Talent Management and Transformation Advisor

Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc; Quebec; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Competitive retirement savings plan

Employee share purchase plan

Vacation program, wellness days, and P

Employee and Family Assistance Program

Ergonomic furniture program

Performance bonus

Discounts on iA products

Job summary

iA Financial Group is seeking a Talent Management and Transformation Advisor to help evolve practices that identify, develop, engage, and prepare our talent in a large, learning-focused organization. The role emphasizes collaboration, product ownership on select initiatives, and delivering practical HR solutions across departments.

We value a strong blend of French and English language skills and a hybrid work environment with opportunities for growth within Talent and Culture partnerships

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of HR and cross-functional project experience.
• Strong communication with delivery teams, managers, and executives.
• Analytical and synthesis skills linking talent issues to business priorities.
• Comfort with ambiguity, prioritization, and structured progress.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build trust with partners.
• Intermediate-to-advanced English proficiency; meetings with unilingual English-speaking stakeholders.
• Advanced French proficiency for meetings and daily communication with French-speaking colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead mandates and contribute to strategic talent management projects, from defining the mandate through implementation.
• Translate business needs into concrete, practical solutions tailored to managers and employees.
• Analyze practices, data, and trends to identify key findings and formulate clear recommendations.
• Collaborate with partners across Talent and Culture, HR analytics and systems, IT, learning and development, culture, employee experience, and business sectors.
• Engage and influence stakeholders to foster alignment and move initiatives forward.
• Act as a product owner on certain projects, ensuring the quality and consistency of deliverables while managing priorities, risks, dependencies, and timelines.

Job description

Talent Management and Transformation Advisor

• Other Possible Location(s): Montreal, Quebec

Are you interested in helping advance talent management within a large organization that values continuous learning and employee well-being?

As part of the Talent Management team, you will help evolve practices that enable the organization to identify, develop, engage, and prepare the talent needed to achieve its business ambitions. This role is for you if you enjoy building, transforming, and moving initiatives forward through collaboration. You will have the opportunity to enhance existing practices, including performance management, succession planning, internal mobility, skills-based talent management, and employer branding, as well as develop new ones.

This position is a great opportunity to showcase your skills and fully realize your potential within a caring and trustworthy company. Here, people and their development are at the heart of our priorities, fostering an environment that encourages collaboration and innovation.

What you’ll accomplish with us

As a Talent Management Advisor, you’ll be at the core of our mission. Here are the main responsibilities:

• Lead mandates and contribute to strategic talent management projects, from defining the mandate through implementation;
• Understand business needs and translate them into concrete, practical solutions tailored to the realities of managers and employees;
• Analyze practices, data, and trends to identify key findings and formulate clear recommendations;
• Collaborate with partners across multiple areas of expertise, including Talent and Culture business partners, HR analytics and systems, information technology, learning and development, culture, employee experience, and business sectors;
• Engage and influence stakeholders to foster alignment and move initiatives forward;
• Act as a product owner on certain projects, depending on your profile and skills, by ensuring the quality and consistency of deliverables while effectively managing priorities, risks, dependencies, and timelines.

What could accelerate your success in this role

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has seven or more years of experience, including experience in human resources and significant involvement in large-scale, cross-functional projects;
• Communicates effectively with different audiences, including delivery teams, managers, and executives;
• Demonstrates strong analytical and synthesis skills, with the ability to connect talent-related issues to business priorities and formulate concrete, practical recommendations;
• Is comfortable working with ambiguity, adjusting priorities, and moving forward in a structured manner even when all the answers are not yet known;
• Has excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly build trusting relationships with a wide range of partners;
• Has an intermediate-to-advanced level of English proficiency, as the role involves frequent meetings and presentations with unilingual English-speaking stakeholders;
• Has an advanced level of French proficiency, as the role involves meetings and presentation as well as day to day communication with French-speaking colleagues and stakeholders.

Why you’ll love working with us

• A work environment where learning and development merge with a collective pursuit of excellence;
• AI is in everyone’s hands, empowering you to increase your personal effectiveness while supporting the organization’s growth;
• A healthy, safe, fair, and inclusive environment where potential can be freely expressed and developed;
• The opportunity to work in a hybrid environment, supported by flexibility and access to inspiring and innovative workspaces.
• Competitive retirement savings plan;
• Employee share purchase plan;
• Vacation program, wellness days, and personal development days;
• Employee and Family Assistance Program;
• Ergonomic furniture program;
• Performance bonus;
• Discounts on iA products;
• And much more!

Company Overview

iA Financial Group is the strength of a company with a human side, with its over 10,000 employees. Together, we have earned the trust of our more than five million clients and 50,000 advisors who have chosen us for their insurance, savings, and wealth management.

With over $235 billion in assets, we’re a key player in the financial services industry in Canada and the United States. The secret to our success? Investing in you, one person at a time. Because, for over 130 years, we have believed that it’s by supporting our employees and surrounding ourselves with the most reputable leaders in the industry, we will continue to innovate.

At iA, we’re invested in you.

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At iA Financial Group, we support and celebrate diversity. We strive to provide a workplace that is recognized as inclusive for all, regardless of ethnic origin, nationality, language, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family situation, or physical or mental disability.

Please note that if you need help or assistance to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, write to us . Someone from our team will be happy to assist you.