Job Description

Are you an experienced HR professional with a passion for helping HR and leadership teams accelerate their people projects? Are you known for your ability to work with clients, engaging and effective group facilitation style, and 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 Principal 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.
• 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 Total Rewards (including job architecture, base pay, variable pay, non-monetary rewards)
• In addition to specialist knowledge in Total Rewards, this role requires a depth of knowledge in 1 to 2 of the below HR areas:
• Org Design/Structure & HR Structure
• Workforce planning & Metrics and Analytics
• Talent Management (succession planning, career pathing, performance management
• Experience working in large, global, multinational organizations with locations in the (North America, Central America, South America, EMEA and Asia Pac)
• A practical and strategic understanding of how HR professionals operate, combined with solid business acumen to have a measurable impact on our members’ operating environments.
• Proven ability to use data to drive people decisions
• Experience leading the strategic execution of large-scale Talent transformation projects
• 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.
• Proven collaboration skills with both internal and external key players to assess needs and scope requirements.
• Excellent listening, communication, and critical thinking skills to advise clients on best practices and next steps in calls.
• 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, preferred.
• CHRL, SHRM-SCP, or equivalent professional designation would be an asset.
• Ability to travel across North America ~20% of the time and qualify for a TN visa

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.

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