Chief Talent Acquisition Director

Presence: Hybrid

Category: Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Reporting to the Vice-President of Career and Talent, the Chief Talent Acquisition Director exercises strategic leadership over all talent acquisition, attraction, mobility, and growth activities in a rapidly transforming, pan-Canadian growth context, and rapid technological evolution.

This role aims to evolve talent acquisition into a more integrated and high-performing capability, capable of attracting the best talent, building winning teams, and a strong organizational culture across the pan-Canadian scale, and positioning the organization as a world-class benchmark for niche markets and critical growth talent.

This role covers a broad scope: a pan-Canadian team of approximately fifty people, high annual recruitment volumes while ensuring a distinctive candidate experience, evolution and performance of the offer and activities related to the employer brand, sourcing, hunting, campus, specialized, and executive recruitment, internal mobility, and diversity of pools, as well as process governance and optimization of already deployed technologies.

This role requires an entrepreneurial and team-oriented mindset, combined with a passion for talent acquisition and supported by an approach that combines strategic vision, fast and rigorous execution, and human and courageous leadership.

Role Impact

This role directly impacts the organization's ability to grow and transform by more closely connecting business needs to talent acquisition strategies and capabilities.

• Evolve the delivery model into a more integrated, consistent, regional, and scalable approach across Canada and ensure fast and rigorous execution.
• Strengthen the employer brand, attraction, sourcing, hunting, and internal and external recruitment capabilities in priority markets and ensure a world-class position for niche markets and critical growth talent.
• Position recruiters as true strategic advisors capable of influencing business decisions, understanding markets, and proactively providing talent acquisition solutions.
• Develop a strong, motivated, high-performing, and future-ready team.
• Improve talent acquisition strategies and talent fluidity and reduce dependence on the external market through prospective market, skills, and talent availability analysis.
• Modernize the function by using new and existing technologies to improve productivity, decision quality, and the experience of candidates, managers, and recruiters.
• Leader Sought

We are seeking a talent transformation leader beyond a recruitment operations manager. The person will stand out by demonstrating the ability to connect talent, technology, data, culture, and business strategy. They will not see AI as just an efficiency tool but as a lever to amplify human expertise, free up valuable time, reposition recruiters as trusted advisors, and deliver even more business value. Their success will specifically depend on: 1. Strategic vision and business understanding: ability to translate business priorities into integrated talent strategy and credibility with business leaders.

2. Team development: ability to establish a winning and high-performing, motivated team, supported by continuous skill and standard development.

3. Executive influence: leadership posture, with a strong team spirit, capable of influencing, challenging, and rallying for measurable results to the benefit of the organization.

4. Functional credibility: bilingualism, understanding of performance and value levers in talent acquisition, understanding of markets and ways to stand out to acquire niche and critical growth expertise.

5. Delivered transformation: concrete examples of changes implemented, adopted, and measured, and demonstrated fast execution capability.

6. AI, data, and technology: maturity in the responsible use of digital and talent intelligence levers to create more value and proactivity in talent acquisition.

Your Benefits

In addition to competitive compensation, we offer, upon your hire, a range of flexible benefits to support your well-being and that of your family, including:

• Health and well-being program including many options
• Flexible group insurance
• Generous retirement plan
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Employee and family assistance program
• Preferred banking services
• Community involvement
• Telemedicine service
• Virtual sleep improvement clinic

We offer an evolving offer that is attuned to trends, your needs, and those of your loved ones.

Our dynamic work environments and modern collaboration tools foster a pleasant employee experience. We place great value on the ideas of our staff members. Whether through our surveys or through our programs, continuous dialogue and feedback are encouraged.

The Boldness to Act in a Human Environment

We are a human-sized bank that stands out for its boldness, entrepreneurial culture, and passion for people. We exist to have a positive impact on people's lives. Our fundamental values of camaraderie, agility, and power to act are our sources of inspiration. Inclusion is at the heart of our commitments. We aim, as much as possible, to offer an obstacle-free work environment and accessible to all employees.

We aim to provide, to the extent of our means, accessibility measures during the recruitment process. If you need accommodation, please let us know during your initial exchanges with us. We welcome candidates and applicants from all backgrounds and would like to know what you can bring to our team.

Join us!

Other required languages: English, French

Skills: Learning agility, Organizational alignment, Managerial courage, Data-driven decisions, Partnership development, Diversity and inclusion, Critical thinking, Strategy execution, Innovation management, Risk management, Gestio