People and Culture Business Partner

**Closing Date**
- 2023/02/17

**Reference Number**
- EXX230207-1

**Exxaro Reference Number**
- P40196325

**Job Title**
- People and Culture Business Partner

**Job Type Classification**
- Permanent

**Location - Town / City**
- Belfast

**Location - Province**
- Mpumalanga

**Location - Country**
- South Africa

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**Job Advert Summary**

**PURPOSE**:

- To operationalise the Group People Strategy, Policy and Processes in area of responsibility. - To ensure a sustainable organisational capability.
- Execute Business Unit medium and short-term people plans. - To lead the building of the Business Unit People and Culture plan.

**MAJOR CHALLENGES**:

- The organisational capability to attract and retain talent and skills in order to meet the business objectives. - Working in a matrix structure.
- Manage relationships with line management, employees and Unions, to ensure they take accountability for their people processes.
- To advocate and influence Business Unit People and Culture related objectives and practices.

**Minimum Requirements**

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- BCom Human Resources Management (Essential/Minimum or)
- B-Degree HR Management (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate Labour Relations Dev Prog (Recommended/Desirable)
- Certificate First Line Management (Recommended/Desirable)

**EXPERIENCE**:
3-5 years Relevant Human Resources operational or related experience (Essential/Minimum) Operational

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)

**Duties & Responsibilities**

**Change enablement**
- Lead change interventions that integrate strategy, technology, and people to drive value
- Create actionable deliverables for core components of the change management strategy including communications plan, training plan, and support plan
- Collaborate with line managers in driving stakeholder engagement, impact analysis, learning/training, communications, business readiness, deployment, and adoption measurement throughout technology/digitization/projects
- Partner with internal stakeholders to drive ongoing adoption of technology and business process improvement post-deployment

**Culture and People**
- Ensure compliance to Human Resources (HR) Strategies, Plans, Policies and Practices adhere and comply with corporate and Business Units HR governance, statutory, legal and other requirements for area of responsibility
- Promote awareness of People & Culture objectives, policies, and processes to all employees in the BU
- Evaluate, build, and maintain a wide variety of People and culture related initiatives such as team building activities, and diversity and inclusion etc.
- Drive a best employee experience in partnership with line managers and other internal stakeholders
- Act as first point of contact for line managers/employee people and culture queries
- Conducts appropriate check-ins to pulse check engagement and ensure Return on Investment (ROI)
- Provide implementation support of the people strategy and culture transformation

**Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management**
- Communicate and market HR service offering
- Establish and maintain business partner relationships with internal clients to facilitate optimal functioning for area of responsibility
- Manage internal relations to ensure that business needs are met
- Provide relevant and specialised support to applicable stakeholders
- Act as trusted advisor to line management
- Continuously improve HR Service Delivery to ensure customer satisfaction
- Conduct regular review sessions with line manager and HR Manager to assess performance against agreed target/Service Level Agreements (SLA’s)
- Maintain in depth knowledge of production working area/s to enable effective and efficient solutions to line management

**Employee Relations**
- Co-responsible for effective Employer Relations (ER) climate in area of responsibility/BU
- Ensure compliance to transformation plans, legislation, ER policies and procedures in area of responsibility/BU
- Act as advisor to employees and line management on disciplinary and grievance processes and other legislative requirements

**Internal Business Processes**
- Optimise existing systems and processes to enhance delivery on organisation requirements
- Partner with Line in managing Remuneration within Policy and Process guidelines, to attract, retain and motivate employees
- Identify business related people challenges in collaboration with line management and the brokering of appropriate solutions
- Ensure that HR assurance findings are actioned and implemented as per HR assurance reports
- Partner with Line manager in building the business unit workforce plans
- Assist in the design and verification of BU org structures
- Validate master data integrity for BU
- Ensure implementation of Human Resources Development (HRD) plans
- Oversee compilation of job profiles and compile