Managing Director, Employee Relations

Managing Director, Employee Relations – Bank of Montreal

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Final date to receive applications: 11/20/2025

• Formulate and implement enterprise‑wide employee and industrial relations strategies, policies, and programs, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Provide executive‑level advice and governance on employee relations matters, including compliance with federal, provincial, and territorial legislation, privacy, and health & safety requirements.
• Lead a team of employee relations professionals, overseeing the development, promotion, and maintenance of effective employee relations programs across multiple business lines.
• Manage key employee relations initiatives and programs related to acquisitions, divestitures, employment transitions, separation agreements, and outsourcing.
• Act as primary point of contact with government agencies nationwide to influence legislative changes impacting labor and employment standards, representing BMO and participating on industry committees.
• Direct executive terminations, preparing severance packages, coaching managers on termination meetings, negotiating settlement agreements, and managing related litigation.
• Provide training on employee relations and industrial relations issues to all levels of the organization to enhance practitioner capability.
• Promote and support BMO’s risk culture, ensuring employees understand risk‑taking activities, encouraging open communication, and establishing an environment of effective challenge and tone from the top.

• Canadian law degree (mandatory).
• Minimum 10 years of Human Resources experience with a focus on employee/industrial relations.
• Strong knowledge of complex and evolving employee relations regulatory requirements across all jurisdictions where BMO FG operates.
• Experience with mediation, arbitration, and executive termination processes.
• Effective team leadership and people management skills.
• Excellent negotiation, presentation, and communication skills.
• Strong influencing, relationship management, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• Project management experience.
• Innovative, creative, self‑starter capable of managing multiple priorities simultaneously.

Base salary range: $175,000 – $205,000 CAD. Salary type:
Salaried.

BMO offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans.

At BMO we are committed to an inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace. Accommodations are available on request.