Talent Management Consultant

**Introduction**

Momentum, a financial services provider since 1966, known for its entrepreneurial spirit and innovative culture is committed to wealth creation and preservation, insurance, and income protection for all our clients. We do this through our understanding of the retail insurance, savings, and investment markets in SA.

**Role Purpose**

**The Talent management specialist role **coordinates and supports initiatives that are aimed at attracting, developing and retaining MDS employees. The role works closely with the HCBPs to ensure that all learning and development, career management, performance management processes and other related projects are carried out and completed on time, to ensure an engaged and high-performance driven culture.

**Requirements**:
**Qualifications**
- Honours degree Industrial Psychology/ Masters Industrial Psychology
- Registered Psychometrist/ Industrial Psychologist
- Accreditation to use various assessment tool

**Experience**
- 2-3 years experience in a similar role.

**Duties & Responsibilities**
- **Learning and development**
- Works closely with the learning business partner to ensure to rollout and tracking of all learning related initiatives within MDS, supports defining the learning strategy and all training plans
- liaise with employees to ensure completion of all regulatory training, tracks and reports of completion.
- Maintain and update e learning content and processes, as required
- Collect and collate and report on training that happened within MIS on a monthly basis
- Maintain bursary processes within MDS. Ensures employee bursary records up to date.
- Maintain and report on specialized programmes (e.g. CFP, CFA) within MDS
- Compile and submit ATR & WSP to Group Skills on an annual basis.
- **P**sychometric Assessments and **reporting**
- Keep abreast and report monthly on assessment costs within MDS.
- Ensures accurate reports are compiled to inform recruitment and development decisions.
- Provides assessment feedback to newly appointed employees as part of the employee onboarding process.
- Works closely with the Head of Human Capital to ensure that assessment batteries are up to date and are used consistently.
- **Talent management, succession planning and performance management**
- Provides ongoing support for talent management and succession planning initiatives within MDS.
- Provides ongoing support for the employee performance related initiatives within MDS.
- Provides ongoing support to the implementation of career management and career paths initiatives within MDS.
- Liaises with MMH group to ensure all Talent management initiatives are implemented In line with group strategy.
- Talent management, succession planning and performance management
- Supports the recruitment, onboarding, development of MDS graduates or any other special recruitment programmes.
- Coordinates and supports the compiling and updating of all role profiles within MDS.
- **Process and projects support**
- Track and drive the implementation and delivery of the project plan and process change in line with the scope, cost and time parameters of the project and experience required.
- Update and maintain relevant project tracking documents and follow up on outstanding projects.
- Track and drive the implementation and delivery of the project plan and process change in line with the scope, cost and time parameters of the project and experience required.
- Update and maintain relevant project tracking documents and follow up on outstanding projects.

**Competencies**
- Attention to the details.
- Planning and organising
- **Drives for results. **Drives a sense of urgency, focus, accountability, agility, and execution to deliver business results.
- Prioritises the business interests of MMH and invests in the success of the Group by aligning effort across divisions.
- **Impact and influence.** Persuades, convinces, influences, and inspires others, both within MMH and externally to win support, loyalty, and gain commitment to the purpose of MMH.
- **Self-awareness and insight.** Effectively manages self and relationships with others and provides perspective in difficult situations.
- **Diversity and inclusion**. Is sensitive to individual and cultural similarities and differences, demonstrates humility and openness to engage people from diverse backgrounds and cultures for mutual benefit of all.
- Coping with pressure and setbacks

Delivering results and meeting customer expectation