About the role
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
As a Senior HRBP supporting Commercial Banking, for COO, Commercial Credit & RBC Origins, you will provide strategic advice and counsel to Commercial Banking Operating Committee (OC) members and their Senior Leadership teams on all aspects of talent including talent management, organizational design, change management, workforce management, culture and inclusion, leadership and employee development, performance management and rewards and recognition. You will report to the VP, HR, Commercial Banking.
What outcomes will you drive?
The following are key outcomes that you will drive in the HRBP role. Although listed separately, they often overlap and one influences the other. Your role will require you to constantly prioritize, re-prioritize, and integrate these outcomes:
- Strategy Development and Execution. In your role, it will be key that you understand both the HR and Commercial Banking strategic priorities and key initiatives and are working with your Leaders to determine people and organization implications for their teams. You will be an active force in imagining how the strategies apply and in determining initiatives to ensure they are executed within the teams you support.
- Advice and Consultation. The people-related questions and issues a Leader faces every day are as unique as the individuals that make up RBC. You will partner effectively with Leaders and additional partners to provide advice and counsel on how to resolve issues and concerns in a way that meets the needs of the individual and the organization. You will also use HR data analysis to inform decisions and recommend actions.
- Talent Management. You will work with the leadership team on various talent strategies focused on attracting, developing and retaining high-performing employees. This includes advising on workforce and succession planning, creating effective retention and engagement strategies and coaching on performance management. This also includes coaching the Leaders themselves, where you will provide feedback and formal development recommendations.
- Organization Development and Change. You will help the business adapt and navigate organizational transitions while ensuring people-related initiatives are aligned with outlined outcomes. This includes driving effectiveness, improving team performance and optimizing organizational design. You will also help Leaders manage the employee impacts of change through communication and training.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have:
- Proven experience advising senior executive leaders and supporting change and transformation in a large, complex sophisticated organizations. This experience could have been gained in a similar HR business partner or COE role or as a management consultant working with challenging and complex clients.
- Experience in continually assessing the changing needs of the business and designing long-term solutions with partners to ensure optimal people practices and business outcomes.
- Can think strategically while being able to dive into the details when required. Strong consultative orientation and relationship management capabilities including the ability to impact, influence, and constructively challenge senior leaders
- Undergraduate degree, preferably in Human Resources
- Strong business and financial acumen
- Ability to prioritize high volume, competing priorities for multiple stakeholders and in turn deliver balance of advice and counsel with strong execution capabilities
- Ability to collect, identify, analyze, and interpret business data using various techniques to meet needs and requirements, and make recommendations with results drawn from the data analysis
- Ability to understand, assess and respond to complex situations and provide strategic and innovative solutions to drive results
- Solid aptitude for change management capabilities and leadership effectiveness
- An effective user and champion of technology.
Nice-to-have:
- CHRL Professional Designation
- Understanding of Commercial Banking
Location:
- Toronto – In office role
What’s in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- An opportunity to do great and meaningful work with lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- Opportunities to take on progressively greater scopes of work
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:
2025-09-26
Application Deadline:
2025-10-10
Note**:** Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
I****nclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment
At 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.
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About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact.
La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais
Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social.
About the role
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
As a Senior HRBP supporting Commercial Banking, for COO, Commercial Credit & RBC Origins, you will provide strategic advice and counsel to Commercial Banking Operating Committee (OC) members and their Senior Leadership teams on all aspects of talent including talent management, organizational design, change management, workforce management, culture and inclusion, leadership and employee development, performance management and rewards and recognition. You will report to the VP, HR, Commercial Banking.
What outcomes will you drive?
The following are key outcomes that you will drive in the HRBP role. Although listed separately, they often overlap and one influences the other. Your role will require you to constantly prioritize, re-prioritize, and integrate these outcomes:
- Strategy Development and Execution. In your role, it will be key that you understand both the HR and Commercial Banking strategic priorities and key initiatives and are working with your Leaders to determine people and organization implications for their teams. You will be an active force in imagining how the strategies apply and in determining initiatives to ensure they are executed within the teams you support.
- Advice and Consultation. The people-related questions and issues a Leader faces every day are as unique as the individuals that make up RBC. You will partner effectively with Leaders and additional partners to provide advice and counsel on how to resolve issues and concerns in a way that meets the needs of the individual and the organization. You will also use HR data analysis to inform decisions and recommend actions.
- Talent Management. You will work with the leadership team on various talent strategies focused on attracting, developing and retaining high-performing employees. This includes advising on workforce and succession planning, creating effective retention and engagement strategies and coaching on performance management. This also includes coaching the Leaders themselves, where you will provide feedback and formal development recommendations.
- Organization Development and Change. You will help the business adapt and navigate organizational transitions while ensuring people-related initiatives are aligned with outlined outcomes. This includes driving effectiveness, improving team performance and optimizing organizational design. You will also help Leaders manage the employee impacts of change through communication and training.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have:
- Proven experience advising senior executive leaders and supporting change and transformation in a large, complex sophisticated organizations. This experience could have been gained in a similar HR business partner or COE role or as a management consultant working with challenging and complex clients.
- Experience in continually assessing the changing needs of the business and designing long-term solutions with partners to ensure optimal people practices and business outcomes.
- Can think strategically while being able to dive into the details when required. Strong consultative orientation and relationship management capabilities including the ability to impact, influence, and constructively challenge senior leaders
- Undergraduate degree, preferably in Human Resources
- Strong business and financial acumen
- Ability to prioritize high volume, competing priorities for multiple stakeholders and in turn deliver balance of advice and counsel with strong execution capabilities
- Ability to collect, identify, analyze, and interpret business data using various techniques to meet needs and requirements, and make recommendations with results drawn from the data analysis
- Ability to understand, assess and respond to complex situations and provide strategic and innovative solutions to drive results
- Solid aptitude for change management capabilities and leadership effectiveness
- An effective user and champion of technology.
Nice-to-have:
- CHRL Professional Designation
- Understanding of Commercial Banking
Location:
- Toronto – In office role
What’s in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- An opportunity to do great and meaningful work with lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- Opportunities to take on progressively greater scopes of work
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:
2025-09-26
Application Deadline:
2025-10-10
Note**:** Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
I****nclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment
At 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.
Join our Talent Community
Stay in-the-know about great career opportunities at RBC. Sign up and get customized info on our latest jobs, career tips and Recruitment events that matter to you.
Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC. Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com.
About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact.
La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais
Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social.