Senior Manager People

Overview / Responsibilities:
Wood is currently recruiting for a Senior Manager People & Organisation for our Mining & Minerals office in Bryanston.

Job Objective:
The People & Organisation (P&O) Manager is accountable for leading the delivery of the people agenda in their area of operational responsibility. The role is responsible for implementing the P&O strategy for their area of responsibility in support of business objectives.

The role acts as a business partner, providing advice and counsel in effective people management practices, ensuring that operations and processes within their area of responsibility are aligned to the overall business strategy, in line with relevant regulations, laws and best practice.

The role is responsible for developing a high-performing P&O team with strong business partnering skills to provide innovative solutions to support leaders across the entire employee life-cycle. The role supports people priorities; delivers employee engagement, talent priorities, workforce planning and resourcing; builds organisational effectiveness; leads change management; and mitigates risk through effective employee and industrial relations. This role is accountable for all aspects of people in their area of responsibility, supported by Shared Services and Centres of Expertise. This role is responsible for developing effective leadership, and appropriate development of people and skills within their area of responsibility.

Key Responsibilities:

- Deliver the P&O strategy in their area of responsibility with the aim of bringing P&O closer to the business as trusted advisors, in support of short and long term goals, including future growth
- Deliver P&O global, regional and country projects
- Ensure P&O decisions are aligned with both business and functional
- Management and administration of direct and indirect reports working locally and remotely, maintaining open and effective lines of communications
- Provide consultative, problem-solving support for challenging business issues and ensure expert functional support is provided to the business in a timely and cost effective manner
- May lead the delivery of P&O related acquisition and integration activities in area of responsibility
- Ensure all relevant metrics and reporting KPIs are actively monitored and reported
- Maintain expert knowledge of functional speciality by staying abreast of best practices, legal developments, emerging trends, technological advancements and benchmark comparisons
- Develops effective leadership in their business area, aligned to Wood culture, values and
- Drives robust people development and performance management throughout the business area, to build and retain skills needed to deliver the operational business in the short to medium
- Deliver employee communication and support employee engagement
- Support and participate in emergency response activities ensuring effective P&O
Support the creation of an organisational culture which fosters innovation and collaboration, continuous improvement and
- Assure quality on the delivery of people solutions, proactively seeking and addressing customer
- Lead by personal example and encourage all employees to conduct their activities in accordance with all applicable laws and the group’s standards and policies.

Skills / Qualifications:
Qualifications:

- Degree level qualification in HR or business management preferred

Job specific experience:

- Experience in business-focused HR roles within a dynamic organisation
- Experience of managing change, putting high emphasis on co-operation and business partnership across the company
- Good knowledge of people practices and applicable legislative frameworks
- Previous experience of dealing with industrial and employee relations issues

Knowledge of:

- Business service offering and customer base
- Business performance and how it can deliver and add value to its customers
- Awareness of external factors, competitors and their impact on business strategy and success
- Key roles performed in groups/departments served
- Changing regulatory environment
- Current and future industry trends
- Experience of working with tenders and proposals to enable forward planning and enhance delivery
- Presenting solutions to customers and working in partnership to deliver

Experience of:

- Ensuring safety delivery and continuous improvement
- Established and achieved challenging performance targets
- Demonstrated a commitment to continuous learning and development
- Demonstrated technical excellence
- Demonstrated implementation of long term solutions in support of the business

Personal Attributes:

- Relates well with others; considers and responds appropriately to the needs, feelings, and capabilities of different people in different situations, is tactful, compassionate and sensitive, and treats others with Understands how others perceive them and has the ability to flex their own style to the situation for greater effectiveness
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