HR Director South Africa

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Circana South Africa (Pty) Ltd Full time

**Let’s be unstoppable together**

**What will you be doing?**
We are looking for an experienced HR Director / Head of Talent to help support the business over a 7-month contract period for a maternity cover. The contract will run from 1 November 2024 - 30 May 2025.

As the interim HR Director, you will be responsible upholding the human resources strategy that supports our mission of impact, as well as our strategic and business goals. Your role will be overseeing the end-to-end human resource function in line with relevant, updated global best practices and local legalities. This role entails maintaining a unified organisational culture, organisational design in line with desired culture, talent acquisition, retention and engagement, and ensuring processes and practices are in place to promote a high-performing and motivated workforce.

**Responsibilities**:
**Strategic Leadership**
 In supporting the 2025 the Circana HR Strategy and provide strategic HR leadership within the business.
 Execute the people strategy through a savvy HR infrastructure and in partnership with local business and the Global HR
 Effective and comprehensive costing, budgeting, and expense management, taking all overlapping site activities into consideration
while reducing wastage, and contributing to overall profitability.
 Ensure that all existing HR projects continued and monitored in the achievement of the desired outcomes.

**Team Leadership**
 Stay abreast of own and team professional & personal learning & development.
 Ensure adequate HR team capacity management and cultivate the HR team's capability to ensure optimal business partnering across
Circana’s business units.

**Legal Compliance and Policy Leadership**
 Drive the company policies and best-practices that are relevant for the business and aligns with Circana’s employee value proposition
and ensure these remain current and effective through ongoing refinement.
 Drive transformation through optimizing Circana’s BBBEE contribution in terms of management control and skills development.
 Ensure all mandatory submissions are met during your contract time (EE, **WSP, **ATR, **BBBEE, **COIDA)
 Take accountability for company compliance with all relevant HR related legislation in the countries that Circana operate and guide the
business on any legislative changes.

**HRIS & System Efficiencies**
 Implement, and monitor fit for purpose and cost effective HRIS systems and ensuring sound information is extracted, trended, and
reported, to address business challenges and drive culture & people transformation.
 Support in the global payroll system assessment and deployment whilst ensuring SA legal reporting and tax adherence is not impacted

**Organisational Design**

 Organisational structuring & overseeing the defining of roles and responsibilities, ensuring the team remain optimal so to alleviate
bottlenecks within the company’s operations.
 Conduct job evaluations, grading & ongoing market benchmarking related to pay and benefits to ensure Circana remains competitive
within the market and in partnership with the Comp & Ben COE.
 Continue to attract and retain suitable talent aligned to culture and job fit. This is done through ensuring an optimal company culture,
rewards and benefits are competitive, effective leadership is in place across the business units, access to meaningful work, access to
learning & development, career path visibility and fair access internal mobility
 Ensure the performance management philosophy and methodology is well designed, defined and executed so to drive a seamless
performance management planning and review process, with smart transformational KPI’s driving high performance across the
business.

**Employee Experience**
 Drive a high-performance culture and high-performance results through the performance management philosophy & methodology.
 Oversee the Company wellness programme & events that enables healthy lifestyles that supports our high performance.
 Drive a positive impact and sentiment across leader/ employee engagement channels to ensure the Circana culture remains in-tact
among all internal stakeholders.
 Work with the local leadership team to deliver a sound internal communications plan that keeps employees involved, engaged and up to
date.
 Customized people centric solutions that instill an optimal people centric culture aligned to the Circana way.

**Industrial Relations**
 Ensure sound employee relations are upheld that fosters ubuntu and drives on time and in full delivery.
 Have a sound industrial relations infrastructure and represent the company externally related to employment related litigation.
 Support local teams through any PIP, Incapacity or Disciplinary processes in adherence with the Disciplinary code

**Consultative Partnership**
 Continuously present key opportunities and synergies that will improve and/ or expand the business w



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