Canada
Action needed. Add to profile. With extensive experience in human resources leadership and project management across multinational environments, I have a proven track record of driving organizational success, optimizing HR operations, and delivering transformative people strategies. Here’s how I can add value to your organization: ✦✦✦ Key Strengths ✦✦✦ ◆ Strategic HR Leadership & Change Management: Led diverse HR teams across Canada, the U.S., and Trinidad, delivering multi-year people strategies focused on leadership development, employee engagement, and ED&I. My ability to drive alignment between HR initiatives and organizational goals has consistently produced measurable business outcomes. ◆ Operational Excellence & Process Improvement: Streamlined HR core services to enable process enhancements for manufacturing and corporate teams. Successfully implemented projects like myHR (HRIS) and introduced innovative talent management programs that strengthened organizational capabilities and boosted workforce efficiency. ◆ Mergers, Acquisitions & Organizational Design: Played a pivotal role in navigating acquisitions, divestitures, and plant closures, ensuring smooth transitions and cultural integration. Developed workforce strategies that supported seamless mergers while aligning processes and resources for optimal performance. ◆ Labor Relations & Employee Advocacy: Resolved complex labor relations issues and fostered workplace harmony through tailored strategies for remote and fly-in-fly-out sites. My expertise in collective bargaining and employee advocacy has consistently elevated workforce satisfaction and minimized HR risks. ◆ Budget Management & Resource Optimization: Administered HR budgets exceeding $1M with precision and strategic oversight. Leveraged data-driven insights to optimize resource allocation, driving improved ROI and aligning spending with business objectives. ◆ Employee Development & Leadership Support: Delivered training and succession planning initiatives that enhanced leadership capabilities and strengthened the talent pipeline. Provided expert counsel to senior leadership, influencing key decisions during pivotal projects and corporate transformations. With a passion for empowering teams, driving operational excellence, and delivering impactful HR strategies, I am eager to bring my expertise and leadership to a forward-thinking organization. Connect with me!
• Evaluated organizational readiness for The Negotiations Collective, facilitating a smooth transition to an enterprise-modeled L&D service provider. • Designed a comprehensive delivery framework to enhance learning and development initiatives. • Redesigned external materials to align with the new strategic vision, improving brand consistency.
Reporting into the VP HRBPs, this global role, guaranteed the successful completion of HR projects by serving as the project management and change management owner. Drawing on my extensive human resources knowledge, I conducted in-depth analyses of contracts and provided effective recommendations. Additionally, I played an integral role in overseeing all aspects of acquisitions, divestitures, and plant closures from start to finish. The following are the highlights of the value that I brought to the organization: • Acted as an HR Business Partner for executive leadership, offering strategic input during senior-level meetings. • Streamlined HR core services, aimed at enabling process improvements and operational excellence for Manufacturing and Corporate teams. • Steered and empowered human resource teams of multiple experts across three countries, such as Canada, the U.S., and Trinidad. • Delivered a multi-year people strategy for the business that drove measurable progress in ED&I, leadership development, and employee engagement. • Spearheaded and navigated various projects for organization, including; - myHR implementation (HRIS project), - sponsor for People Continuous Improvement Team for N&P BU, - budget integration, - Early and non-traditional talent pool program implementation, - HR support for NPK GM offsites.
Reporting into the Director of HR, and supporting the Nitrogen Alberta Sites, I contributed to corporate initiatives that successfully integrated merged companies, ensuring seamless alignment of processes and culture. Introduced COVID-19 response measures and strengthened HR governance for Alberta sites. Key Achievements: Delivered strategic projects for Nitrogen and Phosphate business units across three countries. Architect of consistent org charts and pay bands across 14 sites and 3 countries Developed and facilitated the North American General Managers meeting across the organization, hosting a 3 day session for 30 Senior Leaders Enabled successful rollout of HR core services through exercise of tactical operational leadership. Recognized for guiding and directing a high-performance team of HR professionals within the region of Western Canada. Influenced a $1.5M HR budget.
Reporting into the President, this position was the Chief HR Officer (CHRO) for the organization. I led the hire to retire human resources responsibilities. Strengthened organizational alignment and workplace harmony by providing expert guidance and solutions for leaders and employees on human resource and labor relations matters. Key Achievements: Optimized overall performance and resource allocation by administering an HR budget exceeding $1M. Drove improvements in employee satisfaction by designing and deploying HR programs, including negotiation of a collective agreement, restructuring of Total Rewards programs, introduction of talent management system, and oversight of group and retirement benefits. Designed and built an 8 module leadership development program for the organization Negotiated a 3-year collective bargaining agreement Benchmarked, RFP’ed and redesigned Benefit program to reduce costs by $100K.
Supporting a stand-alone subsidiary in the Head of HR role , I led the hire to retire human resources responsibilities. Drove operational excellence by designing and executing streamlined, high-impact core HR services. Key Achievements: Maximized budget efficiency and resource effectiveness by managing an HR budget worth $1M with precision and strategic oversight. Workforce strategies and planning activities for mine end of life. HR lead for commercial activities, including divesture exercises and plant closure design Designed and executed a organizational structure design that had a cost savings of approx. $900K for the plant Initiated, planned and delivered an HRIS transformation with a cost savings of $1M.