HR People & Culture Specialist
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Poppy & PeoniesConsumer goods
Listing locations: Canada; Location base: CanadaFull-TimeMiddle
SalarySalary range: $95,000–$110,000 CAD annually
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Job Details
- Experience
- Approximately 5–7 years of progressive HR experience
- Required Skills
- Recruitment
Requirements
- Approximately 5–7 years of progressive HR experience, including meaningful generalist responsibility.
- Experience operating at an HR Manager, Senior HR Generalist, People Operations Manager, or comparable intermediate level.
- Experience supporting a small but scaling company with evolving priorities, roles, and processes.
- Experience working directly with a founder and senior leaders in a founder-led business.
- Strong generalist knowledge across performance management, employee relations, benefits, policies, onboarding, employee experience, learning and development, and offboarding.
- Experience coaching managers through performance concerns, feedback conversations, team challenges, and employee development.
- Experience developing, improving, and scaling people programs, processes, and systems.
- Strong judgment to handle matters independently and identify when legal or specialized guidance is needed.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, relationship-building, organization, project management, and follow-through.
- Comfort handling confidential and sensitive employee information.
- Experience supporting remote-first or distributed teams.
- Working knowledge of applicable Canadian employment standards and HR practices; experience across multiple provinces or jurisdictions is an asset.
- A relevant post-secondary qualification or HR designation is an asset, but not required where equivalent experience is demonstrated.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the founder and leadership team to translate business priorities into practical people plans and workforce plans.
- Provide HR guidance to leaders and use employee feedback, workforce data, and organizational observations to identify risks and opportunities.
- Lead performance management, including goal setting, feedback, reviews, development planning, and performance improvement.
- Coach managers through performance concerns, difficult conversations, team dynamics, and employee development.
- Manage employee relations, investigations, accommodations, leaves, attendance concerns, HR records, policies, benefits, and offboarding.
- Oversee onboarding, employee listening, culture-building programs, recognition, virtual events, and learning and development.
- Partner with leaders and recruitment vendors on hiring priorities, job descriptions, selection practices, and recruitment timelines.
- Assess and improve HR programs, systems, workflows, templates, and tools as the company grows.
- Oversee the work of the Culture Specialist, providing direction, support, prioritization, and accountability.
- Maintain an annual people calendar and track participation, feedback, outcomes, recruitment progress, and vendor performance.
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