About the Role
As Senior Manager, HR Strategy & Enablement, you will be part of a dynamic team that helps set the strategic direction for the HR function. You will support senior executives in key business operations and partner across HR to activate, integrate, and communicate strategic initiatives, ensuring HR's continued success.
Responsibilities
- Drive the activation of HR Strategy and strategic planning process, including building HR capabilities and prioritizing HR initiatives.
- Support the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and HR Brand, Marketing, Communications & Citizenship Operating Committee (HR-BMCC OC) with engagement on HR Strategy and other key strategic priorities.
- Prepare Board and related materials.
- Take end-to-end ownership of workstreams on strategic initiatives, including research, data analysis, and collaboration with other functions.
- Build high-standard presentations, reports, and dashboards for senior leadership to facilitate data-driven decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or graduate degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Data Science, or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of experience in strategy, management consulting, or enterprise HR roles with proven success leading complex, multi-functional initiatives at scale.
- Proven track record of translating ambiguous business problems into testable hypotheses and data-driven recommendations for C-suite audiences.
- Proven track record of designing primary and secondary research to validate strategic assumptions and inform enterprise decisions.
- Ability to sense-check findings against business reality.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills with the ability to distil complex analytical findings into clear, compelling narratives for senior executives.
- Demonstrated success building high-impact presentations, reports, and visual assets that drive decision-making and influence stakeholder alignment.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional workstreams end-to-end while managing ambiguity, tight timelines, and competing priorities with discipline and transparency.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel at expert level; Word; PowerPoint).
- Working knowledge of emerging productivity tools, including Large Language Models for task automation and work product augmentation.
Skills
- Adaptability
- Analytical Thinking
- Communication
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Data Analysis
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Professional Presentation
- Senior Leader Engagement
- Strategic Analysis
- Strategic Planning
- SQL
- Python
- R
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Looker
Location
- ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTO
- Toronto
- Canada
Work Type
- Full time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's or graduate degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Data Science, or equivalent professional experience
Benefits
- Exposure to leading-edge strategy, enablement and communications work for RBC’s global Human Resources group.
- Supportive, inclusive culture and a team that celebrates your unique perspectives, background and experience so you can bring your whole self to work, every day.
- Leaders who are invested in your success and provide opportunities to learn, grow and to try new things.
About the Company
- At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC.
- We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world.
- Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities.
- RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
