General Manager Human Resources: Agriculture

ROLE IMPACT

• The General Manager: Human Resources leads the global people strategy, aligning workforce capabilities with business goals and growth objectives. The role partners with executives to drive talent management, leadership development, employee engagement, culture transformation, and workforce planning while ensuring compliance, governance, and organisational effectiveness to support sustainable business performance and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic HR Leadership

• Partner with the Executive Team to align people strategies with business objectives and growth plans.
• Develop and execute the Agriculture People Strategy.
• Provide workforce insights and recommendations that support organisational performance and future capability requirements.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation and high performance.

Talent & Leadership Management

• Lead workforce planning, talent acquisition and succession planning initiatives.
• Build sustainable talent pipelines for critical and scarce skills.
• Drive leadership development and organisational capability programmes.
• Promote continuous learning and career development across the business.

Organisational Effectiveness & Change

• Lead organisational design, transformation and change management initiatives.
• Drive workforce optimisation and organisational effectiveness.
• Support business agility through effective people and change strategies.

Employee Relations & Culture

• Lead labour relations strategy and maintain constructive stakeholder and union engagement.
• Oversee employee relations matters, including dispute resolution and risk mitigation.
• Drive employee engagement, wellbeing, culture and employee experience initiatives.
• Promote an inclusive, values-driven workplace culture.

Transformation, Governance & Compliance

• Lead Employment Equity, Diversity and Inclusion initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with employment legislation, governance standards and HR policies.
• Identify and mitigate people-related risks while maintaining HR governance and controls.

Financial & HR Team Leadership

• Manage the HR budget and evaluate the impact of strategic people initiatives.
• Lead, coach and develop the HR team to ensure delivery of business objectives.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, Industrial Psychology, Business Management or related field.
• Postgraduate Qualification NQF Level 8.

Preferred

• Master's degree in human resources, Industrial Psychology, Business Administration MBA or related discipline.
• Registration with SABPP or equivalent professional body.

Experience

Essential

• 12–15 years progressive Human Resources experience.
• Extensive HR Generalist experience.
• Minimum 8 years in senior HR leadership positions.
• Executive stakeholder management experience.
• Proven organisational transformation experience.
• Significant labour relations and union engagement experience.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary HR teams.
• Experience developing and implementing People Strategies.

Preferred

• Agriculture, Mining, Manufacturing, Chemicals, Industrial Services or FMCG experience.
• Experience within a regional or multinational environment.
• Exposure to Board, Exco and governance structures.

Key Competencies

• Strategic Leadership Competencies
• Human Capital Leadership Competencies
• Change, Culture & Transformation Leadership
• Stakeholder & Relationship Management
• Personal Effectiveness