HR Business Partner

Job purpose

To provide end-to-end HR service to the assigned internal client. Act as a first point of contact to internal clients and interface with supporting HR Centers of excellence to meet client requirements.

The HR Business Partner will have no direct budget responsibility but will manage the allocation of the HR Budget in relation to their area of influence.

The HR Business Partner will report into the HR Director and will have the HR Administrator reporting directly into them.

Duties and responsibilities
- Act as a point of contact for employees and managers in the respective sectors in respect of Recruitment, Employee Relations, Compensation & Benefits, Talent Management
- Lead and manage the people management related agenda with sector management
- Enable and assist in the attraction, development and retention of key talent to maintain our competitive advantage
- Proactively support delivery of HR processes and systems
- Build strong business relationship with sector management
- Actively identify gaps, propose and implement changes as necessary to mitigate risks
- Partner with sector management to effectively drive and manage performance
- Drive succession planning and talent development and review processes in partnership with the learning and development center of excellence
- Drive transformation with the relevant recruiting managers
- Active member of the HR leadership team and Sector leadership team
- Develop an environment that enables and empowers employees to achieve performance excellence
- Measure and analyze HR key performance indicators to drive functional and business performance improvements

Qualifications & Experience
- Human Resources/Industrial Psychology Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Honors Degree preferred
- 6 years HR business partner/generalist experience of which three must have been at Middle to Senior management
- Compensation & Benefits experience
- Employee relations experience
- Organization design experience - talent management including change management
- Internal recruitment experience
- Experience in facilitating and delivering training
- HR systems experience

Competencies and Skills
- Project and Change management
- Natural bias for service excellence
- Above average interpersonal skills
- Excellent organization skills and ability to multitask
- Analytical skills and attention to detail
- High level skills in using Microsoft Office Packages
- Commitment to task and results orientation
- Facilitation skills
- Sound knowledge of the business environment, the relevant role players within the business and their key responsibilities and outcomes.
- Knowledge and understanding of the relevant legislation as it pertains to HR and the impact on business e.g. Labour Legislation, Occupational H&S, BBBEE, Skills Development etc.
- Knowledge and understanding of the company policies and procedures applicable to the specific work environment to ensure that work outcomes are compliant to the policies and procedures.
- Advanced business communication skills enabling verbal, written communication and presentation skills at all levels.
- The ability to interact with people at all levels in the organisation.
- The ability to guide, collaborate, direct and influence people in such a way that outputs are performed at an excellent level.
- The ability to accurately give an account of information pertaining to the performance of outputs.
- The ability to analyse exposure to risk and determine how best to handle that exposure

Role Location

The position will be based at The Head Office, Sandton Drive, Sandton.