HR Site Lead Cape Town at Haleon

Key Responsibilities:

This role will provide YOU with the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following…

Talent & Capability

• Develop and drive a proactive talent strategy across the organisation, partnering with business leaders to identify, develop, and retain key talent and drive diversity.
• Lead regular talent and succession planning sessions on the site, using potential and readiness mapping (Assess). Identify successors for key roles, assess bench strength, and define targeted development actions with leaders to enhance capability needs.
• Partner with TA Teams to ensure quality of hires and enhance employer branding by providing insights into employee experience and company culture. Support early career recruitment by participating in site events and developing outreach strategies suited to your market.
• Drive capability development by aligning talent strategies with business goals, identifying skill gaps, and implementing targeted training and development programs, utilising functional and global learning programs where necessary.
• Own leadership development for site leadership teams and potential successors – ensuring right coaching, mentoring and support is in place to develop impactful, inclusive, and inspiring leaders.

Performance Management

• Partner with leaders to drive a high-performance culture through effective goal setting, feedback, development, and performance review practices. Support upskilling and leadership development.
• Support performance management and change initiatives to foster a culture of continuous learning, ensuring the workforce is equipped to meet organizational objectives.

Organisation Effectiveness

• Lead or support business transformation efforts, drive organisational redesign to become future-fit, and embed change management practices to improve agility and effectiveness.
• Serve as a coach and thought partner to business leaders, helping them enhance leadership impact, develop their teams, and build organizational health.
• Leverage data and AI to provide insight into workforce trends across all core HR metrics, inform opportunities to drive performance and impact further, and measure the effectiveness of people initiatives.

Culture & Engagement

• Act as a culture steward by leading engagement initiatives, interpreting feedback (e.g., surveys), enabling action planning, and championing values and behaviours.
• Drive cultural transformation with the leadership team, ensuring that all levels of the organisation are clear on behaviours and expectations to support the overall business growth.
• Manage employee relations cases, ensure compliance with local labor laws and HR policies, advise managers on people risks, and uphold a fair and consistent approach to issue resolution.
• Partner with the business to create inclusive environments, drive equitable talent practices, and improve representation and belonging across the employee lifecycle.

One HR

• Build strong relationships with COEs (eg Talent, Reward, Learning, Org Effectiveness), to collaborate for impact and drive initiatives required for the business needs.
• Partner with People Services to ensure seamless employee lifecycle management, including hiring, onboarding, movers, organisational changes, and exits.
• Encourage self-service where possible, partnering with People Services to ensure employees are able to access information they require seamlessly.
• Maintain data accuracy and compliance, and use Workday for reporting and insight generation.

HR Operations & Compliance:

• Ensure compliance with labour legislation, company policies, and plant safety standards.
• Maintain accurate HR data for supply chain employees, including time and attendance, leave, and records management.
• Generate and analyse HR metrics and reports to identify trends and recommend actions.
• Coordinate with Health & Safety and Industrial Relations teams as required.

Industrial Relations:

• Foster a constructive employee relations climate by designing and implementing proactive engagement strategies that promote trust, transparency, and compliance with labour legislation.
• Lead the resolution of complex employee relations matters, including disciplinary processes, labour court & CCMA cases, organisational restructures, and change management initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and legal frameworks.
• Promote fair and constructive industrial relations within the plant environment.
• Provide guidance and coaching on employee relations, performance management, disciplinary procedures, and conflict resolution.

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• University degree in Business or Human Resources.
• 10 years of experience in Human Resources, 3-4 years as a Site Lead with accountability for various client groups.  
• Extensive experience in HR in a variety of HR functions (generalist – recruitment, talent & succession planning, learning & development, compensation & benefits, employee & labor relations, cultural transformation), plus management of staff is an asset.  
• Ability to learn quickly, create innovative solutions, work effectively in teams and develop & inspire others.
• Ability to design people strategy & priorities, aligned to the site and functional needs.    
• Project & change management (eg. organisational design & effectiveness), ability to operate in complex environment with minimal supervision and competing demands.
• Strong interpersonal skills, relationship management and influencing skills to advise and coach leaders at all levels in the organization, to ultimately drive performance & effectiveness.
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking.
• Strong communication, storytelling and listening skills for effective engagement and influence

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• MBA or Master’s degree an asset, but not required
• Experience in a food, pharmaceutical, or consumer health manufacturing environment a major asset

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 Job Posting End Date

2026-01-01