At Air Liquide, we RESPECT, HONOR and VALUE diversity.
This position will be at our offices located at 1250 René-Lévesque Blvd. W., 18th floor, Montréal
Schedule from Monday to Friday in hybrid mode (3 days/week in the office)
Occasional travel to Quebec, Ontario, and Atlantic Canada
Recruiter:
Manon Bélanger/[email protected]/514-241-9029
Job Summary: As a Senior HR Business Partner, you act as a performance catalyst and a key strategic advisor for the Eastern region. Your mission is to translate Air Liquide's (ALC) vision into concrete actions by collaborating closely with the region's leaders (Sales, Production, Finance, Logistics). More than an HR program manager, you influence the work climate and talent alignment to support sustainable growth. Your expertise allows you to navigate with agility between labor relations management (unionized environment), high-level leader coaching, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
1. Business Partnership and Strategic Influence:
Trusted Advisor: Act as a privileged strategic partner to the Vice-Presidents and District Managers of your client group. You challenge the status quo and advise leaders on management and structural issues. You advise different levels of management with the same expertise, influence, and tact. You interact with a varied range of managers, from the front-line supervisor to the Vice-President.
Change Catalyst: Support organizational managers in transformation projects, structural evolution, process optimization, and change management to ensure organizational agility.
Integrated Expertise: Navigate easily between immediate operational needs and the long-term vision, ensuring equity and coherence in the application of HR practices.
2.HR Consulting and Development:
Active HR Management: Support regional managers in executing annual HR cycles, namely global compensation, talent management, talent acquisition, and employee experience, with an expert consultant approach.
Executive Coaching: Act as a coach for managers at all levels. You adapt your approach to develop leadership, change management, and succession planning, whether for new managers or experienced executives.
Elevate Management: Elevate personnel management skills (discipline, absenteeism, decision-making) by coaching managers on best practices.
3.Labor Relations and Compliance (Unionized & Non-unionized):
Labor Relations: Act as a labor relations expert with the support of our COE. You advise management on the interpretation of collective agreements, manage complex disciplinary issues, and actively participate in negotiation strategies.
Rigorous Management of Interventions: Lead or collaborate on sensitive investigations (harassment, discipline) and recommend administrative or disciplinary measures accompanied by corrective action plans.
Work Climate: Cultivate a healthy and high-performing work environment, whether unionized or non-unionized, through proactive interventions and expert management advice to managers regarding conflicts.
Legal Compliance: Guarantee the organization's integrity regarding labor laws and OHS standards, managing risks to protect ALC's reputation and compliance.
4. Talent Management and Performance:
Talent Management: You will be called upon to participate in talent management activities (9box, Succession, critical roles, etc.) and play a role of influence. You will be involved in various actions to enable our talents to be discovered, developed, and progress within the group (development plan, career discussion, exit interviews, external recruitment, etc.). Your analysis of our resources and influence on planning allows for anticipating future needs and maintaining a culture of excellence.
Performance Management: Support managers in the annual performance management cycle, participate in calibration exercises with the entire division.
Talent Acquisition: Collaborate with the Talent Acquisition COE team and your managers to define strategic profiles (executives and key positions) and ensure successful integration (onboarding).
5.Ensures appropriate management and compliance with compensation programs and administrative processes in their region:
In line with the deployments of the Global Compensation COE team, ensures that the management of annual salary increases and variable compensation programs complies with ALC standards and objectives. Manages administrative processes via Workday.
6.Participates in the development of HR programs and takes part in special projects:
Participates in the development and deployment of programs and processes compliant with ALC standards (employee benefits, job evaluations, salary reviews, internal transfers, training, career development, recruitment, etc.). Provides necessary guidance and support to the HR team. Encourages the sharing of information, knowledge, best practices, and experiences within the team. Participates in special HR projects.
7.Safety/Quality:
Participates in promoting ALC's safety and quality objectives. Is involved with the health and safety and operations teams during workplace accident investigations that may lead to disciplinary actions;
Works with their own team and multidisciplinary teams to continuously improve working methods and introduce adequate corrective and preventive measures.
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Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or Labor Relations or Business Administration with a certain number of HR credits.
6 to 8 years of experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment.
Minimum of 3 years of experience in a unionized environment;
Bilingualism required (French and English) in writing and speaking to collaborate with all regions of Canada
Sharp understanding of operational and financial issues and ability to translate business issues into high-value HR solutions.
Proven ability to influence leaders at all levels and navigate complex matrix environments.
Preferred Qualifications
You are recognized for your speed of execution and resilience, as well as your ability to act quickly.
Ability to make informed decisions in contexts of ambiguity or urgency.
Quickly identify delicate situations and seek different solutions to solve a problem.
Our Differences make our Performance
At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.
We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Labor Relations, or Business Administration with HR credits
- 6 to 8 years of experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a unionized environment
- Bilingual in French and English (written and spoken)
- Proven ability to influence leaders at all levels and operate in a complex matrix environment
- Sharp understanding of operational and financial issues and ability to translate business issues into HR solutions
- Labor relations expertise including interpretation of collective agreements, disciplinary management, investigations and negotiation support
- Experience managing administrative HR processes and compensation programs via Workday
- Speed of execution, resilience, and ability to make informed decisions in ambiguous or urgent contexts
- Ability to quickly identify delicate situations and propose multiple solutions
Air Liquide Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Air Liquide and has not been reviewed or approved by Air Liquide.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance and life coverage are broadly provided under a global common care baseline that includes inpatient and outpatient healthcare. Dental and vision coverage are present in many locations, and short-term disability provisions have been enhanced.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies provide at least 14 weeks of fully paid maternity leave globally and paid parental leave for non-birthing parents in the U.S. Childcare benefits are available in some countries as part of the package.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Annual incentive bonuses, performance bonuses for exceeding goals, and profit-sharing are integrated into the total rewards structure. Feedback suggests additional earning avenues like overtime can further augment pay in eligible roles.
Air Liquide Insights
What We Do
A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 75 countries with approximately 66,400 employees and serves more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the company’s activities since its creation in 1902.
