Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Human Resources Business Partner, AI Group

Royal Bank of Canada • $100K — $130K *
Toronto, ON M3C 0E3In-Person
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
4 days ago
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Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of HR experience, preferably as a consultant or in a tech environment
  • Strong background in organizational design and change management
  • Ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership
  • Expertise in talent strategy and workforce planning
  • Experience with data analysis to inform HR decisions
  • Strong problem-solving skills in complex situations
  • Familiarity with HR technology and tools

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose and troubleshoot organizational challenges through data analysis
  • Design and implement effective organizational structures and processes
  • Lead and manage large-scale change initiatives and transformations
  • Collaborate with leadership to develop and execute talent management strategies
  • Align HR initiatives with business strategies and objectives
  • Utilize Centers of Excellence and TED resources to meet business goals

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic, collaborative, high-performing team
  • Challenging work that promotes professional growth
  • Ongoing opportunities to build client relationships
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the opportunity?

As the Senior HRBP for AI Group, reporting to the VP of HR, AI Group, you will bring a consulting-grade lens to HR partnership, diagnosing organizational problems, designing solutions, and driving implementation. This role positions you as a strategic business partner to Operating Committee (OC) members and their Senior Leadership teams, with core accountability for organizational design, organizational effectiveness, and transformation leadership alongside traditional talent and people strategy responsibilities.

What You Will Do

  • Bring a consulting-grade lens to HR partnership - Diagnose organizational problems, design solutions, and drive implementation. Partner effectively with Leaders and HR experts to provide strategic advice and counsel on resolving people-related issues. Be conversant with HR data and analysis to inform decision-making and recommend actions around talent, engagement, diversity and inclusion, and organizational outcomes.
  • Lead org design and org effectiveness work as a core part of the role - Diagnose how teams and functions are actually working and build plans to improve them. Help Leaders utilize organizational levers-structure, systems, leadership, and culture-to achieve desired results and engagement. Design and implement organizational structures (spans, layers, role architecture) to enable business strategy.
  • Drive transformation and change at pace - Own adoption of organizational changes, not just announcement. Lead change at scale across complex, multi-stakeholder environments, understanding adoption, resistance, and how to move organizations through transformation from design through embedded outcomes.
  • Enable the people strategy for the group - Work with the leadership team to acquire, assess, and develop talent for today and tomorrow. Recommend ways to develop people to perform current roles and prepare them for future roles, including informal 1:1 dialogues and managing performance, development, and succession cycles. Provide feedback, coaching, and formal development recommendations to leaders themselves.
  • Execute HR and business strategy - Understand both HR's People and Culture strategy and the business strategies your leaders are designing. Determine people and organization implications, anticipate impacts, and be an active force in imagining how strategies apply locally. Drive the execution of initiatives within the teams you support.
  • Orchestrate CoE and TED resources - Deliver against business priorities by leveraging Centers of Excellence and talent enablement resources.


What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

  • Consulting skills with org design expertise - Structures ambiguous problems; designs and implements org structures (spans, layers, role architecture); brings hypotheses, frameworks, and data to every conversation
  • Executive presence and business acumen - Comfortable presenting to and challenging senior leaders; understands business models and where people decisions create or destroy value; brings thought leadership and acts as a sounding board for senior leaders
  • Organizational effectiveness and change leadership - Diagnoses how teams are actually working, leads change at scale, drives complex multi-stakeholder initiatives from design through embedded outcome, and owns adoption
  • Workforce planning and talent strategy - Builds supply/demand models, runs scenario planning, translates data into business decisions, and makes data-informed talent recommendations
  • Strategic problem-solving - Proven ability to assess complex, ambiguous situations and provide innovative solutions that drive organizational results
  • Strong communications and digital capabilities - Excellent analytical and communication skills; familiar with HR technology and Microsoft Office Suite; undergraduate degree preferred
  • Worked inside a tech scale-up or transformation - Understands pace and how to influence senior technical leaders


Nice-to-have

  • CHRL Professional Designation
  • Good working knowledge and experience with AI


Location:

  • Toronto


What's in it for you?

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
  • The opportunity to work as part of a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • Challenging work that will help you grow professionally
  • Ongoing opportunities to build close relationships with clients


Job Skills
Decision Making, Employee and Labor Relations, Human Resources Consulting, Human Resources Operations, Human Resources Policies, Knowledge Organization, Long Term Planning, Organizational Change Management, Talent Management

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

HUMAN RESOURCES & BMCC

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-06-30

Application Deadline:

2026-07-13
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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86,007 employees
Market Cap
$130.3 billion
Industry
Finance & Insurance
5 Year Trend
+8.7%
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