HR Lead Africa Middle East at Corteva Agriscience

Your Challenge

• Develops the strategic direction of the AME HR function, ensuring full alignment with global strategies.
• Acts as trusted advisor to the senior AME leadership team and contributes to shaping the business direction, strategies and goals, aligning the regional HR strategies to form a critical part of and to deliver success within such business strategies and goals.
• Oversees executive and leadership development, strategic workforce planning and staffing initiatives, talent management and retention.
• Designs and activates a distinct leadership brand to develop leadership behaviours that support our cultural transformation and leadership development acceleration.
• Leads succession planning topics, shaping and facilitating effective implementation of the organisational people agenda to ensure business success.
• Delivers new leader on-boarding and ongoing coaching.
• Supports strategic expansion into Africa and Middle East by securing top talent in the right place at the right time.
• Develops and implements the talent management and retention strategy and plans to acquire, develop and retain the capabilities we need for the success of the future Corteva®, including identification of talent development programmes for readiness of our high potentials.
• Manages graduate, learnerships and apprenticeships programmes with the aim to find and secure future talent.
• Drives organisational development to align strategy, design and structure, and the business culture with a focus on driving a high-performance culture across the region.
• Develops harmonized HR processes and formal procedures across Africa and Middle East, aligned to Global policies.
• Ensures governance and compliance to local labour law as well as global organisational policies and procedures, including a harmonised disciplinary procedure.
• Advises on and drives recognition and rewards programmes together with robust performance management programmes.
• Contributes to benchmarking of total compensation and remuneration against similar roles and grades within the industry, working collaboratively with the global rewards team.
• Implements and facilitates AME organisational change, organisational design projects and organisational change efforts; driving commercial effectiveness within the business.
• Manages implementation and optimization of regional HR operating systems.
• Manages employee and union relations.
• Manages and delivers all HR related financial and non-financial reporting.
• Defines metrics and reporting methods for measuring effectiveness of local HR programmes in driving organisational performance and containing costs.
• Manages and controls expenditures within operating budget.
• Coordinates activities and services with external vendors for contracted services and administers programme budgets and contracts.
• Participates in business compliance audits and ethics investigations to maintain the expected standards of the organisation.
• Oversees compliance to B-BBEE codes (South Africa), localisation and local content requirements (Rest of Africa and ME) and organisational gender diversity goal achievement - setting and implementation of EE targets.
• Ensures full compliance to changing employment laws.
• Maintains awareness and knowledge of contemporary HR management theory and methods, and provides suitable interpretation to managers, local HR team and employees within the organization.
• Enables the local HR Community to engage and equip the business to lead, support and effect sustainable change.

Qualifications
To Grow What Matters, You Will Need

• University degree or equivalent tertiary qualification in human resources, industrial relations, organizational development, business administration or psychology. Human Resources certification preferred. Master’s Degree preferred.
• 10+ years HR generalist and business partnership experience engaging with senior business leaders and coaching people leaders and employees in all aspects of HR required.
• Minimum of 5 years in a senior management position required.
• Previous experience of the South African market is essential and broader experience across the entire Africa and Middle Eastern markets is be preferred.
• Experience in large HR integration, optimization and implementation projects related to mergers and acquisitions preferred.
• Previous experience of working in a matrix environment with multiple stakeholders within HR as well as within the internal client groups is preferred.
• Strong business acumen coupled with proven efficient project management, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Highly motivated and a self-starter with the ability to drive local HR agenda, manage own workloads, whilst working collaboratively with others within and outside of the immediate region.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of employment laws and practices.
• Ability to lead, motivate, unlock potential and drive productivity within teams.
• High proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Excellent communication skills including presentation skills to large audiences.