Strategic HR Partner: Leadership, Change & People Strategy

LifeLabs LP; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 96,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

LifeLabs is seeking an HR Business Partner to provide strategic human resources partnership to leaders and drive people-focused solutions that enable business goals. As a trusted advisor, you will enhance organizational effectiveness, build leadership capability, coach leaders, and support a high-performance culture, with a hybrid work model requiring at least three days on-site.

The role emphasizes strategic problem solving, workforce planning, and collaboration with ER/LR teams to address

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of progressive HR Business Partner experience.
• University degree.
• Proven track record of building relationships with leaders, with the ability to provide robust recommendations, coach, influence, and drive change.
• Well-developed consulting skills with strong problem identification and resolution capabilities.
• Experience using data and analysis to generate insights that support decision-making.
• Strategic thinker with demonstrated business and financial acumen.
• Experience with organizational design, talent management, and change management.
• Strong communication skills with experience communicating with senior leaders.
• Experience working within a unionized environment is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to leaders by providing insights, strategic and consultative advice, and coaching on people matters.
• Partner with leaders to understand business priorities, identify people implications, and translate those priorities into integrated HR strategies and solutions.
• Identify emerging people issues and trends to inform decision-making.
• Break down problems and analyze data and information to provide insights and recommendations, partnering with HR Centres of Expertise as required.
• Assess people and organizational issues, balancing business priorities, employee considerations, organizational risk, and HR policy to develop and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Partner with business leaders in delivering the People and Culture strategy, executing the strategy and plan in alignment with broader HR and Centre of Expertise (COE) teams.
• Guide, coach, and lead delivery within assigned business functions of Corporate HR initiatives, including DEI, Performance, Talent, and Engagement.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and participate in HR projects.
• Partner with the Employee and Labour Relations team to support the success of ER/LR programs and initiatives.
• With guidance from the ER/LR team, address complex employee relations issues within assigned business functions.
• Partner with the ER/LR team to ensure findings from investigations are understood by business leaders, implementation plans are developed in partnership with groups across HR, and results and impacts are assessed.
• Work with partners across HR to develop and implement integrated talent strategies and solutions to support the business in attracting, developing, and retaining the talent needed to meet current and future business needs and address key talent priorities.
• Support leaders in building employee capabilities and enabling team performance.
• Support succession planning and leadership development initiatives.
• Lead workforce planning efforts to ensure the right talent is in place to support future business needs.
• Champion Corporate HR culture and employee experience initiatives and partner with the Talent and Engagement team to identify and incorporate the specific needs of business functions.
• Partner with leaders to drive engagement action planning.
• Provide coaching and guidance to managers on leadership practices.
• Identify, assess, develop, and evaluate overall business impacts, risks, and change management strategies associated with achieving business plans.
• Develop, design, and lead organizational and work redesign efforts for business units.
• Identify change management strategies that enhance adoption and minimize disruption.

Skills

HR partnership

Coaching

Consulting

Data analysis

Strategic thinking

Organizational design

Change management

Leadership communication

Education

University degree

Job description

LifeLabs is seeking an HR Business Partner to provide strategic human resources partnership to leaders and drive people-focused solutions that enable business goals. As a trusted advisor, you will enhance organizational effectiveness, build leadership capability, coach leaders, and support a high-performance culture, with a hybrid work model requiring at least three days on-site.

The role emphasizes strategic problem solving, workforce planning, and collaboration with ER/LR teams to address