Senior People & Culture Business Partner

Axonify is the AI-Powered Frontline Enablement Platform that helps organizations close the gap between learning and execution. By unifying learning, execution and insights capabilities, Axonify drives real business impacts for the world's largest frontline organizations across retail, grocery, healthcare, and financial services.

More than 4 million employees across 160+ countries rely on Axonify today. It's an exciting time to join as we transform the company and build what's next.

We're a team that thinks deeply, moves with intention, and embraces new ideas. We learn quickly, keep a sharp focus on real-world impact, and take meaningful action to drive progress. And we do it as one team, with openness, creativity, and a shared drive to keep pushing what's possible.

Reporting to the Vice President, People & Culture, the Senior People & Culture Business Partner serves as a strategic advisor and consultant to Axonify Leadership, playing a key role in shaping functional business outcomes and elevating the impact of People and Culture. This role leverages extensive experience to proactively address the complex organizational and people needs of Axonify's business functions, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and values.

With a focus on workforce planning, talent management, and organizational effectiveness, the Senior P&C Business Partner will partner with leaders to drive initiatives that foster a culture of engagement, development, and high performance. As a cultural ambassador, this role champions Axonify's values and enhances the employee experience.

This is a 15 Month Contract.

• Build strong, effective business relationships with Senior Leaders to understand key business priorities and talent impact, to proactively introduce and implement solutions and strategy.
• Implement the most effective and optimized organizational structures with an eye for longer-term growth.
• Serve as a thought partner and coach for Senior Leaders to grow their leadership capability.
• Work with the client group(s) to enable the effective implementation of People & Culture priorities and client group-specific initiatives to ensure partnership, change management support or timely implementation.
• Lead and/or support the delivery of annual People Programs including Talent Planning, bi-annual compensation reviews etc for assigned client group(s)
• Be a leader with vision and an agent of change with respect to the People & Culture function, creatively assessing and sharing opportunities and risks to the function to drive continuous improvement.
• Partner with the business to resolve employee relations issues, ensuring appropriate actions are taken and risks are assessed.
• Act as a contributor on P&C programs, by communicating business initiatives and talent-related priorities to COE partners and providing input on program design.
• Projects as assigned to continue to streamline internal processes and/or drive People & Culture strategies.

• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience as an HR business partner or equivalent.
• Demonstrated business acumen; experience crafting and implementing creative and progressive talent strategies tailored to specific client group needs,
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills; deep listener who is able to influence without authority
• Exceptional consulting, coaching and facilitation skills
• Comfortable in a dynamic, scaling SaaS environment, with strong change management experience

hybrid role
, with a combination of in-person and remote work. Our preference is for the Senior People & Culture Business Partner to be based in the Kitchener-Waterloo, Toronto, or surrounding areas
, with the ability to work from our Waterloo, Ontario office to…