HR Tech - Senior Strategy Manager
Montréal, QC, CA, H3B 1S6 Burnaby, BC, CA Montréal, QC, CA Toronto, ON, CA Calgary, AB, CA Edmonton, AB, CA Vancouver, BC, CA
Description
Our Team and What We’ll Accomplish Together
Join the People & Culture (P&C) Digital Enablement and Analytics team, where we bridge the gap between high-level strategy and technical execution. We are looking for a strategic partner to serve as a key collaborator to the leadership team, providing high-level support in driving the technological vision and operational excellence of our P&C ecosystem.
In this pivotal role, you will be the orchestrator of our P&C digital landscape. Thriving in an environment that is complex and constantly evolving, you will provide the global oversight necessary to align our technology stack with our organizational objectives. You will provide key support in shaping the long-term technological roadmap, ensuring that both our efforts and investments are optimized. If you are a high-level strategist who thrives on turning technical
complexity into actionable business value, we want you on our team.
What You’ll Do
Strategic Roadmap & Architecture
- Global Technological Oversight: Act as a central facilitator for the P&C application inventory. Maintain a big picture view of our solutions, ensuring their alignment with business processes, modern standards, and long-term capability needs
- Long-Term Roadmap: Collaborate with the leadership team to define and drive the P&C digital roadmap, balancing immediate operational needs with long-term digital transformation and innovation goals
- Architecture Leadership: Combine Business Architecture (connecting P&C strategy to capability needs) and Solution Architecture (assessing modernity, technical risks, and redundancies) to guide our evolution
Strategic Intelligence & Market Vigilance
- Market Insights & Benchmarking: Act as our internal expert on the global HR tech market. Drive market exploration by analyzing external data and industry trends to provide actionable insights that guide our long-term strategic initiatives
- Data-Driven Strategy: Leverage a strong analytical mindset to monitor performance indicators, synthesize findings, and provide consolidated recommendations to the leadership team to support data-informed decision-making
Operational Stewardship & Vendor Strategy
- Budgetary & Strategic Support: Act as a strategic partner to the leadership team in managing the operational budget. Ensure fiscal health through precise forecasting, proactive identification of future needs, and close collaboration with Finance and key stakeholders.
- Vendor & Strategic Relations: Support the leadership team in vendor lifecycle management by helping to define strategic agendas, developing partnership strategies, and ensuring external collaborations consistently drive tangible value.
Coordination, Communication & Governance
- Team Coordination: Act as a central point of coordination for team operations. Organize management meetings, prepare high-impact presentations, and ensure the team remains synchronized on priorities
- Initiative Management: Lead and coordinate key strategic initiatives. You will be responsible for driving specific workstreams or operational activities to successful delivery, whether within the team or across organizational boundaries
- Governance & Representation: Represent the Digital Enablement & Analytics team in key committees, ensuring our voice is heard and our strategy is consistently communicated across the organization
Qualifications
What You Bring
- HRIS expertise: Hands-on experience and functional knowledge of major HRIS like SuccessFactors or Workday
- Strategic Leadership: 7–10 years of progressive experience in strategic planning and HR technology within complex, large-scale environments
- Data-Driven Mindset: Proven ability to use data and performance indicators to structure analysis and guide decision-making
- Architectural & Operational Mindset: Proven ability to provide global oversight of complex application landscapes, identify duplications, and drive modernization
- Financial & Vendor Acumen: Demonstrated experience in managing operational budgets, forecasting, and supporting strategic vendor relationships
- Stakeholder & Partnership Management: Proven ability to manage relationships, drive consensus, and influence outcomes across diverse internal teams (e.g., Finance, P&C leadership) and external partners (e.g., vendors)
- Complex Environment Experience: Experience navigating technology integrations within M&A contexts and working across diverse legislative/international boundaries
- Communication & Synthesis: Expert ability to translate complex, multi-faceted technical information into clear narratives for executive stakeholders
- Education: University degree in Business, Information Technology, Human Resources, or a related field
Nice to Have
- Master’s degree or MBA
- Professional certification in Project Management (PMP) or Architecture (e.g., TOGAF)
Intermediate knowledge of English is required because you will most of the time interact in English with external parties (clients, suppliers, candidates, external partners, etc.); interact in English with internal parties (colleagues, internal partners, stakeholders, etc.); and work with IT tools whose interface is only accessible in English as part of this position's main responsibilities given its national scope.