Manager of Talent & Performance

• Are you a true leader with a personal vision and a big-picture mindset?
• Are you a master at matching candidates to roles?
• Do you enjoy helping individuals and teams achieve performance goals?
• Are you a resourceful, dynamic, and driven professional with at least 10 years of experience in talent acquisition and development?

We’ve opened a role for a talented, entrepreneurial candidate to lead and develop our talent practice alongside the exceptional people in JLR’s Corporate Services team. You’ll be supported by a Platinum Club member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies program, 100% employee-owned firm that has a long-established reputation for quality services in multiple sectors, while you help support engineers, architects, and planners deliver world-class, innovative solutions that support community building and growth in our cities.

JLR is a creative, tight-knit, and mentorship-focused community with unique opportunities for driven people with tenacity and spirit. Our organization is made up of diverse employee owners with specialized expertise in a wide range of disciplines. Joining the JLR team means joining a dynamic group of innovative architecture, engineering, and planning professionals and support staff.

If you are innovative and collaborative, thrive when presented with new challenges, and are eager to take your career in new directions, then JLR is the right environment for you.

Your Role

Let’s talk about how your skills, experience, goals, and passions can find a home at JLR. Your role will include:

Talent Acquisition

• Staying abreast of the latest best practices and developing and managing strategies and processes related to talent acquisition, including sourcing, screening, selection, and employment agreements. This includes ensuring the People & Culture team and broad JLR leadership team can effectively communicate with candidates, including job postings, email and phone correspondence, conducting preliminary discussions and interviews, and extending employment agreements.
• Developing and implementing training tools to foster success in hiring across all markets and geographies.
• Partnering with the Marketing team to develop and enhance our employer brand.
• Collaborating with staffing agencies and talent networks.

Performance & Development

• Providing the leadership team with strategies and programs to foster the professional development of the company’s employees and their individual training plans.
• Guiding the leadership team through processes and providing support when performance improvement plans are required for specific employees.
• Developing, managing, and suggesting enhancements for the company’s career mentorship program.
• Developing leadership coaching strategies and programs to ensure our current and emerging leaders are culturally aligned with the company’s values and have the leadership skills to succeed.

Retention

• Developing compensation strategies and programs to ensure the attraction and retention of talent.
• Providing leadership support in interpreting and applying compensation strategies to specific individuals and groups of individuals.
• Assisting the company’s leadership in ensuring effective succession planning.
• Working in partnership with the HR Operations Manager to develop communications aimed at ensuring that the company’s various investments in compensation, benefits, incentives, activities, perks, and other retention tools are recognized and appreciated by candidates, current staff, and leadership.

Managing staff

• Setting goals and creating plans to meet them, including resource allocation and timelines.
• Ensuring team members have the necessary tools and resources.
• Encouraging team members to perform well, ensuring the team is aligned with the goals and addressing and resolving issues within the team as they arise.
• Monitoring individual staff and team performance and providing continuous improvement feedback.
• Ensuring team members comply with company policies and regulations.

Why Join Us?

We live, work, breathe, sleep, and thrive in the communities we build. We love northern Ontario and the glorious bounty of the natural world and we’re proud of our reputation and longevity in the National Capital and Kingston regions. Furthermore, we’re growing our presence in southwestern Ontario and all along the Great Lakes of Ontario.

We foster a friendly, welcoming, and team-oriented atmosphere that encourages innovation and collaboration. We have an established depth of technical and support resources that can efficiently and effectively deliver small and large multidisciplinary projects. We provide flexible career direction with opportunities to choose your own path and interesting and exciting assignments ranging in size and type.

Employee Ownership and Career Growth

• 100% employee owned
• Share ownership opportunities at all levels
• Merit and profit bonus program
• Competitive salaries reviewed annually
• Career Mentorship Program

Work-life Balance and Employee Wellness

• Immediate health and dental benefits
• RRSP/DPSP matching program
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working
• Parental leave top-up program
• Fun Funds to plan extracurricular social events

Community Engagement and Social Responsibility

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee
• Environmental Sustainability Committee
• Reconciliation Action Plan Committee
• Local fundraising and community building events

Application Instructions

Interested in joining our team? This posting is for a current vacancy, but we’re always open to great talent, even if it’s not exactly what we’ve posted. Send us a cover letter and resume outlining your skills, qualifications, and the specific experiences that make you an ideal candidate for the position by emailing careers@jlrichards.ca.

JLR welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

At JLR, each of us contributes to inclusion and we all have a role to play. Our culture is the result of our behaviours, our personal commitment, our curiosity, how we collaborate, and the ways that we courageously share our perspectives and encourage others to do the same. In turn, our environment inspires us to try new things, speak openly, and be bold. It brings us together in ways that help us stand out. Our inclusive culture empowers all of us to connect, belong, and grow.

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