Are you an experienced HR professional with a passion for helping HR and leadership teams accelerate their talent projects? Are you known for your ability to work with clients, your engaging and effective group facilitation style, and your skill with multi-tasking? If so, we have an exciting role on our external client-facing HR Advisory Services team for you!
McLean & Company is the fastest growing advisory firm in the world. We are looking for a Director, HR Advisory Services to help us meet external client demand for our research-informed engagements which help HR leaders tackle their HR challenges. Key responsibilities of this fast-paced role will include:
- Providing high quality HR advice and guidance to McLean & Company’s HR clients based on our research, by video call or over the phone.
- Facilitating a variety of online and onsite workshops (group process facilitation) tackling talent-related projects for external HR clients and organizations across a variety of industries and sizes of organizations.
- Effectively building and managing relationships with internal & external clients.
- Work with our research team to identify how to further evolve the content and support provided in assigned areas of specialization.
- Leverage knowledge and experience to coach other analysts.
- Providing support to our commercial teams.
Why McLean & Company? McLean is a place where your voice will be heard – a place where you will see the impact of your work with our 30,000+ members. It is a place where you will find community and collaboration, where you will work with diverse individuals with their own unique stories and experiences. McLean is a place where success is celebrated by the whole team – a place where you are encouraged to stretch and grow.
Please Note: We are open to candidates located in Canada who are willing to support both eastern and pacific time zones. This role may periodically require after – hours work to meet the needs of clients in different time zones.
Our Principal Director, HR Advisory Services will have:
- 15+ years of experience in Human Resources, with at least 8+ years of experience in Culture transformation (including wellbeing, flexible work practices, employee experience, inclusion and belonging practices. M&A experience is an asset)
- In addition to specialist knowledge in Culture, this role requires a depth of knowledge in 1 to 2 of the below HR areas:
- Talent Acquisition
- Workforce planning
- Talent Management (including succession planning, career pathing, performance management
- Org Design/Structure & HR Structure
- HR technology
- Experience working in large, global organizations as well as multinational organizations with locations in the US is an asset.
- A practical understanding of how HR professionals operate, combined with solid business instincts to impact organizational landscapes.
- Experience leading the strategic execution of culture transformation projects
- Proven collaboration skills with both internal and external stakeholders to assess needs and scope requirements.
- Excellent listening, communication, and critical thinking skills to advise clients on best practices and next steps in calls.
- Demonstrated success facilitating in-person and online workshops by applying group facilitation techniques to command the attention and interest of diverse HR/leadership audiences and achieve workshop goals.
- Advanced presentation, needs assessment and client management skills
- Strong project and time management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
- Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, flexible, and rapidly changing work environment.
- Ability to work with sales and marketing teams to generate client demand for workshops and other client engagements.
- A specialized degree or diploma in Human Resources, Psychology or Business would be an asset.
- CHRL, SHRM-SCP, or equivalent professional designation would be an asset.
- Ability to travel across North America ~20% of the time.
McLean & Company, a division of Info-Tech Research Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic including Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Disability/Veteran and are pleased to consider all qualified applicants. To that end, upon request, ITRG will ensure, to the extent possible, that accommodation be made available to applicants throughout the recruitment and hiring process.#LI-CS2
