As Vice President, Human Resources, Julie’s focus is on developing and optimizing Allan Candy’s most important asset: People. Accountable for enabling the achievement of the company’s operational and financial goals through innovative Human Resources policies and processes, communications and employee engagement programs, she is also directly accountable for providing overall strategic direction and leadership to the Human Resources team. Specifically, she is accountable for managing the areas of organizational planning and development, talent optimization and performance, culture development and transformation, employee relations, compensation, rewards & recognition, communications, payroll and health & safety.
 

Julie joined Allan Candy in February 2009 from the Consumer and Personal Care products division of Johnson & Johnson Inc., Canada, where she held the role of Senior Manager Human Resources. In this role, Julie was an integral member of the Human Resources Leadership team, and in 2008 she oversaw the implementation of key People Management Leadership Development programs and facilitated the efforts of a Global HR system implementation. In 2006, Julie was instrumental to the success of a number of strategic initiatives, such as the very successful acquisition and integration of the Pfizer Consumer Healthcare Business to Johnson & Johnson, where she assumed leadership of the Change Management and Culture Transformation Team for Canada, the Talent Assessment and Organizational Development efforts of the Sales organization, and acted as the Canadian voice on the Johnson & Johnson Global Integration team. Since her start in 2002, Julie has held progressively more senior leadership roles, and acted as business partner for various functions, including Sales, Marketing, Finance, Customer Logistics, Regulatory Affairs, and Linguistic services. Julie is an experienced Human Resources leader and active member of the Professional Human Resources Association.