’s objectives.
• Strategic Communication and Influence: Engages effectively with diverse audiences-- from executives to frontline employees—adapting communication style to meet audience needs and strengthening leadership awareness across the organization.
• Technology: Ability to quickly learn new tools and platforms. Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and exceptional spreadsheet and presentation‑building skills. Adaptability is essential, as our clients use a wide range of software.
• Agility and adaptability: You thrive in change and ambiguous environments by maintain flexibility, resilience and composure while pivoting yourself to meet evolving demands.

Why Join Humani – A workplace designed for your growth

We recognize the level of expertise this role requires, and we offer a comprehensive compensation package and benefits in return, some of which include:

• Opportunity for meaningful career growth and client impact, where your unique background and experience are welcomed and valued.
• Base salary $90,000-$115,000 with potential to earn up to 10-25+% of base salary through our annual performance‑based bonus program (Total compensation up to $99,000-$140,000+).
• Paid time off (4 weeks' vacation, 5 wellness days and public holidays observed).
• Health Benefit Plan and Retirements Savings/Match program.
• Primarily remote work with opportunities for in‑person relationship building through company‑wide retreats and local team events.
• Your Professional HR association fees are reimbursed.

What you can expect during our Recruitment Process

Our hiring process is designed to give all candidates a realistic preview of what it is like to work in a consulting environment. The full process typically takes 3-4 weeks (often sooner), and we maintain clear, timely communication at each stage. Successful candidates will move through:

• An initial screening interview
• A take home exercise
• A secondary interview
• A final case study discussion

At Humani, we are in the business of helping our clients build incredible workplaces, so it is important that we do the same. We commit to building and fostering an environment where our team feels included, valued, and heard. We believe that a strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion enables us to make the world better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.

We take a human‑led approach to our recruitment process; however, from time to time, AI‑supported tools are used to help us. All hiring decisions are made by humans.