Interim, Vice President, People and Culture - Toronto, Canada - MaRS Discovery District

MaRS Discovery District

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Health and dental coverage:

Highly competitive package for individuals and their family members, as well as access to the confidential Employee and Family Assistance Program.

Time off to recharge:

Starting vacation entitlement of three weeks in addition to a week-long holiday office closure and personal days.

Transit accessibility:

Indoor bike parking and showers along with direct access to Queens Park subway station.

Cutting-edge building:

Architecturally-inspiring, amenity-rich building housing some of the world's most progressive minds.

World-class events:

Access to hundreds of annual conferences, lectures and networking showcases.

MaRS Social Committee:

Year-round team-building outings as part of our social, health and wellness program.

About MaRS:

MaRS supports promising high-growth companies to scale their businesses globally, while tackling key societal challenges in areas such as Health, Cleantech, Finance, Transportation, AI, and others.

In addition to helping start-ups launch, grow and scale, the MaRS community is dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration, commercialization of discoveries, and driving ideas to impact.

We want you to be as successful throughout our recruitment process as possible.

Please get in touch with us if there's anything we can do to make your experience more accessible and inclusive, including accommodations for differing (dis)abilities.

About People & Culture**:

People are the key to MaRS' ability to execute on our vision, mission and values.

The P&C team partners with our leaders to build the systems, processes and teams that allow MaRS to scale, which will ultimately bring our vision, mission and values to reality.

About the role:

The Interim Vice President of People and Culture works with MaRS' senior leaders and their teams to enable MaRS' strategy.

The Vice President, People and Culture, plays a key role in shaping the organization's people strategy, coaching senior leaders, and supporting programs to foster a high impact, values driven culture.

Reporting to the CEO, this role is a member of the Senior Leadership Team and reports to the Board of Directors through the Governance and Human Resources Committee.

This role leads the People and Culture function and is responsible for P&C Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards and People Experience Programs, HRIS, Payroll and Operations, and plays a key role providing coaching to senior leaders to enhance effectiveness.

This role is currently a 12-month fixed term contract with an opportunity for permanent employment at the completion.

Key Responsibilities**:

Leadership: 40%

Responsible for enabling the organization's strategy through effective decision making and governance through their role on the senior leadership team.
Leads a team of high performing and highly engaged P&C professionals who provide the organization with advice, progressive people programs and support. The People and Culture team includes
Senior Director of People Experience, two Senior P&C Business Partners, Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition, Senior Associate, People and Culture and two P&C Program Managers.
Manages the P&C budget to be within plan.

Business Partner: 25%

Project manage the transition of MaRS' CEO in partnership with the HR Governance Committee of the Board of Directors by December 31, 2023 then plan and lead an effective onboarding experience.
Acts as a trusted advisor and coach to the CEO and senior leadership to understand their business strategies, then identify the people implications and effective leadership and people strategies required to enable business outcomes.
Coaches and supports a team of P&C Business partners to manage organizational design, workforce planning and employee relations.

People Programs: 25%

Oversees the program management and continuous improvement of innovative people programs focused on building a high impact and values driven culture, including:
Continuous Listening and Employee Experience

Performance Enablement

Checkins and Year End Reflection
Total Rewards base pay, incentive, benefits, wellness
Recognition & Milestones
Learning and Development
Leadership Development

People and Culture Operations: 10%

Leads the team who manages the daytoday people operations including: Payroll, Benefits administration, HRIS and analytics with a constant focus on automation and process simplification.
Oversees P&C data and analytics to have an objective, fact base for decision making
Ensures legislative compliance with progressive P&C policies.
Leads and is an escalation point for several vendors and contract negotiations (e.g. BambooHR, Pivotal Payroll. Canada Life, League, Morneau Shepell, RBC, Mercer).

Qualifications: