Since our establishment in 1918, Sanlam has been a prominent part of the South African business landscape. We have always held a long-term view of how business adapts to the demands of the environment in which it operates. Today, in a dynamic world, we see an evolving set of social, economic, political and environmental imperatives that require our skilfu...
What will make you successful in this role?
Supports leadership team on people issues
- Aligns business requirements and effective HC practices to deliver people solutions.
- Influences leadership around people agenda and issues
- Analyse HC data and interpret ito trends and suggestions for decision making
Owns talent management for the business area
- Builds leadership competence through coaching and guides line management around people processes
- Implements talent management framework (including succession management)
- Identifies the immediate and long-term talent issues that impact the area and put appropriate plans in place to address
- Ensures the retention of high performing and high potential employees through the proper management of learning and development opportunities, mentoring, coaching and reward
Manages Talent Acquisition
- Supports the business with the recruitment and placement of talent.
- Identify critical and scarce skills for business unit and agree strategies with all relevant COE’s (e.g. Talent acquisition, L&D & Total Rewards) to ensure appropriate pipelines over short and longer term
Helps to shape the culture
- Ensures that values and leadership standards are communicated and understood at all levels in business area
- Helps the business area to establish and maintain high levels of employee engagement through people solutions
Delivers Key HR initiatives as the key interface
- Identifies projects and HR initiatives in line with business area needs
- Partner with key stakeholders within business area to ensure that all HC projects are appropriately communicated
- Co-ordinates project integration initiatives into annual plan
Improves the overall people effectiveness of the business area
- Provides high level people management advice, guidance, support
- Advises and educate on HC policies and procedures
- Implements all people processes and practices and ensure that they are legally compliant and fairly applied
- Acts as first line of contact for any employee relations issues ensuring all risks are managed within the framework of best practice and all relevant legislation
- Supports, develops and coaches line managers to manage employee relations issues
Facilitates reward processes
- Supports the annual salary review process
- Works with the line managers to distribute salary budget aligned with talent strategy and fair remuneration practices
Manages learning and development implementation
- Helps implement, develop and facilitate a learning environment
- Identifies learning and development needs and contracts with CoE to design and deliver
- Support and manages the delivery of learning and development solutions and programs from the CoE
Driving the transformation agenda
- Support business in developing their EE plan (including numerical targets and AA actions)
- Facilitate the alignment of business strategy and EE plan
- Ensure execution of all initiatives in line with the BU EE Plan
- Provide mentoring and coaching support to the current HC team to enable learning and growth.
Qualification and Experience
- Degree or Diploma with 8 to 10 years related experience or qualified by extensive experience.
Knowledge and Skills
- Strategic Planning
- Drives transformation and change organisational design and development
- Risk and Governance Management
- Leading others and resource management
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