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Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

Reporting to the President, Superior Propane and a member of the senior leadership team, this role is responsible for strategically developing, executing, and continuously improving Human Resources strategies in support of Superior Propane’s overall goals and vision. Overall accountabilities include leadership development, employee relations and engagement, health & wellness, learning and development, operations support, internal communications, and organizational change while championing diversity and inclusion.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Leader of the HR team accountable for all aspects of HR for the headquarter groups, including National Talent Acquisition. I provided HR leadership to the HQ teams including, Sales, Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain and Regulatory Affairs. I was accountable for all Core Process and Talent Acquisition for Canada. I led 10 Talent Acquisition managers and specialists and 4 HR generalists ensuring staffing was maintained at optimum levels during the Pandemic to maintain business continuity; I developed and implemented staffing strategies to hire over 1200 seasonal frontline staff. I coached over 15 leaders at the Director+ level, ensuring leadership development, promotion and retention.

Mississauga

In this role I led the Ontario HR team for the Beverage division of PepsiCo. This included all employee, labour relations, and talent management for manufacturing, warehousing, sales and distribution across 14 locations with multiple bargaining units. I developed the Campus recruitment and retention strategy. I developed program ensuring sales reps are in place to service Toronto’s multi ethnic community. I led several Change initiatives and participated in 6 CBA negotiations.

Brampton, Ontario

As the Senior HR business partner, confidante and coach to the CTO and the Network SLT and reporting to a variety of roles including the CHRO and SVPHR, I led all facets of HR in a complex highly-matrixed organization. The HR lead for two major restructuring activities, I led the integration of two vastly different cultures resulting in a combined 2600 person, agile and productive Engineering team. I was responsible for developing and implementing succession planning and talent rotation programs up to the Director and VP level while maintaining engagement scores at above BiC levels of 80% over four years.

Toronto, Ontario

In this role, I led the 23 person HR team supporting over 10,000 care representatives nationwide and was tasked with heading up a task force that achieved a reduction of attrition by 12 points over a 14 month period. This lead to a dramatic decrease in operating costs. I was the management coach to the senior leader team which saw a noticeable improvement in teamwork.

Toronto, Ontario

Reporting to the CEO, I led the Canadian HR function that partnered with the business providing HR services to 1800 nationwide employees for a $450M business. My key accountabilities included developing and implementing a five year HR strategic plan directed at improving engagement and talent management while dovetailing with the Canadian and global business strategy.

Toronto, Ontario

Accountable for implementing a variety of HR systems and processes for the Canadian organization and integrating them into the Global organization while ensuring that the local flavour was maintained. I also led the development of Marketing competencies for North America and facilitated productivity improvement workshops with the Sales organization.

Toronto, Ontario

In this role, I reviewed global contracts, pricing agreements and analyzed point-of-sale data for strategic accounts (ie. Coca-Cola, Ford, SNC-Lavalin). Another key accountability was to research market feasibility in a variety of sectors of the Canadian economy to assist with the development of a three year strategic plan.

Brampton, Ontario

Managed the HR team for a 500 person unionized manufacturing facility. I successfully led the company through two rounds of collective bargaining negotiations during which period the operation almost doubled its production volume. Subsequently, as the manufacturing strategy was rationalized, I planned and executed a major change initiative involving the closing of the facility. This resulted in a North American corporate award for operational efficiency.

Toronto, Ontario

In this role, I delivered labour relations advice to the HR leaders at over 150 hospitals in Ontario while preparing management briefs for interest based arbitrations. I participated in the successful Med-Arb process for 3 central unions (ONA, CUPE and SEIU).

Mississauga, Ontario

Responsible for all aspects of HR services in a 200 person assembly plant, I oversaw payroll, health and safety training, conflict resolution and performance evaluation. My additional accountabilities included the development and implementation of a work-sharing program, design of company policies and the streamlining of HR processes.

Kingston, Ontario

In this contract role, I reviewed Correctional Services job descriptions and conducted workforce analysis that resulted in the development of “super-jails” which were subsequently implemented by the Ontario government. I was also responsible for recruiting correctional officers while and administering and interpreting psychometric assessments.

Mba, Business

Mir, Masters Industrial Relations

Recipient of the Queen's Graduate Award – scholarship awarded to incoming graduate students.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A. - Honours), Economics

Activities and Societies: Student Representative Assembly memberReceived the Sam Lawrence Memorial Prize for outstanding academic.

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