Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers where your unique contributions drive success.
Ready to Make an impact?
Providing enterprise-wide HR leadership and strategic partnership to the Chief Development Office (CDO) and Pharmacy functions, the Human Resources Director plays a critical role in designing, implementing and accelerating our people plan strategy.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
- Translate enterprise priorities into integrated people, leadership, and operating model strategies that enable growth, scale, and long term value creation
- Become a trusted advisor to senior leaders, embedding workforce, talent, and change implications into strategic initiatives, M&A, and long range planning
- Lead the end to end people strategy, partnering with leadership to evolve compliant operating models, build critical talent pipelines, manage labour and employee relations risk, and foster a culture of patient safety, ethical practice, and professional accountability through periods of growth, transformation, and integration
- Anticipate future capability and labour risks through data and market insights
- Collaborate with Retail Operations, Talent Acquisition, HR Centres of Excellence and other lines of business on strategic initiatives
What you have to offer:
- Undergraduate Degree in a related discipline
- HR/CHRP designation
- Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience, specifically in an HR Director role
- Knowledge of both employment law and pharmacy regulations
- Strong employee relations and labour relations experience
- Proven success working with executive leaders in a matrixed organization
- Proven ability to provide business partnership and coaching to senior executives
- Strategic workforce planning experience, leveraging data to inform decision making
- Ability to foster relationships and collaborate across many Functions and key stakeholders
- Experience with mergers and acquisitions, integrations and divestitures
- Demonstrated experience supporting transformation, operating models, and aligning organizational design to strategy,
- Ability to travel to various locations across Canada (0-20% travel)
- Retail experience is preferred
Who we are
Sobeys is one of Canada’s leading grocery retailers, with more than 1,600 stores across all 10 provinces and banners including Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, and Lawtons Drug Stores. Our 128,000 teammates and franchise affiliates are passionate about delivering great food and exceptional experiences to our customers and communities.
Learn more about our story and culture:
Who We Are | Why Work With Us
Total Rewards
We offer a Total Rewards package designed to support teammates at work and in life. Depending on role and eligibility, teammates may receive health and dental benefits, retirement and savings programs including an Employee Share Ownership Plan, a 10% in-store discount at participating banners, virtual healthcare and an Employee and Family Assistance Program, learning and development opportunities, parental leave top-up, and paid vacation.
Sobeys is committed to providing a compensation structure that is flexible, equitable and competitive in the market to enable performance and growth. To learn more about this opportunity including the expected range of compensation in accordance with Pay Transparency Legislation where required please click the “I’m interested” or "Apply" button above. Individual compensation is determined based on qualifications, experience, and internal equity within the range provided.
Additional Information
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Sobeys is committed to creating accessible and inclusive hiring processes. We will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process.
Please note: Successful candidates will be required to provide documentation to prove their legal ability to work in the position during the onboarding process. Documentation will be assessed by the employer prior to commencement of work.
