Senior Manager People & Culture Business Partnerships

Are you a strategic, people-centered leader with strong business acumen and a proven ability to translate organizational priorities into impactful people strategies?

The Senior Manager, People & Culture Business Partnerships plays a critical leadership role in shaping and executing people strategies that enable organizational performance. As a key member of the departmental management team, you ensure that workforce priorities are fully integrated into business planning and execution.

Accountable for both strategy and delivery, you lead the People & Culture Business Partnerships function within your portfolio and overseeing Managers, People & Culture Partnerships and their teams. You drive workforce planning, organizational change, and people solutions at scale, partnering with senior and executive leaders to influence direction, align priorities, and deliver sustainable, high-impact outcomes.

How you’ll make a difference: You’ll build and empower teams that serve workers and employers across B.C.  

Where you’ll work

At WorkSafeBC, we offer a hybrid work model that combines working remotely, and in our offices, based on the operational needs of the position.

In this role, you will work primarily from our Richmond Office with some flexibility to work from your home in B.C.

• Lead the development and execution of People & Culture strategies aligned with departmental and divisional priorities.
• Embed people priorities into departmental business planning, ensuring clear objectives, resource alignment, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead and oversee Managers, People & Culture Partnerships, ensuring consistent, high-quality, and timely service delivery across teams.
• Optimize service delivery models, priorities, and resourcing to meet evolving business and operational needs.
• Provide direction on complex, high-impact people matters across all People & Culture disciplines, including workforce planning, organizational change, recruitment, labour relations, and compensation.
• Lead the departmental labour relations environment, including union relationships, joint consultation processes, and proactive resolution of systemic issues.
• Drive workforce planning, including forecasting, implementation, ongoing monitoring, and adjustment to meet short- and long-term business needs.
• Monitor outcomes, assess trends, and take action to adjust strategies, priorities, and resources to improve effectiveness and achieve objectives.
• Consistently models the appropriate level of organizational behaviours expected of all WorkSafeBC employees: responsive, respectful, fair, collaborative, accountable, and forward thinking.

We’re looking for someone/people who can:

• Lead and develop high-performing leaders and teams, setting direction and driving accountability for results.
• Influence and partner with senior and executive leaders to shape decisions and outcomes.
• Translate complex business needs into clear, integrated people and culture strategies.
• Navigate complexity and ambiguity, making sound decisions in sensitive and high-impact situations.
• Drive workforce planning and organizational change initiatives that deliver measurable results.
• Provide direction on complex people matters across multiple People & Culture disciplines.
• Build strong, trusted relationships and foster a collaborative, service-oriented environment.
• Monitor and adjust priorities, balancing strategic objectives with operational demands.

Your background and experience

• University degree in Human Resources Management or a related field.
• A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in human resources, including leadership accountability.
• Experience operating at a leadership level, influencing strategy and delivering business-aligned people solutions
• Depth of experience across core People & Culture disciplines, including workforce planning, labour relations, organizational design, recruitment, compensation, and change management.
• Experience navigating complex, unionized environments and applying collective agreements in practice.

We’ll consider equivalent combinations of education and experience.

Important to know

Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

• Consent to a criminal record check.
• Confirm you’re legally entitled to work in Canada.

Who we are

At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We’re honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.

What’s it like to work at WorkSafeBC?

It’s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.

Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.

Learn more: Discover who we are.

Our benefits

As a member of our team, you’ll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work — and life.  Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:

Learn more: Find out what we offer.

Salary: $142,909.00 - $173,634.00/annually

Want to apply?

• Applications are welcomed immediately; however, must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. PST on the closing date.
• Please note that we will be starting assessments prior to the closing date.

We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. If you require an accommodation in the assessment process, please email Recruitment Testing Accommodation (SM) when you submit your application.

Any additional application materials must be received by email to HR Talent Acquisition (SM) by 4:30 p.m. PST on the closing date of the competition.