Talent Specialist

**Duties and responsibilities**:

- Encourage talent promotion and mobility within and across the business
- Work with and influence HR Business Partners and Executives to identify, develop and retain key talent
- Develop a positive relationship with employees by giving focus to career development through individual development, career pathing, and progression.
- Act as a liaison between HR and Line Managers to connect the best internal talent to existing
opportunities.
- Drive the talent management and succession planning processes and documentation for DL
grade and below.
- Collate and coordinate information for annual Talent and Organisational Reviews Manage
the 360 Degree activity for the group annually
- Coordinate activities that bring focus to talent and development.
- Conduct training on any changes or updates to the performance management system to
relevant stakeholders
- Advise the business on performance management principles, techniques, and best practice.
- Keep abreast with industry changes and evolutions to ensure internal processes are relevant
to business needs.
- Project manage and coordinate key business projects not limited to Top Employer,
Management Trainee Recruitment, system implementation, and enhancement
- Design and implementation of the appropriate change management principles and
methodologies to ensure the change lands effectively in the business.
- Ad hoc projects are relevant to business priorities.
- Collaborate with all relevant HR COE teams to ensure execution of strategy is done in a
manner that enhances the brand and connection of the HR function.
- Find opportunities for partnership with HR COE.
- Keep abreast of legislative changes relevant to employment equity and provide an
operational interpretation for the business.
- Coordinate organization transformation programmes through appropriate committees and
channels.
- Play the liaison between the national committee and site-based committees.
- Ensure reporting is accurate and available.
- Maintaining talent and organizational information ensuring relevance and accuracy
- Analysis of key data to provide insights into business practice, behavior, and causation.
- Promote data-driven decision-making within the business by providing meaningful and
relevant data to HR that drives the desired strategy.

**Qualifications and experience**:

- BCOM or BSoc Sci degree in Human Resource Management / Industrial Psychology
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in Talent Management Experience as an HR Generalist would be advantageous
- Proven track record in change management, talent management principle development, and
organizational development and design
- Will be operating as a Talent Management Lead
- Responsible for driving all Talent Management projects/ programmes within/ across the business in order to promote, develop, manage and expand the organizations talent pool
- Drive internal talent promotion and mobility within and across the business
- Engage with and influence HR Business Partners, Executives, and external stakeholders to identify, develop and retain key talent
- Similar industry experience will be advantageous