Associate HR Business Partner - Toronto, Canada - Hines

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    Overview

    When you join Hines, you will embark on a career journey fueled by vision and guided by leaders who set the standards of our industry. Our legacy is rooted in innovation and excellence, earning us a spot on Fast Company's esteemed annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies for 2024. Discover endless opportunities to grow and make your mark at Hines.

    Responsibilities

    As an Associate Human Resource Business Partner for Canada with Hines, you will partner and support the leaders of Hines Canada acting as one of the primary points of entry to HR, liaising with Center of Expertise (COE) HR groups as needed. You will work with the business leaders to drive HR compliance and talent agenda in support of growing and scaling the business and will be a champion of Hines' culture and values. You will partner with the Canada leadership team, helping to determine the most impactful HR-related initiatives to drive the business forward.

    The successful candidate will be highly collaborative and not afraid to challenge the status quo. You will be agile and able to deal with ambiguity while translating complex business issues into clear and coherent people-solutions that drive impact. The successful candidate will be passionate about helping people be their best at work and will have some experience with implementing best practice HR policies and processes across the employee lifecycle. You will also demonstrate the ability to not only react to HR-related needs, but to predict future talent needs and risks, bringing proactive recommendations to business leaders and HR managers. He/she will be a terrific coach to others, a positive role model of the Hines culture to employees and have high integrity when dealing with sensitive situations. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Manage the creation and updating of job descriptions when they arise
  • Work with Compensation team to evaluate total compensation and improve consistency across Canada
  • Work with teams to enhance their effectiveness and engagement, facilitating team-level interventions when needed
  • Ensure managers successfully onboard new employees; perform check ins during probationary period
  • Liaise with TA, HRIS/Payroll, and L&D to ensure technical and training elements of onboarding are complete.
  • Work with managers to conduct performance management reviews, given guidelines from Talent COE team
  • Identify talent issues before they impact the business
  • Work with leaders to identify ways to attract the best quality talent for open roles
  • Help the business manage and mitigate risks; Ensure managers and employees understand the intent of policies and adhere to them
  • Manage conflict resolution between employees, managers
  • Analyze pulse, engagement, and exit interview feedback to predict and mitigate future issues
  • Project manage HR Compliance including but not limited to mandatory posters, electronic notifications, handouts, etc.
  • Ensure Health and Safety Standards are being met and Hines is compliant
  • Qualifications

    Minimum Requirements include:

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field from an accredited institution or equivalent experience
  • Five or more years' experience providing Human Resources support in a professional office environment across several HR functions
  • Experience in execution of multi-functional projects and programs
  • Capable of connecting business goals to people management practices to drive the most impactful people-related investments
  • Ability to influence at all levels through clear, informed, and logical business justification and discussion
  • Strongly analytical, process-oriented HR professional with the humility and ability to regularly pivot from strategic to operational
  • Strong people management and people development skills
  • Operate personal computer and other office equipment
  • Ability to lift up to 25lbs
  • Closing

    Hines is a global real estate investment, development and property manager. The firm was founded by Gerald D. Hines in 1957 and now operates in 30 countries. We manage a $93.2B1 portfolio of high-performing assets across residential, logistics, retail, office and mixed-use strategies. Our local teams serve 857 properties totaling over 270 million square feet globally. We are committed to a net zero carbon target by 2040 without buying offsets.