Human Resources Manager

Position Snapshot
Business areas: Nestlé Canada
Job title: Human Resources Manager (Factory)
Location: Toronto, ON located at 72 Sterling Rd, Toronto, ON M6R 2B6

What to Expect:
Join our team as an HR Manager for our Confectionary (Chocolate) Factory, where you will play a key role in ensuring the achievements of our HR team and programs. Reporting to the Regional Human Resources Manager, you will provide comprehensive Human Resources services to both hourly and salaried factory-based employees. As a member of the site leadership team, you will lead HR functions within a unionized environment and implement people plans that directly contribute to the success of our business. This role requires expertise in People Performance & HR, including labour relations, and offers the opportunity to represent the complete HR Service/Value Chain.

A little bit about us:

While Nestlé is known for KitKat, Gerber, Nescafe, and Häagen-Dazs, our recipe for success comes down to one thing: our people.

We strive to lead a people-focused culture that empowers employees to bring their authentic selves to work each day. There are 3,000+ members of Nestlé Canada celebrated for taking action using agility, courage, and trust to find solutions that benefit the business or greater good. We’re a team of changemakers, who are curious and challenge the status quo, that take risks that will help drive us forward.

Our focus is not only on nourishing our customers, but also about enriching you. We know that empowerment leads to strong employee engagement, a great work culture, and motivated employees.

A day in the life:
As an HR Manager, you will play a pivotal role in employee engagement, labour relations, and HR process management. Your responsibilities will include:

• Contribute to & Execute HR Strategy: Implement People Strategies to attract, develop, and retain employees, contributing to the execution of the business plan, and driving the flawless execution of global, market, and local HR Initiatives.
• Labour Relations: Internal lead on labour relations issues and responsible for timely information on employee relation matters. Ensure appropriate interpretation, application, and administration of collective agreement. Oversees best practices and responsible fiscal management of grievances, arbitrations and other dispute resolution processes. Corporate & legal support is provided for labour negotiations & arbitrations.
• Factory HR Processes: Oversee all HR activities, including the successful implementation of recruitment and selection strategies, ensuring compliance with current government legislation, Nestlé policies and procedures, and adherence to the Collective Agreements. Responsible for oversight of the payroll function and management of pension and benefit administration, with an emphasis on the importance of payroll accuracy and data accuracy.
• Organizational Design & Development (OD&D): Manage effective organizational transformation and change projects, shaping the culture to align with Nestlé goals & initiatives, and supporting & coaching line managers in the implementation of core people processes.
• Performance & Talent Management: Ensure that Performance and Talent Management drive the achievement of business goals through objective and development plan setting, performance calibration, and talent development.
• Employee Engagement: Establish and maintain effective working relationships with managers, employees, and their representatives, fostering a productive, open, empowering, safe, and equitable culture and environment.
• Factory Training and Compliance: Ensuring compliance with mandatory annual Compliance to work trainings on Nestle policies and procedures, leading skills forecast strategy, and overseeing training governance and efficiency in training processes.
• Health and Wellness: Partner with the Health and Wellness Team to provide support for employees dealing with medical-related issues, including claims, disability management, legal compliance, STD/LTD/WSIB, and the management of modified work and accommodation processes.

What will make you successful?
As the successful candidate, you will possess a strong commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace culture, while ensuring fair and equitable HR processes. You will be collaborative, action-oriented, and adept at navigating complex environments. You will ideally have:

• 5+ years of progressive experience in Human Resources in a unionized environment, preferably in manufacturing sector.
• Strong expertise in Labour Relations, including comprehensive knowledge of employment law and its interpretation.
• Experience with Learning & Development, Employee Relations, Compensation & Benefits, Recruitment/Resourcing, Performance Management.
• Proven experience in coaching and developing of people.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Professional demeanor, confidentiality, and sound judgment are essential.
• Proficiency with Windows based applications including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Ability to master other HR specialized software (such as Success Factors, Taleo, Kronos, etc.).
• Professional HR designation and additional industrial relations training would be a significant advantage.

Join a welcoming and supportive team that fosters a culture of coaching and mentoring, providing ample opportunities for your future development and career progression.

What you need to know

We will be considering applicants as they apply, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

Nestlé Canada is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. We welcome qualified applicants to bring their diverse and unique experiences as a result of their education, perspectives, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.

If you are selected to participate in the recruitment process, please inform Human Resources of any accommodations you may require. Nestlé will work with you in an effort to ensure that you are able to fully participate in the process.