Simon Ojiefoh

I’m a strategic, business-focused HR leader with a proven track record of transforming workplace culture, strengthening employee engagement, and improving retention. I build high-trust relationships with executives while navigating complex labor relations, driving change, and ensuring full compliance with employment legislation.

In my roles as Human Resources Manager, I’ve led full-cycle HR operations—workforce planning, recruitment and onboarding, performance management, investigations, and disciplinary processes—while aligning HR strategy to business objectives. At Canada Packers, I led HR components of a corporate spin-off and created an Overtime Management Process that improved fairness and generated $80,000 in annual cost savings, plus a centralized Workforce Master Lineup that reduced grievances by 45% related to job assignments and promotions.

Previously at Maple Leaf Foods, I reduced employee turnover by 67% over three years, supported an alternative immigration pathway to enable international hiring, and negotiated a six-year union contract that averted a potential work stoppage. Earlier, as an HR & Health & Safety Manager, I modernized processes by automating performance appraisals, improving operational efficiency, and strengthening HSE outcomes—earning measurable reductions in onsite incidents, WCB claims, and grievances.