People Manager
The South African Breweries SAB · Western Cape
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Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Partner with the local Leadership Team to lead, manage and support their teams to delivering on business priorities
- Ensure that the HR service delivered drives business results and supports the business strategy
- Build HR capability and credibility through robust development and coaching
- Embed the People Cycle in the location
- Embed the excellence programme in the area
- Manage the talent processes to support the current and future development and deployment needs of the area
- Support the recruitment process in the area, including ensuring effective on-boarding
- Consolidate and analyse talent data and work with line leaders to ensure that this data is used to inform talent planning
- Ensure that all relevant legislative diversity requirements are met and support is provided to line managers around the diversity agenda
- Support the annual target setting processes, ensuring an aligned collective effort focused on strategic priorities
- Work with the line leadership to assess learning needs in the region required to deliver the business strategy and work with L&D COEs to develop an L&D plan to address gaps
- Manage individual reward matters, with support from COEs and in line with policies
- Ensure IR policies and practices are understood and employed by all
- Manage the resolution of employee relations issues in the location
- Review feedback from Employee Engagement surveys as well as other people data [e.g. exit interviews, KPI scorecards to understand issues associated with engagement
- Develop and implement appropriate plans to focus on building engagement
Minimum Requirements
- 5 -8 years Human Resource Generalist experience, with at least 3 years in a management role
- A bachelor degree in HR, Industrial Psychology or equivalent business related degree
- Knowledge of local labour legislation and experience in labour relations is required
- Experience in FMCG is preferred
- Demonstrated experience in managing the HR processes related to the end to-end employee life cycle
- Track record of building excellent relationships and credibility with senior business leaders based on solid commercial understanding and an ability to identify customer needs and go beyond just delivering defined HR solutions
- A track record of building HR capability, shaping culture and leadership behaviours
- Proven experience in solving strategic business problems with pragmatic solutions