Director, Talent Development and Learning

The Opportunity

Company, Department: Emera Inc, Corporate Human Resources

Location: Halifax, NS

Closing Date: November 3rd, 2024

At Emera, you’ll be part of an inclusive, respectful workplace where everyone is welcome and supported. Come, build a career as unique as you are, making an impact from Atlantic Canada and on our businesses across the US and the Caribbean. Your experience and values will support the Emera team to safely deliver cleaner, reliable energy to our customers.  

Reporting to the VP Corporate Human Resources, as Director, Talent Development and Learning, you will be a key leader in our success by designing and delivering our approach for development, learning, succession, engagement, performance, and leadership competencies. Possessing a passion for developing people and having a strategic operational business mindset, you will anticipate and collaborate with our HR partners and business leaders to provide talent tools to enable our workforce for today and the future. You and your team should be customer centric, innovative, and focused on solving challenges practically and creatively.

  

As Director, Talent Development and Learning, you will:

• Lead a team that matures, designs and manages processes related to organizational talent management to effectively and efficiently deliver on the goals of our internal customers.
• In collaboration with HR partners in our operating companies, determine requirements and oversee the design and delivery of practical and scalable development, leadership, learning, systems and programs.
• Leverage a customer/employee centric approach while serving as a knowledgeable/credible internal consultant to business HR leads.
• Develop strategies and tools to address talent gaps for effective succession and development planning, with an inclusive mindset.
• Relentlessly focus on bringing value to the businesses we support as a service provided for the business.
• Enable performance review processes and system tools in support of employee development.
• Develop and execute strategies to enhance employee engagement survey processes to effectively gauge employee sentiment, identifying company-wide trends and opportunities supported by action plans.
• Utilise data driven insights to measure the effectiveness of talent management initiatives to enhance the talent development and learning strategy.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices and propose strategies to continue to advance our talent management proposition.
• Support our digitalization capability through our cloud systems enhancements for learning and performance.
  
  
  

What skills will make you successful?

You will operate with integrity, authenticity and serve as an influential member of the senior HR leadership team. You should be strong at anticipating, designing and delivering a variety of tools to enable and develop our talented employees for today and the future.

Requirements

• Proven HR leadership experience with a minimum 15 + years of progressive roles in an operational business with a focus on leadership development, succession planning, performance, and employee engagement
• Bachelor’s degree in business, psychology, human resources, or related field or equivalent experience.
• An outstanding collaborator and team player that excels at creating practical outcomes with the needs of different stakeholders in mind.
• Exceptional communication skills to connect impactfully with diverse teams and at different levels within the organization.
• Ability to create and implement a compelling strategy with the appropriate inputs from stakeholders.
• Previous experience driving successful business change initiatives through influence and inspiring successful adoption of new processes and strategies.
  
  
  

The perks of joining our team? We offer:

Flexibility:  Hybrid work model with flexible remote workdays.

Health & Wellbeing:  A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for you and your family through Dialogue, access to a free on-site fitness centre, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.

Grow Your Career:  Opportunities to advance within and between our operating businesses, a focus on employee development and available sponsored education programs.

Community Engagement & Care:  Corporate investments in the places where our people live and work, mentoring opportunities, fundraising-matching & volunteer programs, and scholarships for children of employees.

Competitive Compensation:  A comprehensive benefits plan, short-term and long-term incentive plans, and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion at Emera

As one of Atlantic Canada’s largest publicly traded companies, we are ranked one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Top Employers for Young People and Top Diversity Employers. We know our success is driven by our dedicated teams and we strongly encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including persons who identify as racially visible, Indigenous, persons with disabilities, women in underrepresented roles and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.

Applicants from these equity groups may self-identify through the online application process. We support candidates and employees with access and accommodation needs and encourage you to let us know when you require accommodation.

Recruitment and Promotion Policy

The success of the Emera Company is driven by its people: a strong team with a shared commitment to support the Emera Company mission and values. The purpose of our recruitment policy is to provide a consistent framework to support fair and equitable attraction, hiring, and retention of the best talent for vacant positions. We are dedicated to maintaining a fair hiring process that provides equitable opportunities to all our applicants and is guided by our company values.