HR Business Partner-Brits at Bridgestone South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Job Purpose

• You will be reporting directly to the People & Business Partner Lead. This is a Local role, based in Brits at the Factory. You will serve as an internal business partner, delivering comprehensive HR programs, initiatives and solutions to the functional areas of the organization in support of key business strategies. He / She will be a key member of the People team and is responsible for providing strategic and tactical human resources support for their assigned field operations

Locations.

Responsibilities:

Organisational Effectiveness and Change Management

• Directing and influencing the organizational architecture for building organizational effectiveness within area of responsibility to maximize core capabilities in terms of structures, capability and performance.
• Ensuring that every job is essential and value-adding, is filled with a fully performing individual now and in the future and that people management processes and practices are streamlined to enhance business efficiencies.
• Change agent.
• Provide a consultancy service in the area of HR policies and procedures.
• Support personal and organizational change. Ensures the successful delivery of multiple HR projects.

Talent Management

• Directing and providing the architecture for developing sustainable talent relevant to the business units by ensuring that every employee is appropriately developed to support meaningful succession and capability planning to improve business performance.

Strategic Human Resource Planning

• Translating HR strategy and developing practices and processes appropriate for the area of responsibility that enables effective people planning, so that current and future resourcing requirements are met, in terms of time, demographics and skills requirements.

Remuneration Reward and Benefits

• Influencing area of responsibility resourcing needs and capability to ensure people resources are in place to deliver business results.

Employee Relations and Stakeholder Engagement

• Providing professional advice on relevant policies, practices, systems and tools and to ensure sound employee and stakeholder relations.

Leadership and Line Capability Building

• To ensure that there is a sufficient feeder pool to the leadership pipeline and that leadership issues are effectively addressed within the business unit and that capability requirements are supported by strategic initiatives designed to address gaps identified.
• To coach and enable line to effectively execute good people management practices and processes.

Qualifications & Experience Required

Education, Master, other certification:

• HR Degree / 3 year Diploma
• Post graduate studies in related fields (added advantage)

Experience (years):

• 8 years’ work experience as HR Business Partner
• Generalist or Specialist in various areas of the HR Value Chain

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrable track record in leading and managing change processes within area of responsibility
• Deep understanding of HR and business
• Thorough knowledge of labour legislation and in-depth knowledge of legal requirement related to day-to-day management of employees
• Ability to communicate effectively, both through oral and written communication
• Advanced proficiency in Word, PowerPoint and Excel Reporting
• A keen eye for detail
• Ability to demonstrate good work ethics and high level of integrity
• Solid Project Management, presentation, report writing, stakeholder engagement, coordination and administrative skills
• Ability to work independently
• High sense of urgency
• Ability to implement diagnostic tools
• Must be a team player
• Strong business acumen
• Leadership Competencies:
• Business Acumen
• Shapes business strategy
• Drives accountability and high performance
• Fosters teamwork and collaboration
• Customer focus and Customer Service orientation/mindset
• Nurtures and coaches
• Builds partnerships
• Develops others
• Health and Safety
• Hazard Awareness
• SHE Law and Regulatory Systems
• Emergency Response