Head of People

3 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Cognia Law Full time

**Cognia Law is recruiting an inspiring Head of People who will motivate the team to think big**
**Company Profile**
Cognia seamlessly extends corporates, banks and law firms’ legal capability to deliver sustainable outcomes. Our goal is to connect the legal sector, moving it from a siloed approach to integrated partnerships. We help in-house legal teams by bringing simplicity to complex matters and replacing broken procedures with efficient processes.
Cognia is a Chambers-ranked law company which integrates how legal services are provided so our team, partners, clients and communities thrive together with people at the heart of what we do. We encourage our people to bring their whole self to work and focus on enabling them to realise their full potential.
**Role Description**
**Key Responsibilities**:

- Co create an ambitious and progressive global people strategy with the goal of making Cognia the best possible place to work in the legal sector, enhancing productivity and fast tracking Cognia’s growth plans
- Support the CEO and leadership team with thought leadership relating to all elements of people leadership
- Drive the employee experience agenda across all areas of the employee life cycle, recognising a consistent and positive employee experience that fuels business growth
- Shape leadership development, enabling leaders to live the Cognia culture and getting the best out of every team member
- Support the CEO and the organisation in co creating the culture needed to support Cognia’s growth plans and support this shift via various cultural levers, including leadership development, policy change, internal communication and HR practices (OD, performance management etc)
- Transform the learning agenda, recognising that learning is a key driver of engagement and critical in a rapidly changing VUCA world
- Lead the reward strategy, which includes financial and non financial incentive schemes, with a particular focus on recognition
- Ensure a market leading approach to diversity and inclusion, enabling Cognia to build diverse and talented teams, providing them with an inclusive culture, which enables them to bring their best selves to work
- Champion wellbeing, ensuring that this is a key part of Cognia’s inclusive culture
- Inspire, develop and mentor the HR team to ensure that they are focused on delivering an excellent and consistent employee experience to the business and they are supported by the most appropriate digital tools
- Drive the internal communications approach, as this is a key enabler of cultural change
- Ensure Cognia is legally compliant (from an employment law perspective) in all the markets in which it operates
- Using latest thinking in people practices, via regular external and internal scanning and employee listening, develop progressive HR initiatives, policies and practices

Honest communication
- Creates channels for communication across Cognia and the different functions
- Constructively express challenging and sensitive views at senior level, whilst maintaining balance and respect for others
- Proactively communicates Cognia’s offerings and services externally

Being agile
- A self starter
- Drives new approaches across teams, creates environment where flexibility and adaptability are rewarded
- Gathers wide ranging and novel information, ideas and possible approaches to inform strategy development

Bringing the values alive
- Acts as role model and champion for Cognia values
- Demonstrates continual self-development and recognises that they must continue to learn and grow
- Encourages managers to pay attention to own well-being, self-development and self-awareness and to that of their colleagues

Building strong relationships
- Encourages others to harness and maximises the teams’ skills and experience
- Removes barriers to cross-functional working, ensuring effective dispersed teams
- Actively builds and nurtures network across industry and sectors who provide market data, advice, guidance and new business opportunities
- Champions employee development, ensures development opportunities are in place and managers are held accountable for developing employees

Delivering excellence
- Develops and implements models and frameworks for success
- Focuses strategically and proactively on approaches that deliver the best outcomes
- Uses data and feedback to anticipate issues and address them
- Cultivate an environment that supports continuous improvement, e.g. allowing mistakes without impacting end quality to client
- Does not let operational challenges or issues become obstacles to reaching end goal

**Requirements**:
Job Requirements:

- Action orientated and inquisitive by nature, you will be able to clearly demonstrate the positive impact you have had on businesses you’ve been part of, having delivered transformative programmes that resulted in radical improvements in commercial performance and organisational culture
- You will be an inclusive, inspiring leader,

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