HR Solutions Partner

AstraZeneca • Mississauga, ON

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The HR Solutions Partner provides high quality, generalist HR partnership to managers, enabling effective leadership of their teams and delivery of business outcomes. This role delivers core HR processes with accuracy and consistency, resolves day to day workforce and ER matters, and delivers talent, learning, reward and workforce activities. Acting as a trusted advisor, the HR Solutions Partner builds strong relationships with senior managers, offering coaching, policy guidance and practical support rooted in deep HR field knowledge. Using people insights and data, they highlight workforce risks and trends, support Strategic Workforce Planning and translate insights into actionable plans. With a focus on process simplification and digital optimisation, the role finds opportunities to improve how work gets done and supports the adoption of global HR tools, offerings and AI enabled processes. The HR Solutions Partner plays a meaningful role in building capability through learning, inclusion and leadership development initiatives, driving team effectiveness and engagement at function level. Working closely with HRBPs, HR Services and CoEs, they ensure a seamless experience and connect managers to the right expertise at the right time, reporting to the Global HR Solutions Manager and partnering day to day with Global HR Business Partners.

Requirements

• Coaching & Manager Support: Able to coach managers on day‑to‑day workforce concerns.
• Advanced Stakeholder Management: Accomplished in managing and influencing senior leaders and HR leaders.
• HR Process & Policy Interpretation: Skilled at interpreting HR policy and guiding managers appropriately.
• Project Delivery & Execution: Capable of delivering defined HR projects and activities as part of a team.
• Stakeholder Communication & Relationship Building: Builds relationships quickly across the organisation and maintains strong communication.
• Advanced Digital, Data & Insights Capability: Differentiated skill in using digital platforms, optimising processes and generating data‑driven insights.
• Process Improvement: Identifies improvement opportunities and implements innovative enhancements.
• Workforce Insights: Skilled at generating, interpreting and presenting workforce insights to support decision‑making.
• HR Discipline Knowledge: Skilled in at least one HR discipline (ER, Reward, Talent, etc.).
• Learning Agility: Sharp learner with willingness to apply new knowledge; comfortable with ambiguity and pace.

Responsibilities

• Deliver generalist HR support to managers, providing policy interpretation, coaching and guidance on employment matters, workforce concerns, performance, attendance, reward and talent processes.
• Execute HR processes and annual people cycles (PD, RPD, reward cycles, talent forums, data submissions, performance processes) accurately, consistently and on time for their assigned business areas.
• Lead day‑to‑day operational HR activities, including resolving manager queries, supporting case navigation, and ensuring compliant, consistent application of HR frameworks.
• Manage ER cases that fall outside the risk‑based model, including coaching managers, identifying and managing risk and escalating appropriately to ER if risk profile increases.
• Deliver talent, reward and workforce activities, including: managing talent appointment / out‑of‑requisition offer process steps, preparing people insights for talent review and workforce planning.
• Execute Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) activity business area, including gathering inputs, preparing data and actions, and partnering with the HRBP to operationalise plans.
• Provide accurate people data, insights and reporting to support decision‑making and highlight workforce risks, themes or trends.
• Find opportunities for process simplification and digital optimisation, proposing improvements and supporting deployment of new tools/AI‑enabled processes.
• Contextualise global CoE offerings (L&D, Inclusion & Diversity, Reward, Talent, Wellbeing) for their business area and support adoption.
• Deliver learning, inclusion & diversity and leadership development initiatives, translating enterprise offerings into meaningful plans for the function and coaching managers on capability uplift needs.
• Lead or facilitate team effectiveness interventions, culture discussions and engagement sessions below LT level.
• Maintain strong cross‑HR collaboration, working closely with HRBPs, HR Services, CoEs and other Solutions colleagues to ensure seamless service and a “One HR” experience.
• Build business understanding and stakeholder relationships, becoming a trusted partner for senior managers and a reliable connector into HR.

Benefits

• Competitive Flex Benefits & Retirement Savings Program
• 4 weeks’ paid vacation
• annual Personal Days
• Contract Benefits Program (for Fixed Term Contract/Temporary positions)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed