Director, Human Resources

About Apotex Inc. Apotex is a Canadian-based global health company. We improve everyday access to affordable, innovative medicines and health products for millions of people worldwide, with a broad portfolio of generic, biosimilar, innovative branded pharmaceuticals and consumer health products. Headquartered in Toronto, with regional offices globally, including in the United States, Mexico and India, we are the largest Canadian-based pharmaceutical company and a health partner of choice for the Americas for pharmaceutical licensing and product acquisitions.

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As the site HR Director, you will serve as a strategic HR Business Partner (HRBP) and the Employee Relations leader for your site. This is a high-impact role that balances long-term organizational strategy with hands-on execution, fostering performance culture with focus on Winning Behaviours.

You will act as a trusted advisor to VP & Site Head and Site Leadership Team (SLT) while being highly visible on a shop floor, ensuring a positive, productive, and compliant employee experience.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership position that is not only supporting change, but working collaboratively in a matrix environment actively driving all phases of people-related projects and initiatives, encompassing planning, consultation, strategic development, and key decision-making. The role is required to work closely with HR centres of excellence to ensure optimal outcome of all people initiatives.

• Partner with site leadership to align people strategies with business objectives. Oversee performance management, succession planning, and talent development cycles at the site level in line with global program parameters.
• With tight collaboration with SLT, develop strategic workforce plan to support site’s long-term strategy, identify current and future skills requirements, and develop organization capabilities.
• Drive GPTW plans and actions, stay informed of employee opinions, monitor the effect of business decisions on people, advise and make recommendations to Leadership on possible solutions.
• Develop excellent ongoing relationships with site employee representatives and work closely with them to ensure continuous two-way dialogue and partnership between employees and management. Highly visible with all employees and stays on top of employee pulse at all times.
• Ensures excellent employee communication site strategy at all times, including site townhalls, executive fireside chats and all other communication means are utilized fully to support continuous employee engagement.
• Act as the bridge between the site and HR COEs (Total Rewards, Talent & Culture) to ensure corporate programs are effectively rolled out and tailored to site needs.
• Analyze HR metrics (attrition, engagement, absenteeism) to identify trends, propose and lead proactive solutions.
• Design and lead the site’s Positive Employee Relations (PER) strategy, ensuring a culture of transparency and mutual respect. Manage employee relations matters, serving as the escalation point for site-level grievances.
• Act as a strategic advisor to the SLT team on workplace trends and vulnerability gaps that could impact the direct-relationship model. Develop and execute plan to enhance capabilities of frontline supervisors, focusing on active listening, empathy, and fair treatment. Ensure total consistency in the application of policies to prevent perceptions of inequity or favoritism.
• Ensure all site operations adhere to various employment and labour laws, working closely with the Senior Director of Canada Employee Relations for alignment on policy interpretation.
• Participate and lead performance conversations with employees, including monthly one on ones, to connect on performance; check in on employee’s progress toward achieving objectives, offer support and remove barriers; and, communicate and revisit performance expectations to reinforce and encourage high performance culture and a safe working environment for all employees.
• Utilize open, honest, two way communication to build trust-based relationships with employees, business partners and direct…