Human Resources Business Partner

The Role

The Human Resources Business Partner plays a key role in supporting the full employee lifecycle and delivering day-to-day HR support to employees, managers, and executives across Canada, the US, and the UK. This role operates as a partner to the business ensuring effective delivery of core HR processes, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, employee relations, HR operations.

The ideal candidate is a proactive, detail-oriented self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset who thrives in a fast-paced environment and embraces a “no job is too big or too small” approach.

Responsibilities

Business Partnership / Employee Relations

• Support Head of HR, in providing effective coaching, counseling and performance strategies on all employee relations situations in alignment with best practices and demonstrating sound understanding of employment law and applicable legislation. 
• Support employee relations efforts by responding to questions, addressing concerns, and assisting HR leadership with investigations or documentation.
• Maintain HR libraries including job descriptions, policies, and templates.
• Prepare employment verification letters, reports, presentations, and other HR correspondence.

Recruitment & Onboarding

• Manage full-cycle recruitment, including posting job openings, scheduling interviews, prescreening candidates, coordinating candidate communications, and supporting background checks.
• Draft and prepare offer letters, employment confirmations, and other hiring documentation.
• Facilitate new hire onboarding, including system setup, orientation, documentation collection, welcome materials, and coordination with internal stakeholders.
• Ensure smooth offboarding, including HRIS updates, payroll and benefits changes, exit packets, and access removal.

HR Operations & Employee Support

• Maintain and update employee information within HRIS.
• Administer health, dental, vision, and other benefit programs.
• Manage enrollments, changes, terminations, leave of absence claims, and open enrollment processes.
• Provide consultative guidance to employees and managers regarding compensation and benefits policies.
• Prepare employment verification letters, reports, presentations, and other HR correspondence.
• Support compensation programs and salary reviews.

Project Support

• Support HR department projects and initiatives aimed at continuous improvement, automation, and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education with focus on Human Resources or related field preferred.
• 5 years of experience in Human Resources, including HR Business Parter experience.
• Strong knowledge of HR policies, employment law, and best practices in Canada and US (experience with UK legislation considered an asset).
• AI fluency in leveraging AI tools to drive efficiencies and value add improvements
• Continuous improvement mindset to solve individual issues, and to instill best practices or systems thinking to embed processes and solve for future issues
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and professionalism.
• Strong decision-making, problem-solving, and conflict-management skills. 
• Exceptional organization, time management, and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe Suite.

Salary Range: $85,000 - $100,000

1 year temporary leave backfill (expected start date January 18, 2026 – February 2027) 

Boat Rocker is committed to hiring and supporting diverse candidates. We strongly encourage applications from people who identify as being part of an under-represented and equity-deserving group. This would include people who identify as racialized, Black, Indigenous, women, LGBTQ2SI+, and having a disability among others.