Human Resources Business Partner

Built on meritocracy, our unique company culture rewards self-starters and those who are committed to doing what is best for our customers.

Brown & Brown is seeking a Human Resources Business Partner to join our growing team in Canada.

The Human Resources Business Partner will provide leadership and strategic Human Resources (HR) operational support for our Canadian offices through business partnerships with operational and sales leaders.

• Culture: Understands the Brown & Brown structure, philosophy, and overall culture and works diligently to support profit centers through Team Resources shared services.

• Internal Client Relationship Management: Manage relationships with the Regional President(s) and Profit Center Leaders (PCL) and act as a business partner to them in growing their business, building high levels of professional credibility and mutual trust, and mobilizing appropriate internal and/or external resources to support in delivering business strategy and plans.

• Functional Strategy Formation: Collaborates with counterparts and leaders to implement best practices within the profit centers, ensuring integration with HR strategic goals and consistency across all regions.

  • Collaborates to develop HR strategies that support business best practices within a profit center and the rollout of said strategy

  • In conjunction with the Regional President(s) and PCL’s, develops recruiting strategies based upon needs analysis, market conditions, and business strategy, to meet current and future staffing needs

  • Provides an experienced business and scale mindset; Delivers guidance and input on business unit structures, organizational transformation, workforce planning and succession planning

  • Acts as an internal consultant by analyzing trends and recommending solutions to HR issues

  • Collaborate with HR leadership to recruit, train, develop and coach HR specialist teammates

  • Maintain the Canadian Teammate Handbook

  • Consults with legal counsel as appropriate; Partners with Finance leaders

  • Supports due diligence and people integrations strategies for M&A activities

• Information and Business Advice: Provide authoritative specialist advice to leaders  to enable the implementation of policy, training, change initiatives and other projects.

• Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging:  Cultivates an inclusive workplace; Fosters a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging; Influences teambuilding that thrives on diversity of talent, which helps deliver innovative solutions for our customers.

• Employment Practices Case Management: Investigate and propose solutions for complex and/or high level Employment Practices (EP) cases in liaison with  team leaders

• Policy and Procedures: Uses expertise to act as the organizational authority on HR initiatives and best practices, while ensuring alignment with organizational strategies, objectives, and compliance standards.

  • Collaborate with EP Care Center and Recruiting Care Center leaders to ensure all HR policies and practices comply with Canadian laws

  • Coordinate with Payroll and Total Rewards teams to deploy enterprise tools and resources to support Canadian teammates

  • Conduct regular HR compliance audits

  • Privacy, and Health & Safety laws

  • Leave of Absence management

• Recruiting and Workforce Planning: Applies expertise to act as the organizational authority on ensuring the organization can recruit people with the skills it needs to achieve competitive advantage, while also balancing its resources to meet short-term and long-term strategic goals.

  • Develop recruitment strategies tailored to the Canadian labor market that utilize the strengths of the Talent Acquisition team

  • Work with counterparts plus divisional business partners in Finance (DCFO) and Technology Solutions (DCIO) as needed to conduct workforce planning

  • Support international hiring and immigration needs

  • Align onboarding processes to integrate new hires effectively

  • Working with Communications & Branding, deploy marketing campaign strategies in Canada to amplify talent interests for each office

  • Ensures compliance with all laws including pay transparency, recruiting, and work authorization

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills & Experience to Be Successful:

• 10+ years of experience in a leadership/managerial capacity with a significant focus on Human Resources (HR) and Talent Acquisition in Canada. 

• Proven results leading HR teams and developing them to the next level, setting priorities, allocating resources, taking accountability, and achieving measurable goals.

• Demonstrated knowledge of multiple human resource disciplines.  Knowledge of applicable laws and regulations related to HR & business practices; strong business acumen.

• Direct experience scaling organizations efficiently and effectively, with ability to anticipate and proactively support growth-related changes.

• Expertise in diversity, inclusion and belonging, and has developed performance-based cultures with strong employee retention.

• Experience working across multiple digital platforms to organize and manage parallel workstreams (e.g., MS Office, Teams, SharePoint, Workday, DocuSign, etc.)

• Record of forging partnerships with Finance and other internal stakeholders, developing long-term workforce plans and talent forecasts, recruiting metrics and reports, and recruiting strategies.

• Reputation as a decisive, results-oriented leader and thought partner.

The Power to Be Yourself  

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Brown & Brown is committed to fostering an inclusive environment comprised of people from all backgrounds, with a variety of experiences and perspectives, guided by our Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (DIB) motto, “The Power to Be Yourself”.