Executive: People and Culture - Cape Town at Unitrans

Job Advert Summary    

• The Executive: People and Culture position is responsible for developing and executing human capital strategy of the business in support of the strategic direction of the company through culture, performance and talent management. The incumbant can be based in Cape Town or Johannesburg. They do not have to reside in Cape Town. 

Minimum Requirements    

• A minimum of a Bachelor degree in Social Sciences/ Human Resources (or equivalent).
• Post Graduate qualifications (Labour Law, Business or Management) an advantage.
• Minimum of 10 years of direct relevant work experience
• Minimum of 5 years management experience at executive management level or in a leadership role

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Build a performance culture in the business by partnering with executives, specialists and business partners to create, implement and communicate strategies to deliver on shareholder value.
• Drive the people agenda in all territories, ensuring consistency of policy, people management frameworks and practices.
• Drive the company’s culture and core values to become the lived experience of employee throughout the business.
• Build and implement a strong employee value proposition – translated into the lived employee experience and integrated into all people practices in the organization.
• Provide recommendations and implement solutions to motivate, develop and retain talent in the organization.
• Coaching and significantly influencing senior leadership, fostering strategic business partnering as well as managing and directing the team's execution capabilities.
• Effectively utilize people data to provide the business the capability to drive performance, build and retain skills as well as develop employees to meet the future skills requirements of the company.
• Plan and implement people solutions aligned to both business and the KAP Human Capital strategy.
• Build succession and skills pipeline for Unitrans to ensure the future sustainability of the business. Provide direction, process and development solutions to ensure a resilient talent management plan for the business.
• Build and maintain an effective, service oriented Human Capital team to facilitate the availability of people to execute business strategy at all levels.
• Ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements and standards.
• Ensure that there is excellent alignment with established human capital policies & procedures in the execution of business and Human Capita initiatives.
• Transform this organization to be representative of society