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