Description
Join a team at the center of one of WSP's most important growth strategies as a Specialist, IT M&A People Integration and Workforce Planning. You will help shape how people, talent, and organizational capacity are integrated across acquisitions within Global IT.
Your Impact
- Drive workforce planning activities that support the successful integration of acquired organizations into WSP's Global IT environment.
- Develop and maintain workforce, headcount, and labour-cost models that provide visibility into talent, organizational structures, and resource requirements.
- Transform workforce data into actionable capacity plans that support integration schedules, transition planning, and future organizational needs.
- Partner with HR and business leaders to coordinate talent assessment activities, retention planning, knowledge-transfer initiatives, and workforce transitions.
- Monitor workforce-related synergies, labour costs, and integration investments to support informed business decisions and value realization.
- Produce meaningful workforce reporting, forecasts, and governance materials for senior leadership and integration stakeholders.
- Identify workforce risks, critical talent dependencies, and capacity constraints while helping teams proactively address challenges.
- Safeguard highly confidential workforce and compensation information while promoting strong governance, compliance, and operational discipline.
The Skills That Set You Apart
- 5-8 years of experience in workforce planning, HR business partnering, organizational change, M&A integration, or a related strategic people function.
- Demonstrated experience handling confidential employee, workforce, and compensation information with professionalism and discretion.
- Strong expertise in workforce analytics, labour-cost planning, headcount modelling, forecasting, or benefits realization tracking.
- Experience supporting resource planning, capacity management, organizational transitions, or transformation initiatives in complex environments.
- Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across functions without direct authority in matrixed organizations.
- Advanced Excel capabilities and strong analytical skills, with experience building and maintaining large, accurate workforce datasets.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to present concise insights to senior leaders.
- Experience with HRIS, ERP, workforce reporting tools, Power BI, M&A environments, and bilingualism in English and French are considered strong assets.
Compensation
- AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $89,800 - $118,900
- MB & ON: $81,900 - $112,800
- NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $81,100 - $107,700