Head: Leadership

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Sanlam Full time

**What will you do?**
- A position of **Head: Leadership & People Development** exists in **Santam**. This role may be based at **Head Office Tygervalley or Alice Lane Sandton** and reports directly to the Executive Head: Human Resources.Provide strategic direction and thought leadership on best-in-class people development practices that define learning culture and architecture across the Santam Group, in the context of the diverse needs of multiple stakeholders.- To build human capital across the Santam Group through the digitisation of learning and skills transformation for critical, technical skills acquisition and embed future-fit and ethical leadership competence.- To support the achievement of the business strategy by reviewing Santam and Business Unit plans for delivery of alignment of people development processes, systems and solutions.**What will make you successful in this role?**
- To provide thought leadership and drive policy implementation around all aspects of People Development in the Group.
- Lead and drive the digitisation of learning aligned to Santam People Strategy.
- Embed ethical behaviours and future fit leadership competencies to promote an ethical and inclusive culture.
- Conduct a skills capability mapping process per prioritised BU and identify the reskilling, upskilling, and / or enablement requirements for employees.
- Redesign our executive leadership programme and build industry thought leadership.
- Design an integration and assimilation programme for new leaders.
- Design and implement a technical skills academy to enable upskilling and reskilling of employees for sustainable business performance.
- Facilitate the development of FSC skills development targets and ensure that delivery of the L&D strategy contributes to achievement of the targets. Monitor and support the ongoing achievement of the FSC scorecard and transformation initiatives.
- Business engagement in reviewing the Santam Group and BU-specific strategy to identify needs and align strategic priorities for learning and development.
- Managing multiple stakeholders to execute HR strategy within a federated business model.
- Identification of future skills needs for Santam and industry, and ensuring relevant solution design and digital learning delivery.
- Positions the learning and development function in the Santam Group as a world-class learning organisation that applies industry leading practice.
- At a strategic level, direct and co-ordinate L&D activities across the organisation in partnership with relevant department heads to ensure that L&D strategic objectives and outputs are being met in a cost effective and sustainable manner.
- Forges relationships with the business and key learning partners, including, but not limited to: government institutions (e.g. SETAs), learning solutions providers (e.g. business schools) and industry professional associations.

**Qualification and Experience**
- Relevant Post Graduate Degree in Human Resources/Org Psychology
- 10 - 15 years in the following areas:

- Demonstrated success in developing, building and delivering on a corporate L&D strategy.
- Integrating, aligning and executing strategy.
- Developing a stakeholder management grid for the business.
- Developing resource plans to execute functional strategies.
- Developing a client service delivery plan. Conducting benchmarking exercises to investigate improvement opportunities.
- Executing major organisational change.
- Developing and implementing learning and development and leadership development frameworks.

**Skills**
- Strategy planning and execution
- Business Acumen
- Learning and development methodologies
- Leadership development
- Facilitation techniques
- Excellent communication skills
- Influencer/change agent: Paint a clear picture for changes in strategies and/or organisational models.

**Core Competencies**
- Cultivates innovation - Contributing strategically- Customer focus - Contributing strategically- Drives results - Contributing strategically- Collaborates - Contributing strategically- Being resilient - Contributing strategically**About The Company**
- Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly entering into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.- Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We’re about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.- At Santam, we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving

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