You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you'll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues
- experts in their fields
- who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients
- who are at the heart of everything we do. At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful. When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description

The Director, Human Resources Business Partner for the Enablement Functions in Sun Life Canada will be responsible for implementing people and talent initiatives providing consulting expertise and influencing key initiatives and organizational changes. This role is not your average HRBP opportunity; rather this role will be a strategic partner to the business by being both an HR expert and delivering a future-focused Talent agenda. This role offers an exciting opportunity to deliver end-to-end talent outcomes to the business while directly aligning to their specific needs and objectives. At its core, this role has two main objectives
- build relationships and deliver a differentiated Talent experience. As an HR business partner,



you will build trust with business leaders to develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the business strategies to inform a talent agenda focused on driving business success and strategy execution. This includes delivering an exceptional employee and manager experience while delivering HR cycles and practices. You will influence the business to develop a future-focused talent agenda. Delivering against this agenda will support outcomes that include evolving the function’s operating model, expanding the talent ecosystem, and nurturing its culture to drive a high performance, empowered organization. Reporting to the AVP, HR Business Partner, Canadian Operations, this role is a trusted and valued partner in a complex and dynamic portfolio.

What will you do

Coach and Advise Partner, advise, coach and influence leaders to recognize, diagnose, and problem solve on talent situations and challenges. Elevate team effectiveness to deliver on their mandates. Create and execute change management plans to socialize and embed HR initiatives, policies and procedures for employees and managers. Coach managers to sustain change. Be a SME and a trusted advisor for client groups on talent policies, cycles, and initiatives. Talent Design future-focused talent initiatives in support of the business strategy for implementation where applicable across your portfolio. Lead and manage organizational change and talent programs and initiatives within this function.



Identify and validate talent gaps and recommend talent solutions leveraging data analysis and demonstrating ROIs. Lead and manage the annual talent cycles (Performance, Talent Review, Compensation, etc.) for your client groups. Deliver, refine, and maintain a robust succession plan. Partnership and Collaboration Partner with Centers of Expertise (Employee Relations, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Global Talent etc.) to design, refine, and implement talent initiatives for the Enterprise functions.

What do you need to succeed

This role is seeking something different…someone who is digitally savvy, relationship-driven and future-focused. A storyteller who can engage executive stakeholders, while also understanding the needs of the front-line employee, and is obsessed with delivering a differentiated experience to everyone. In addition, our BOLDER leadership framework highlights the behaviours that lead to success at Sun Life: Biased for action
- embraces a 'fail protected' mindset by quickly learning from mistakes so teams can succeed sooner. Open to listen
- open to new ideas and perspectives. Learn all the time
- is curious and intentionally carves out time to learn and reflect. Drive outcomes and results
- measures progress against outcomes and enables speed from ideas to implementation, grounded in facts derived from data analysis and insights. Empower
- enables and supports leaders, employees, and team members as they determine "how" to achieve outcomes. Resiliency
- knows when to push, when to pivot, and when to let go.

Skills & Competencies

Undergraduate degree and/or a combination of 10+ years of relevant, progressive work experience Strong business and HR acumen, with analytical and

📌 Director, Human Resources Business Partner, Enablement Functions (Toronto)
🏢 Sun Life
📍 Toronto