AddressInternal Title: Associate Business Partner, People and Culture
Division: People and Culture (HR)
Work Status: Full-Time
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
About the Role:
Reporting to the Lead Business Partner, the Associate Business Partner (HR Advisor) would provide advice and guidance to business leaders on employee and labour relations, conflict resolution, performance management, employee engagement, compensation, and recruitment. The position plays a key role supporting the management team and is seen as a vital business partner. The successful candidate would support our News and Radio teams.
You'll be working on things like:
- Perpetuate a culture of high performance through effective leader coaching and feedback
- Advise leaders on the effective use of professional development plans, performance improvement plans, progressive discipline, and risk mitigated termination decisions
- Coach leaders on creating an environment where positive employee relations are foundational to the successful outcome of high employee engagement and retention in service of the successful delivery of business objectives, such as performance, engagement, progressive discipline
- Working with the Total Rewards team provide guidance on compensation decisions for new hires, lateral moves, promotions, off-cycle changes, merit, and market adjustments
- Investigate informal complaints, and deliver investigation outcomes to employees
- Interpretation of the collective agreement, build relationships with union representatives and manage grievances.
- Interpretation and implementation of relevant employment practices (e.g. Provincial and Federal employment and human rights legislation, collective agreements, labour law, etc.)
- Partner with Total Rewards, Payroll, Talent Development, Labour Relations, DEI, Recruitment, and the rest of the Business Partner team.
- Post-secondary education in Human Resources or related field
- 1-3 years of experience in an HR advisory capacity providing one-on-one coaching to business leaders on employee/labour relations, performance improvement, engagement, etc.
- Experience working a unionized environment is preferred
- Demonstrated consulting and coaching skills
- Ability to work autonomously and make decisions on a variety of HR related issues
- Knowledge of HR practices and principles
- Knowledge and experience with Federal employment legislation (eg. CLC)
- Strong interpersonal, relationship building and influencing skills
- CHRP designation or in progress an asset
- Ability to work independently and within a team in a fast-paced rapidly changing environment
- A positive attitude and customer focused approach that will enable you to deal with challenging situations with integrity, empathy and sincerity
Why Corus?
Corus is a driving force in the media industry with a diverse portfolio of strong brands that entertain and inform audiences through great storytelling and compelling content, reaching millions of people around the world every day.
We have a passionate drive to connect with the world around us: to express, to share, to be part of people's lives. Walk around our offices, our stations, our studios across the country and you'll feel it. You'll see it in action.
You'll see it in the open communication and the approachability of our people. You'll see it in our care for quality work and the interest in new, creative solutions. You'll see it in how we work with external partners, and how we care about our communities. These are all core to the values we commit to living each and every day - Win Together, Think Beyond, Make It Happen, Learn Every Day, Show We Care. Our values describe what makes us, and our workplace pretty unique - and amazing.
At Corus we value and actively involve the full range of what makes people unique in order to create a strong and innovative company where amazing people thrive. A company where people have the full opportunity to show their unique value and develop their potential. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, people of colour, people with disabilities, people from all gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities.
Corus is also committed to providing accommodations throughout the interview and employment process. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.
How to Apply
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now'.
- No phone calls please. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
