NedGraphics™ is the leading provider of textile design and CAD / CAM software solutions for the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and other textile markets. Our products allow designers to exercise unconstrained creative freedom while improving efficiency, productivity, time to market, and accuracy to create production-ready artwork. NedGraphics' solutions play an important role in promoting sustainability through digitization by optimizing product development workflows, eliminating design errors, and reducing sampling costs. NedGraphics provides dedicated tools for print, woven, and knitted fabric design, carpet and tuft, color management and calibration, virtual product visualization, storyboard presentation, merchandising, and more. The portfolio also includes a collection of professional textile and apparel design plug-ins for Adobe® Illustrator® & Photoshop®, named 'NedGraphics for Adobe®’. NedGraphics Software is part of FOG Software Group, a division of Constellation Software Inc. (TSX:CSU). FOG Software Group acquires, manages, and builds software companies in a variety of vertical markets, enabling them to be clear leaders in their industries.

The Vice President of Human Resources (VP HR) will report to the Portfolio Manager of Dorado Software Group, a portfolio of global businesses (currently across North America, Europe, UK, the Middle East, South America, India, and APAC) as well as collaborate closely with senior leadership of the portfolio and all the underlying businesses to translate their strategies into progressive HR practices, fostering an engaged, collaborative, and high-performance culture.

The VP HR will be instrumental in talent acquisition, development, engagement, and retention across the organization, its portfolio companies/business units (“BUs”), and new acquisitions. This is an extraordinary opportunity for a high potential people leader to drive strategy, and play a critical role in the employment experience of hundreds of employees around the world.

Responsibilities:
HR Strategy

Develop and execute the people strategy and its implementation, acting as a strong coach to the Dorado senior leadership team to support and improve their approach to people management and development
Partner with BU CEOs and management teams to establish the people function as a shared resource that adds value without introducing centralized bureaucracy
Be the leader who is sought after for advice and counsel on people, cultural, and organizational issues

M&A

Collaborate with M&A leaders to address key people-related issues during acquisitions and provide guidance and preparation for integration
Collaborate with cross-functional leadership teams such as Operations, IT, Finance, and Legal to execute seamless integration across global entities
Develop change management tactics to support organizational changes, positioning the portfolio as a frontrunner in innovative human capital practices for attracting and retaining top talent
Employee Engagement, Reward & Recognition
- Design and deliver strategic employee engagement initiatives and projects which effectively address people issues and support an excellent employee experience, and coach management and staff to drive towards this at all times
- Consistently benchmark compensation and benefits offerings, ensuring that the BUs remain competitive and in a strong position to both attract and retain top talent
- Proactively research creative ways to reward and recognize staff including non-monetary compensation

Talent Management & Succession Planning

Drive Talent management processes across the portfolio, and coach managers and staff on the process and its value
Ensure that strong succession plans are in place across Dorado and partner with people managers to ensure successor ‘readiness’
Ensure performance improvement plans and development plans are actioned
Learning & Development
- Promote learning and development; ensuring training needs are being proactively addressed by both staff and management

Recruitment and Onboarding

Develop and direct talent acquisition strategies, guiding BU leadership and external recruiters to fill critical roles, leading the recruitment, assessment, and management of key hires
Build a strong employer brand and employee value proposition which positions our BUs as employers of choice

Policies and Procedures

Continuously improve policies and procedures to ensure that they are robust, easy to understand and aligned with market offerings
Ensure compliance to HR policies and procedures via coaching and training and addressing non-compliance promptly

Employee Relations

Proactively partner with managers to ensure employee relations issues are addressed
Coach line managers on risk of actions, communications etc. and build confidence in participation in difficult conversations and potential disputes

HR Insights & Reporting

Provide useful HR insights and key people operational metrics on a regular and ad hoc basis to portfolio and BU leadership

Travel to offices in other international locations to provide HR support as necessary or attend events

Qualifications for Success:

A university degree or equivalent HR certification with a minimum of 7 years of progressive HR leadership experience within growing, acquisitive, global, and complex organizations.
Experience in enterprise software companies and/or highly acquisitive organizations is preferred.
Track record of success in operational turnarounds and managing human capital aspects of M&A activities.
Experience working in global organizations, demonstrating effective interaction and relationship-building skills across diverse cultural backgrounds.
Proven ability to drive strategic initiatives across all organizational levels, fostering a culture of agility, mentorship, and HR shared services model enhancement.
Adept at building high-performance teams, identifying top talent, and creating employee-focused frameworks to engage and motivate individuals.

Location: Remote - either New York, Toronto, or London preferred, with occasional travel

Reporting Relationship: Reports to Portfolio Manager, Dorado Software Group

Company Description
Dorado Software Group currently includes portfolio companies NedGraphics and Optitex. NedGraphics (www.nedgraphics.com) provides specialized CAD/CAM design software for fashion, retail, home textiles, carpet and flooring, and other textile industries. Optitex (www.optitex.com) is the leading global provider of integrated 2D/3D product development software solutions for the fashion, apparel, transportation interiors, and furniture markets.
Both NedGraphics and Optitex solutions improve customers’ sustainability by enabling them to reduce material sampling and production waste. The Dorado portfolio is expanding its focus to broader sustainability technologies, such as greentech and cleantech, including circularity, supply chain traceability, renewable energy, regenerative agriculture, clean water, biodiversity and beyond.

Dorado Software Group is a division of Constellation Software (www.csisoftware.com) which is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:CSU) and has a market cap of approximately $100B CAD. We acquire, manage, and build mission-critical vertical market software companies that are located all over the world. Constellation has completed over 1,000 acquisitions since inception in 1995 across dozens of industries.
As is Constellation’s unique model, Dorado Software buys and holds companies forever, which requires continuous investment in our businesses - their products, brands, and people - and a long-term horizon for strategic decisions. We are all about strengthening these businesses and enabling them to grow – whether through organic measures such as new initiatives and product development, day-to-day business, or through acquisitions.

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