Sr. HR Business Partner

The role

You will lead employee relations, manager advisory, talent development, onboarding, and employee experience. You will also oversee benefits administration and execute immigration and global mobility programs across North America.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary People advisor to employees and managers across the United States and Canada.
• Manage employee relations matters including investigations, conflict resolution, and performance concerns.
• Coach managers through feedback, difficult conversations, and employment decisions.
• Develop practical guidance to help managers navigate employee matters.
• Design and deliver manager, leadership, and professional-development initiatives.
• Partner with the Resource Manager on talent reviews and individual development plans.
• Set standards and program design for the North American onboarding experience.
• Lead employee-listening, engagement, and employee-experience initiatives.
• Lead day-to-day benefits administration across North America.
• Execute immigration, work-authorization, and global mobility processes across the United States and Canada.

Required qualifications

• Eight to ten years of progressive People or HR experience.
• Strong experience across talent acquisition, employee relations, manager advisory, and professional development.
• Track record of building or significantly improving People programs, systems, and processes.
• Experience supporting employees and leaders across the United States and Canada.
• Experience developing recruiting strategies and overseeing full-cycle hiring.
• Experience coaching managers and handling complex performance and employee-relations matters.
• Experience designing or delivering manager, leadership, or professional-development initiatives.
• Working knowledge of compensation benchmarking, job architecture, workforce planning, benefits, immigration, and global mobility.
• Comfort using People data to identify trends, measure effectiveness, and guide decisions.
• Strong project-management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting employees in Quebec.
• Experience with Greenhouse or a similar applicant-tracking system.
• Experience implementing or optimizing an HRIS.
• Experience working within a global or multi-country People function.
• Experience building campus or early-career recruiting programs.
• Familiarity with consulting, utilization-based businesses, or other project-based organizations.
• PHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, CHRP, or an equivalent credential.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package

About the company

Artefact is a global data and AI consulting firm with 2,000+ employees across 34 offices worldwide. They partner with clients to accelerate digital transformation through data and AI.