Vice President Human Resources

Vice President, Human Resources – Canada
Adecco is partnering with a well-established global construction organization to recruit an accomplished Vice President of Human Resources for its Canadian operations.

This is a highly visible executive leadership position with responsibility for shaping and delivering the people strategy across multiple Canadian provinces. Working closely with Canadian executives and global HR leaders, the successful candidate will help guide the organization through continued growth, transformation, and organizational change.

The role requires a commercially minded HR executive who can move comfortably between strategy and execution. This individual will advise senior leaders, lead complex people initiatives, strengthen organizational capability, and ensure that Canadian priorities remain closely aligned with the broader global people strategy.

The Role
The Vice President of Human Resources will serve as a trusted advisor to the Canadian leadership team and a key partner to global stakeholders. The successful candidate will oversee a broad HR portfolio spanning organizational effectiveness, talent strategy, workforce planning, leadership development, employee relations, change management, and HR operations.

This leader will bring consistency across provinces while understanding that each region and business group may have different operational and regulatory requirements. The position requires strong judgement, executive presence, and the ability to influence within a large, complex, and highly matrixed organization.

Key Responsibilities
Executive Partnership and People Strategy

Develop and execute a Canadian people strategy aligned with regional business priorities and the organization’s global direction.

Advise senior executives on organizational structure, workforce priorities, leadership capability, talent risk, and employee matters.

Translate business plans into practical and measurable people initiatives.

Provide thoughtful, commercially grounded guidance during periods of growth, change, and organizational complexity.

Build strong relationships with executive leaders and become a trusted, credible partner across the business.

National HR Leadership

Oversee the delivery of HR programs and services across multiple Canadian provinces.

Create consistency in HR practices while addressing provincial employment legislation and regional business requirements.

Lead, coach, and develop regional HR professionals, promoting accountability, collaboration, and high-quality service delivery.

Establish clear priorities for the HR function and ensure the team remains focused on the most important business and workforce needs.

Partner closely with global HR leaders, Centres of Excellence, shared-service teams, and international stakeholders on a daily basis.

Organizational Design and Transformation

Lead organizational-design initiatives, operating-model changes, workforce restructuring, and role-alignment programs.

Support the organization through transformation, integration, growth, and other significant business changes.

Assess organizational capability and identify opportunities to improve structure, efficiency, accountability, and collaboration.

Develop practical change-management strategies that support leaders and employees through transition.

Help build an adaptable organization capable of responding to evolving business priorities.

Talent, Performance and Succession

Lead regional talent reviews, succession planning, workforce planning, and leadership-development initiatives.

Partner with executives to identify critical roles, high-potential talent, capability gaps, and future leadership needs.

Strengthen performance-management practices and promote clear expectations, accountability, and meaningful development conversations.

Develop strategies that support employee engagement, retention, internal mobility, and leadership readiness.

Ensure regional talent programs remain aligned with global frameworks while meeting Canadian business needs.

Mergers, Acquisitions and Integration

Provide HR leadership during mergers, acquisitions, integrations, or other major organizational transitions.

Support people-related due diligence, workforce assessment, organizational design, communications, and integration planning.

Identify potential people, culture, leadership, and employee-relations risks.

Help align policies, programs, teams, and ways of working following an acquisition or organizational change.

Partner with business and global…