Director Of Hr Solutions & Business Value

Requisition ID: 190218
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Purpose:

Scotiabank, a leading global financial institution committed to empowering its customers and communities, is currently seeking a highly skilled and motivated Director of HR Solutions and Business Value to lead the synthesis of HR strategies from various business units and functions, focusing on agility, human-centered design, and data-driven decision-making. In this role, you will play a crucial part in shaping the future of HR within our bank while bringing these methodologies and solutions to Canadian Banking.

Key Accountabilities:

As the Director ofHR Solutions & Business Value, you will oversee multiple facets of HR strategy, business transformation, and innovation. Your responsibilities include:

Canadian Banking Integration:

• Partner closely with and act as a trusted advisor to the Group Head, HRVP and broader executive team within Canadian Banking.
• Enable multiple HR priorities in Canadian Banking, such as talent and succession planning, employee listening, and year-end activities, to meet targets and deadlines.
• Define problems and champion a user-centric approach to develop and implement innovative HR solutions in a team-based setting.
• Use data to identify patterns and trends, measure the impact of HR solutions, and make data-driven recommendations to enhance Business Value.

HR Strategy & Portfolio Management:

• Synthesizing Business / Functional HR strategies, ensuring alignment horizontally across the Enterprise using a common format.
• Identifying strategic themes and patterns to prioritize, build and solve a portfolio of work collaboratively in a lab environment.
• Portfolio manage using agility, design, and data methods, including roadmap development, OKRs, progress monitoring, product demos, retrospectives, and stakeholder alignment.
• Identify synergies across cyclical activities to ensure a consistent execution of people priorities and strategic HR programs.
• Drive messaging and branding, internal stakeholder relations, campaigns, and quality around products and materials.
• Oversee communications, and events for the global HRBP group, ensuring that teams have clarity on our strategy and the work underway.

Agile Transformation:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement effective ways of working within our global HRBP group to help drive Business Value.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive roadmap to build team capability and enhance HR solutions using a 'build once use many' mindset to foster agility, learning, and speed.
• Lead a Ways of Working community of practice across the global HRBP group, promoting iterative and collaborative approaches to problem-solving, decision-making, and OKRs.
• Champion human-centered design principles to enable co-creation of innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of the businesses and Scotiabank as a whole.
• Optimize the use of technology and data, including generative AI, to enable and accelerate ways of working and HR solutions.

Team Leadership and Development:

• Lead a team of 2 direct reports, coach, and mentor others, fostering a culture of continuous learning, growth, and inclusivity to support individual and team development.
• Nurture a high-performance environment and implement a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops, and motivates the team.

Experience / Education:

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in management consulting, strategy, HR and / or corporate communications.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with teams and stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey complex concepts in a clear and simple manner.
• Strong portfolio management skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives concurrently ranging from tactical to strategic.
• Demonstrated expertise in human-centered design methodologies, including user research, prototyping, and testing.
• Proven track record in implementing agile methodologies, driving cultural change, and delivering measurable results.
• Proficiency in leveraging data and analytics to drive strategy and decision-making with curiosity to research and apply the use of generative AI.
• Highly resourceful with the ability to optimize effort, time, and outcomes to deliver high impact results.

If you are a strategic thinker, a transformative leader, and are passionate about shaping the future of HR within a global bank while integrating cutting-edge principles of agility, human-centered design, and data-driven decision-making, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Join us in our mission to revolutionize HR practices, drive Business Value, and directly impact the success of Canadian Banking and the enterprise.

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.
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