Cortney Vanier Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

MHS is a global leader in innovative scientific assessments that help improve the quality of life for individuals and communities around the world. For 40 years, MHS has delivered trusted data-driven solutions across our core disciplines - Clinical, Education, Talent Development, and Public Safety. Science and research are the basis of MHS’ roots and the drivers of future innovations and successes. With new standards for toolsets, MHS helps clients evaluate, track, and leverage human-centric data, to help realize each individual’s full potential.

Toronto, Canada Area

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp.Responsible for providing a superior level of Human Resources services to designated client groups, in order to support the achievement of corporate objectives. Primary areas of responsibility include: full-cycle recruitment and selection, new hire, benefit, and maternity orientations, training and development, employee relations, performance management, legislative adherence, Health and Safety and special projects. •Actively supported North American Marketing and Digital, Editorial, Finance and Legal departments.•Transformed, created, and implemented an updated, non-bias, corporate recruitment process for two (2) corporate offices (Toronto and New York), to ensure diverse candidates pools and equal opportunity for all prospective candidates. Executed to support an inclusive recruitment strategy. Formalized within six (6) months. •Managed full cycle recruitment and tracked corporate turnover rates. Regularly evaluated headcount and provided recommendations to ensure fulfillment of future talent attraction plans. •Successfully piloted and implemented our online Performance Management system. Created content and facilitated in-house training sessions. Managed all system updates, in-house troubleshooting, and all communications. •Provided advice and guidance on performance issues, managing performance, compensation and rewards, and policies and procedures, in a timely and efficient manner. •Created annual in-house corporate training calendar. Conducted training needs analysis, developed content, sourced suppliers, facilitated sessions, and partnered with external facilitators to manage on-site training sessions.•Accountable for corporate Health and Safety programs.

North York, Ontario

Toronto, Canada Area

Founded in 1892, the Toronto Star has long been Canada’s largest daily newspaper. The Star publishes a newspaper seven days a week in the Greater Toronto Area and publishes ongoing news and information to a global audience on thestar.com on web and mobile applications. The Star is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. As the Assistant to the VP, Human resources, I was responsible for providing support to the VP, alongside the Human Resources department. This support included, data gathering and analysis, preparation of materials, calendar management, prioritizing requests/timelines, booking transportation, project coordination, attendance tracking, and monthly reconciliation of overall annual departmental budget, forecast and payables.

Toronto, Canada Area

Resolved benefit and pension issues for inactive and active employees (approx. 2,000) in coordination with Sunlife Assurance Company of Canada. Assisted and completed new employee benefit orientations and Group RRSP (GRSP) orientations. Coordinated and posted unionized and non-unionized recruitments. Administered and processed reimbursement for Educational Assistance for all employees. Coordinated Death Notice processes for employees/retirees (life insurance and benefits for beneficiaries as applicable). Processed Employee and Retiree Information Forms for submission to payroll weekly and monthly. Maintained employee and pensioner electronic HRIS and manual files. Updated HRIS with dependent, benefit, pension, beneficiary changes and information and GRSP enrolment for employees and retirees of the Star Media Group, Toronto Star and Torstar Corporation.

Toronto, Canada Area

Torstar is a broadly based, progressive media company with a long history in daily and community newspapers, book publishing and digital businesses. Built on the foundation of the Toronto Star, Torstar has grown into a diversified media company with a growing portfolio of businesses and investments that reach consumers in Canada, the United States and around the world.Managed annual discretionary fund for Office of the President and CEO, alongside the Chairman. Coordinated, requisitioned, processed cheques, and followed-up on charitable requests and donations. Organized logistics for Torstar Corporate annual offsite and corporate events. Provided vacation coverage for the Director, Office of the President and CEO and the Office of the Chairman. Managed calendar, phones calls, mail, Dictaphone transcription, preparation of correspondence and presentations, and expenses. Completed special projects as assigned.

Toronto, Canada Area

Provided support to the Director and Senior Vice President of the Human Resources Strategy Division (recruitment needs/testing, expenses, calendars, attendance and distribution of information/materials). Reported on Environmental Health, Safety and Wellness (EHS&W) trends on a quarterly basis, in accordance with Board and Salary and Organization Committee meetings. Tracked monthly budget, established forecasts, and completed charge-backs for Corporate Training and Development programs across all Torstar businesses. Completed executive compensation histories across all Torstar businesses, and completed external salary surveys where required.

Toronto, Canada Area

As one of the largest defined benefit pension plans in Canada, for more than 60 years, OMERS has humbly served as the steward and guardian of the retirement income of more than half a million active, deferred and retired municipal employees from communities across Ontario. It’s investors and professionals are across offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Worked closely with Manager, Board Services to ensure monthly Board, HR, and Compensation Committee reports met organizational deadlines and standards. Worked closely with the CEO’s office to administer OMERS condolence policy, corporate donations and flowers. Regularly reviewed program and made improvements. Managed corporate Service Awards Program, coordinated corporate annual employee meetings. Updated and maintained HR section of corporate intranet (utilizing Lotus Notes). Managed all accounts payable, invoice, VISA transactions and annual operating costs of the HR Branch budget. Acted as a backup to the HR Administrator; processing and distributing salary increase, employment confirmation, extension, acting, contract, permanent, promotion and transfer letters. Performed candidate testing as needed.

Toronto, Canada Area

Appointed as a Technical Advisor, training and coaching a 13-member team. Processed pension information consistently, with substantial speed and accuracy (often exceeding quotas).

Diploma, Chrm, Human Resources Management

Psychology