Division: IGM-HR
Location: Winnipeg
IGM Financial Inc. is a leading wealth and asset management company in Canada, managing approximately $310 billion in assets as of December 31, 2025. It offers financial planning and investment services to over two million Canadians through IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie Investments.
Founded in 1926, IG Wealth Management is a key part of IGM's business model, providing comprehensive wealth management services to Canadian financial advisors and their clients.
With a vision to inspire financial confidence, IG Wealth Management is recognized as one of Manitoba’s Top Employers, Canada’s Top 100 Employers, and Best Diversity Employers, aiming to innovate the industry and support Canadians in achieving their financial goals.
Join our team to engage in continuous learning and skill development in a supportive environment. Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work environment, where you spend three days a week in the office, connecting, collaborating, and enjoying quality time with your amazing colleagues! Our Values: Be better; we strive for improvement in everything we do. Be accountable; we foster clarity and are empowered to act responsibly. Be a team; we are united to drive collective impact to achieve our goals.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the AVP, Talent Acquisition, as Director, Talent Acquisition (TA), you will be a strategic partner in leading, evolving, and scaling the enterprise recruitment strategy that fuels our growth. You’ll coach a team of recruiters, elevate hiring excellence across the business, and serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on executive hiring and recruitment capabilities. The role balances hands on leadership and oversight of high impact recruitment with building the systems, insights, partnerships, and brand presence that create a predictable, diverse, and high quality talent engine.
What you’ll do
Strategic leadership & senior stakeholder partnership
As a member of the TA Leadership team, set and continuously refine the enterprise TA strategy aligned to business priorities, and workforce needs; advise senior leaders with market, talent, and competitive insights.
Serve as a thought partner to seniorlevel stakeholders on sensitive, high stakes searches and hiring initiatives; bring clear recommendations and influence to decision-making.
Partner deeply with Business Leaders, HR Business Partners and Centres of Expertise (e.g., Total Rewards, L&D, HR Service Delivery) to integrate TA into organizational plans and people programs.
Executive recruiting & critical roles
Personally lead or oversee endtoend searches for executive and critical roles, ensuring rigorous assessment, values alignment, and a high touch candidate experience from first contact through offer and onboarding.
Provide guidance on assessment, selection, compensation strategy, and negotiations, balancing speed, quality, and long-term fit.
Team leadership, coaching & capability
As a subset of the broader TA team, develop, coach, and mentor a small team of recruiters—raising the bar on consultative recruiting & hiring leader experience, proactive sourcing, judgement & stakeholder management. All while emphasizing the candidate journey
Enable hiring leader capability (e.g., structured interviewing, decision quality) and continue to embed inclusive hiring practices across the business.
TA operations, governance, & analytics
Own TA process health endtoend. Implement bestpractice workflows, consistent operating rhythms, and governance that scales.
Define and report on key TA metrics (e.g., timetofill, qualityofhire, pipeline coverage, passthrough rates, hiring experience) to drive transparency, continuous improvement, and portfolio management.
Manage vendor strategy (agencies, search firms, tools) for quality, cost, and compliance; maintain a centralized agency database and relationships that deliver results.
Technology, innovation & market intelligence
Implement and leverage a modern candidate system and AIenabled recruiting tools to improve sourcing effectiveness, predictability, and candidate experience; pilot innovations with a “how might we improve?” mindset.
Maintain talent market expertise—labour trends, compensation benchmarks, and competitive insights—to inform workforce plans and hiring decisions.
Crossfunctional projects & onboarding partnership
Lead projects within TA (process redesign, tech rollouts, analytics maturation) and represent TA on enterprise initiatives requiring hiring expertise.
Partner with stakeholders to continuously enhance onboarding, ensuring a seamless transition from offer acceptance to productive start.
What you bring
Experience
10+ years in HR with 7+ years in progressive Talent Acquisition and 4+ years leading a recruiting team.
Demonstrated success delivering executive and senior level searches and advising senior leaders on role scoping, assessment, and offer strategy.
Experience operating in complex, matrixed environments (financial services, insurance, banking, large professional services, or mature technology environments considered strong assets).
Proven track record designing & improving processes, workflows, and TA operations.
Skills & attributes
A people-first leader who develops others; brings presence and command with senior stakeholders while fostering collaboration and camaraderie.
Business management acumen: portfolio thinking, reporting/analytics fluency, and an external lens on the competitive landscape.
Technically forward: proficiency with modern ATS/CRM and emerging AIenabled recruiting approaches; SuccessFactors familiarity is an asset.
Serviceoriented, valuedpartner posture—deeply understands the business and anticipates where TA can create meaningful outcomes.
An appetite and curiosity for evolution and an owners-mindset.
Bilingualism (French) considered an asset.
Benefits:
COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION & RECOGNITION: competitive base salary, performance-weighted bonus, education/career support, option to join Employee Share Purchase Plan with employer matching component.
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & INSURANCE: competitive health and dental coverage, flexible plan for you and your family and short-term & long-term disability plans.
RETIREMENT SAVINGS PROGRAMS: voluntary Defined Contribution Pension Plan
WORK LIFE BALANCE: paid volunteer days, competitive time off, including 10 wellness days off, WorkPerks discount program, hybrid & flex work arrangements.
INCLUSIVE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY: living our core values: Be a Team, Be Accountable, Be Better, engaging with community through Business Resource Groups (BRG communities are volunteer employee-led groups formed around a common interest, identity, or background).
The expected annual base salary range for this role is ($128,000- $178,000), which is determined based on skills, knowledge and experience and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for annual short-term incentive, health and well-being benefits, retirement and savings plan, paid time off and career development.
IGM is a diverse workplace committed to doing business inclusively - this starts with having a representative workforce! We encourage applications from all qualified candidates that represent the diversity present across Canada – including racialized persons, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender diverse and neurodiverse individuals, as well as all who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
IG is an accessible employer committed to providing a barrier- free recruitment experience. If you require an accommodation or this information in an alternate format at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team who will work with you to meet your needs.
How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume and a cover letter detailing their qualifications and experience to https://www.ig.ca/en/careers
We thank all applicants for their interest in IG Wealth Management; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Please apply before February 24, 2026.
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