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Role Overview
As the HR Talent Advisor, Employee Experience you serve as a consultative partner to employees across multiple agencies within the Plus Company Toronto office. In this role, you will report to the Talent Director, Employee Experience and provide expert guidance on the entire employee lifecycle, interpret and enforce workplace policies, mitigate organizational risk, and champion cultural initiatives.
Some of the day to day responsibilities of your role will include but will not be limited to:
Employee Relations & Advisory Services
- Trusted Counsel: Serve as the primary point of contact and advisor for managers and employees on complex workplace matters, conflict resolution, and performance management.
- Leave & Lifecycle Management: Oversee and advise on complex life-event leaves (including maternity, STD/LTD), ensuring compliance, compassionate delivery, and successful return-to-work transitions.
- Onboarding: Welcoming new employees, supporting with orientation, ensuring new hires have the best first impression as part of the employee experience journey.
- Offboarding & Risk Mitigation: Manage resignations and exits, severance calculations, termination packages and paperwork. Partner with legal team when required.
- Policy Interpretation: Interpret, apply, and equitably enforce company policies and provincial employment standards across diverse business units.
- Cycle Management: Coordinate and facilitate the annual performance management cycle in partnership with the Talent Director.
- Manager Coaching: Upskill and coach people leaders on delivering constructive feedback, conducting performance reviews, and executing robust Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs).
- Culture & Engagement: Champion engagement initiatives, leveraging employee feedback, surveys and data analytics to drive a high-performance culture and improve retention.
- National Collaboration: Collaborate as a strategic partner on cross-functional national and regional Talent initiatives/projects, scaling HR best practices across our offices (including Quebec, Toronto, and Vancouver).
- Manage and respond to incoming queries in the HR general email box.
- Assist in conducting audits and maintaining necessary documentation.
- Partner with the center of excellence teams to strategize and execute needs for client groups.
- Stepping in to support team members when needed.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field, combined with minimum 3 years of progressive HR experience (moving into or currently operating at an Advisor level is advantageous).
- Robust understanding of Ontario employment standards, human rights legislation, and health and safety regulations
- Proven ability to coach, influence, and build trust with stakeholders and leadership teams.
- Comfortable leveraging HRIS data and metrics to identify trends and propose proactive, business-oriented solutions.
- Proven ability to translate complex HR policies and metrics into actionable business insights for diverse stakeholders. Acts as a skilled mediator in conflict resolution and serves as a trusted, empathetic coach to people at all levels.
- Detail oriented and committed to delivering high quality work
- Team oriented and enjoys working in a highly collaborative environment
- A highly entrepreneurial individual who enjoys thinking outside the box and likes to identify solutions when there are gaps identified
- Comfortable working with highly sensitive information and being able to keep information confidential
- Proficient in using Google Office
- Driven by a curiosity of leveraging AI tools to advance our clients work and objectives.
What’s In It For You
We Value The ‘whole You’
- An innovative and entrepreneurial work environment that promotes ingenuity and individuality - with the best of colleagues, and the best of clients
- Hybrid work models and flexible hours, plus a work from anywhere policy for short-term stays in other regions
- Generous Vacation starting at 3 weeks + 1 extra week over the holidays
- Agency summer days (exact policy differs per campus and agency)
- Modern, open co-working spaces with coffee & snack bars, located in great city neighborhoods, close to shops and restaurants and easy access to public transport
- Dogs allowed, dedicated Play Room to support families and Private wellness room (in select offices)
- Team social events - holiday parties, seasonal gatherings, weekly happy hours, inspiring speakers and more!
- In-house learning & development sessions and annual career and growth conversations’
- Access to internal network of opportunities across all agencies
- Internal EDI group(s), programs & initiatives across Plus Company and opportunities to be involved in employee resource group(s)
We invest in your health and wellness:
- Flexible benefits to support your individual lifestyle and life stage – with access to a personal wellness spending account you can use for a wide range of wellness expenses, including gym membership fees, pet care, education expenses, and much more!
- Comprehensive mental health support including access to a virtual mental health therapy clinic providing you with personalized therapist guided iCBT programs and live therapy, access to health clinicians 24/7, and a holistic array of other health and wellness resources to support you and your family.
- Dedicated play rooms for days you need to bring the kids and health and wellness rooms when you need a place to get grounded.
- A responsible sick & personal absence days policy designed so you don't have to worry the moment a personal obligation or emergency arises.
- Maternity leave top up program.
We’re humbled by the number of talented people who apply to work with us every day. And, we thank each and every one of you. Truly. We’ll reach out directly to those we’d like to meet for an interview.
To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation for all candidates, our interviewers are supported by an AI tool that securely takes notes during the conversation
Creating meaningful work means embracing different perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on age, colour, ability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. Not only are these provisions protected by provincial and federal law, embracing difference is what makes Plus Company what it is—and we wouldn’t have it any other way. We pride ourselves on our inclusive and accessible workplace. If you need any accommodations during the interview process to make it work for you, let us know.
By joining our team, you become part of Plus Company, a unique partnership of forward-thinking creative agencies. As a network, we unabashedly believe anything is possible. Why? Because possibility is what powers the big dreams and limitless drive of an entrepreneur. And entrepreneurial agencies are what we’re made of. A whole network of them.
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