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For over 50 years, LifeLabs has been Canada’s leading provider of laboratory diagnostic information and digital health connectivity systems, enabling patients and healthcare practitioners to diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent disease. We are passionate about empowering healthier Canadians through accessible, accurate, and innovative diagnostic services.

We are committed innovators, operating Canada's first commercial genetics lab, and the country's largest online patient portal, with more than 8 million Canadians receiving their results online. More than 112 million laboratory tests come through LifeLabs’ laboratories annually, and our team of more than 6,000 passionate, caring, and diverse professionals works together as one to provide high quality testing and results that Canadians can trust.

We know that behind every lab requisition, sample being tested, or investment in technology is an individual and their family counting on us. At LifeLabs, you can make a meaningful impact on Canadians’ lives every day.

Our teams are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Best Employers, reflecting our deep commitment to our core values of caring, agility, teamwork, and a customer-centered approach. As part of this commitment, LifeLabs prioritizes the ongoing development of our diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program to better serve the needs of our diverse workforce and the communities we serve. We continue to take steps to challenge ourselves to act with courage and integrity, and to create an environment where people can be their true selves.

These values are not just words on a page, they guide our actions and decisions every day and have come to define our team culture.

Position Summary:
The HR Business Partner (HRBP) will provide strategic advice and proactive human resources partnership to leaders within a national business function(s) and will be responsible for driving people-focused solutions that enable the business to achieve its goals.

The HRBP partners closely with leaders to enhance organizational effectiveness, build leadership capability, and support a positive, high-performance culture. This is an opportunity to leverage your HR expertise, business and financial acumen, strategic thinking, coaching and influencing skills, and change management knowledge to partner with leaders in solving complex people challenges and opportunities that support LifeLabs’ success.

This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 3 days per week onsite.

Vacancy status: This posting is for an existing position.

What You’ll Do:Strategic Partnership and Consultative Problem Solving:

• Act as a trusted advisor to leaders by providing insights, strategic and consultative advice, and coaching on people matters.
• Partner with leaders to understand business priorities, identify people implications, and translate those priorities into integrated HR strategies and solutions.
• Identify emerging people issues and trends to inform decision-making.
• Break down problems and analyze data and information to provide insights and recommendations, partnering with HR Centres of Expertise as required.
• Assess people and organizational issues, balancing business priorities, employee considerations, organizational risk, and HR policy to develop and recommend appropriate solutions.

Enable the People Strategy and Deliver the HR Plan:

• Partner with business leaders in delivering the People and Culture strategy, executing the strategy and plan in alignment with broader HR and Centre of Expertise (COE) teams.
• Guide, coach, and lead delivery within assigned business functions of Corporate HR initiatives, including DEI, Performance, Talent, and Engagement.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and participate in HR projects.

Strategic Employee and Labour Relations:

• Partner with the Employee and Labour Relations team to support the success of ER/LR programs and initiatives.
• With guidance from the ER/LR team, address complex employee relations issues within assigned business functions.
• Partner with the ER/LR team to ensure findings from investigations are understood by business leaders, implementation plans are developed in partnership with groups across HR, and results and impacts are assessed.

Talent and Workforce Planning:

• Work with partners across HR to develop and implement integrated talent strategies and solutions to support the business in attracting, developing, and retaining the talent needed to meet current and future business needs and address key talent priorities.
• Support leaders in building employee capabilities and enabling team performance.
• Support succession planning and leadership development initiatives.
• Lead workforce planning efforts to ensure the right talent is in place to support future business needs.

Employee Experience and Culture:

• Champion Corporate HR culture and employee experience initiatives and partner with the Talent and Engagement team to identify and incorporate the specific needs of business functions.
• Partner with leaders to drive engagement action planning.
• Provide coaching and guidance to managers on leadership practices.

Organizational Development & Change Management:

• Identify, assess, develop, and evaluate overall business impacts, risks, and change management strategies associated with achieving business plans.
• Develop, design, and lead organizational and work redesign efforts for business units.
• Identify change management strategies that enhance adoption and minimize disruption.

What You'll Bring:

• 5–7 years of progressive HR Business Partner experience.
• University degree.
• Proven track record of building relationships with leaders, with the ability to provide robust recommendations, coach, influence, and drive change.
• Well-developed consulting skills with strong problem identification and resolution capabilities.
• Experience using data and analysis to generate insights that support decision-making.
• Strategic thinker with demonstrated business and financial acumen.
• Experience with organizational design, talent management, and change management.
• Strong communication skills with experience communicating with senior leaders.
• Experience working within a unionized environment is an asset.

Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to play a meaningful role in shaping how people and business priorities come together at LifeLabs. As a strategic partner to leaders across the organization, you’ll have the opportunity to influence organizational effectiveness, strengthen leadership capability, and help shape a positive employee experience. You’ll work collaboratively with leaders and HR partners across the organization to address complex challenges, deliver on our People and Culture strategy, and support the continued success of our business.

What We Offer:
Salary range: $96,255 – $122,727 CAD annually (commensurate with experience).
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LifeLabs’ compensation programs are commensurate based on the role, skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions, irrespective of gender, race, ethnicity, beliefs, age or any other personal characteristics. Pay programs are communicated regularly in an accessible and transparent manner.

LifeLabs is also proud to offer resources, opportunities, as well as a collaborative and supportive environment that enables our team members to thrive.

In addition to a competitive compensation package, LifeLabs provides a comprehensive total rewards program, specific to the job position. Your package may include:

• Employee Group Benefits: Competitive coverage for employees and their families to support their overall health and wellness needs, including Extended Health Care, Dental Care, and Life Insurance.
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Vacation and Wellness Days
• Employee Wellness and Giving Programs: Our award winning mental, physical and financial wellness programs aim to address the comprehensive well-being of our team members, including resources like the Employee & Family Assistance Program, financial planning tools, and employee recognition initiatives.
• Professional development and membership reimbursement, access to preferred rates and discount programs, including WorkPerks, Home and Auto Insurance, Costco Membership, etc., and optional health-related benefits.

In accordance with LifeLabs’ Accessibility Policy, and the applicable Accessibility Acts within the provinces we operate in, accommodations are available by request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process. For a confidential inquiry or to request an accommodation, please contact your recruiter or email careers@lifelabs.com.

Vaccinations are highly encouraged at LifeLabs’. Vaccinations and/or immunization screening may be mandatory for selected employees if regulated by provincial or regional governments, or through employer-led vaccination policies in the facilities we service. Please ensure you ask if this position requires the successful candidate to be vaccinated or undergo immunization screening.

Ready to empower healthier Canadians? Apply today!