At Acumen Strategy Consultants people are at the center of how we create impact. Were looking for an HR & Organization Development Associate who brings not just administrative skills but the mindset and capability to help execute people strategies that drive performance culture and engagement.

This role goes beyond traditional HR operations. Youll play a key part in translating HR and OD strategies into seamless execution across the entire employee journey from recruitment and onboarding to performance learning engagement and offboarding. If youre energized by building systems improving processes and creating meaningful employee experiences wed love to meet you.

What Youll Do

• Strategic Execution & Operational Excellence
• Execute programs aligned with our People Strategy to support growth culture-building and talent development.
• Drive process efficiency across the employee lifecycle by maintaining structured systems and tracking key people metrics.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the employee experience and organizational capability.

Core Responsibilities

1. Talent Acquisition: You will manage and continuously improve the end-to-end recruitment process ensuring a seamless candidate experience and alignment with team needs through data-informed hiring practices.
2. Onboarding & Enablement: You will lead the coordination of onboarding and enablement journeys creating structured transitions that accelerate new hires integration and readiness to contribute.
3. Learning & Development: You will serve as a project manager for learning programs ensuring all sessions are well-executed tracked and optimized to support capability-building across roles.
4. Employee Engagement & Culture Programs: Youll bring our values to life by coordinating culture-building and engagement initiatives that foster connection alignment and team morale.
5. People Team Communications: You will craft and manage internal communications that keep the tribe informed aligned and engaged with key people initiatives and updates.
6. Performance Management Support: You will oversee the implementation of our quarterly performance management process ensuring prompt completion data consolidation and support for developmental conversations.
7. Compensation & Benefits Administration: You will handle payroll coordination leave tracking and benefits administration ensuring our people systems are accurate timely and fully compliant with statutory requirements.
8. Offboarding & HR Operations: Youll ensure offboarding is managed professionally and consistently while maintaining updated employee records and generating insights through timely HR reporting.

Who Youll Work With

You will report directly to the Head of People and to the President.

You will manage internal stakeholders such as the Leadership Team Mancom colleagues from other support functions and Employees and Affiliates of Acumen.

Qualifications

• You have at least Five (5) years experience in Human Resources ideally in dynamic project-driven environments
• You are organized proactive and love working behind the scenes to make things work smoothly
• You understand the power of employee experience and want to shape it strategically not just administratively
• You are confident handling day-to-day operations while contributing to people and culture initiatives that move the organization forward

• Demonstrated Strengths in:
  • Talent Acquisition - able to successfully source and screen talents manage the entire process and ensure representing the brand during the selection process.
  • Project Management detail oriented organized in keeping track of tasks deadlines and resources to ensure timely delivery and success outcomes
  • Communication Skills - speaking and writing with clarity and confidence building trust and engagement
  • Shares the Acumen values on Integrity Humility Learning & Adventure Holistic Wellness Teamwork & Collaboration

Why join Acumen Strategy Consultants

Acumen is committed to the success and well-being of all its employees and affiliate consultants. We give high regard to empowering relationships and we invest in resources (time talent treasure) to foster a high-performing environment that values and supports our people in pursuit of challenging goals.

Compensation & Benefits. We ensure optimal levels of employee performance in meeting the organizations strategic objectives through providing competitive rewards and recognition programs that include:

• Leave program that allows for paid vacation health-related parental (maternity paternity) bereavement and emergency time off
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage for members
• Financial assistance and gifts for selected life events
• Hybrid way of working remote office equipment support
• Accelerate growth through and impact through diversity of learnings and teams

Career Development & Stability. We provide opportunities to learn from seasoned C-level practitioners and consultants and gain new experiences while helping brands and businesses across different industries.

Culture of Trust & Collaboration. We build an organizational culture that is deeply rooted in trust and collaboration by making our employees feel safe and valued.

Agile Work Environment. We help discover new passions pursue interests and have time for the most important people in your life through working in an agile environment.

Industry: Management Consulting

Employment Type: Full time

Work set-up: Hybrid but required to be onsite for face-to-face workshops and meetings as needed.