Join Riverside Natural Foods Ltd., a Canadian-based, family-owned, and globally operating business, committed to leaving the world better than we found it. As a B-Corp certified, Triple-Bottom Line company, we proudly manufacture nutritious, 'better-for-you' snacks such as MadeGood and GOOD TO GO. We value teamwork, humility, respect, ownership, adaptability, grit, and fun.
We're on an ambitious mission to double our business by 2027, and we need talented individuals like you to help us reach new heights. At Riverside, you'll have the opportunity to chart your own path to success while contributing to ours. We believe anything worth doing is worth doing right, and our values will guide us through the rugged terrain – and yes, it will get rough. But that's what makes the journey worthwhile.
So, lace up your boots and let's tackle the climb together.
You can learn more about us at www.riversidenaturalfoods.com.
The People & Values Business Partner – Operations is a strategic, proactive, and forward-looking partner to enterprise and functional leadership teams. This role plays a critical part in enabling Riverside's growth by strengthening organizational design, building future-ready capabilities, and scaling people practices that support high-performing corporate teams.
As Riverside continues to scale across functions and geographies, the HRBP partners closely with leaders to align people strategies with business strategy, guide organizational and operating model evolution, and ensure culture, leadership, and talent systems enable execution, collaboration, and sustainable performance.
This role embodies Riverside's four interconnected P&V partnership roles:
- Culture & Talent Champion
Key Responsibilities
Align structure, capabilities, and talent with enterprise strategy and growth priorities.
- Build and deliver people strategies that enable business growth, enterprise effectiveness, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Partner with functional leaders to align organizational design, role clarity, and workforce planning with evolving business needs.
- Advise on span of control, decision rights, and operating model effectiveness to improve speed, accountability, and alignment.
- Integrate people priorities into annual planning, operating rhythms, and long-range business strategy.
- Support leadership capability development and succession planning to ensure bench strength for current and future enterprise needs.
Guide corporate teams through scale, complexity, and organizational evolution.
- Lead and support people- and process-focused transformation initiatives across office and enterprise teams.
- Drive adoption of new operating models, ways of working, and cross-functional collaboration practices.
- Partner with leaders to clarify roles, responsibilities, and governance to reduce friction and improve execution.
- Build change readiness by supporting leaders through communication, engagement, and alignment strategies.
- Enable consistent employee experience during periods of growth, transformation, or structural change.
- Culture & Talent Champion
Build strong leaders, engaged teams, and a culture of accountability, inclusion, and performance.
- Champion Riverside's purpose, values, and leadership behaviors across corporate teams.
- Partner with leaders to identify, develop, and retain high-potential talent and critical enterprise capabilities.
- Support talent reviews, succession planning, and leadership development for managers and senior leaders.
- Strengthen performance management, feedback, and development practices to reinforce clarity, accountability, and growth.
- Leverage engagement, performance, and talent data to diagnose challenges and design targeted interventions.
Build scalable, efficient people processes that support enterprise growth.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to support hiring strategies for specialized, professional, and leadership roles.
- Strengthen onboarding, performance management, and development processes to ensure consistency and clarity across functions.
- Advise and guide leaders on compensation decisions to ensure fairness, internal equity, and alignment with Riverside's compensation frameworks and principles
- Ensure compliance with employment legislation and internal policies, proactively managing employee relations matters.
- Partner with P&V Centers of Excellence like L&D to deploy scalable, enterprise-aligned people programs.
- Enable consistent application of people practices across functions and geographies.
What Success Looks Like
Within 6–12 months, the HRBP will:
- Be a trusted, embedded partner to corporate and functional leaders.
- Improve organizational clarity through stronger role design, operating models, and decision frameworks.
- Strengthen leadership capability through coaching, feedback, and targeted development.
- Establish talent systems that improve succession readiness, performance differentiation, and retention.
- Successfully support organizational and people transformations tied to business growth.
- Build strong, high-trust relationships with leaders and employees across the enterprise.
Qualifications & Experience
- 5+ years of progressive HR experience, including direct business partnering or HR advisory roles.
- Experience supporting operations teams
- Demonstrated capability in organizational design, change management, and talent development.
- Strong coaching and influencing skills with leaders at multiple levels.
- Proven success supporting growth, scale, or transformation in office-based environments.
- Data-driven decision-making skills and comfort using people and business insights.
- Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong alignment with Riverside's purpose, values, and operating principles.
Who You Are
- A strategic HR partner who understands how people systems enable enterprise performance.
- Comfortable navigating complexity, ambiguity, and cross-functional dynamics.
- A trusted advisor who balances challenge and support with credibility.
- A coach who helps leaders grow, align, and perform at their best.
- A change leader who enables scale without losing culture.
- A culture steward who helps teams thrive while delivering results.
At Riverside, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation and job posting practices. The range above reflects the target compensation for the position at the time of posting. Exact compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education, and training, as well as other organizational needs, while balancing internal equity.
What we expect:
- Values-led: You'll be a member of a thoughtful and compassionate team that prioritizes respect, teamwork and resourcefulness along with a good dash of fun. Sometimes, even making granola bars is hard, and life's too short to take ourselves so seriously that we don't enjoy the journey.
- Unparalleled experiences and opportunities: We're still determining who we are and what we can be. Help us shape what this organization will look like and what we'll offer the world, into the future. This means rolling up your sleeves and sometimes building the process – fast! – while employing it. At Riverside, progress occasionally means proceeding imperfectly, and we're okay with that, as long as we're staying true to our values and learning and improving along the way.
- Access to everyone: We're a flat organization with few silos which means you'll have full access to everyone from our founders to our production staff. Even when employees dress up, they wear steel-toed shoes. So don't be shy. Speak up, share your ideas and go places you normally wouldn't – like the plant, or the boardroom.
- Personal development: We'll support and empower you to chart your own path and reach any heights you set for yourself. Career paths at Riverside are carved by the people walking on them, not dictated by leaders. Count on us to give you the training and tools to grow and progress.
- Gratitude: As a growing business, we can't always offer formal recognition like awards programs, but we do show our true gratitude and appreciation. At Riverside, we're all in this together and we value you.
- Be a Riverside Brand Ambassador: Stay relentlessly close to our consumers and represent the brand in every interaction, decision, and deliverable. Bring the consumer voice into your work by protecting product quality, availability, and experience, acting early when standards slip, and delivering consistent value that earns trust, advocacy, and long-term brand love.
What We Offer:
- Values-led: We don't cut corners or step on anyone or anything on our way to our summit. There is no winning at all costs here. Every step you take must align with our values, no compromises.
- Courageous determination: As a family-run, rapidly growing business, we are often challenged to find ways to deliver that aren't obvious or easy. You must be willing to try, ask and answer challenging questions, test and learn, turn over every stone, keep moving forward and help us find a way through. Resourcefulness and grit will be your constant companions at Riverside and will serve you well.
- Humility: We're a small (but growing) fish in a sea of whales and sharks. We know the products we offer are some of the healthiest and most sustainable, but we don't brag about it, and know we have a steep path ahead. We pride ourselves in being respectful and supportive of others while shining brightly through our innovative, high-quality products. There isn't one superstar at Riverside. We take turns leading the way as we climb to the summit.
- Continuous improvement: As a learn-as-we-go organization, we rely on each other to continuously improve everything we touch to make it better, more efficient, more sustainable, and more endearing to customers, consumers, employees, vendors, partners and the community. We own our mistakes and learn from them as we wind our way to the top.
Wait! There's more!
- Immerse yourself in our comprehensive benefits program, with Riverside taking care of the costs!
- RRSP matching or 401k matching for an empowered financial journey
- Eligibility to participate in Riverside's Profit Sharing Plan
- Join Employee-Led Resource Groups (ERGs) championing mental health, sustainability, diversity, women, and LGBTQ+ rights
- Develop your career further through our Riverside University program and with our Tuition Reimbursement Program
- An open concept work environment that embodies our Values
How to Apply:
If you have the commitment to excellence, the energy, the attitude and experience we need, then please submit your resume to careers(AT)riversidenaturals.com with the job title you are applying for in the subject line or click the apply button!
Riverside Natural Foods Ltd. is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you have a disability and require accommodation in the interview process, please let us know when you apply. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, due to volume, please note that only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Disclaimer: As part of our recruitment process, we may use technology-assisted tools, including automated systems, to support the review and assessment of applications. These tools do not make final hiring decisions. All decisions related to screening, interviewing, and selection are made by our Talent Acquisition and hiring teams.
