Human Capital Strategic Enablement Senior Specialist at Discovery Limited

Job Purpose

• The job holder will be responsible for:
• providing critical input into the development & implementation of key human capital (HC) strategies for Greater Marketing (Marketing & Sales). This includes owning people projects, from inception through to execution.
• owning & leading the talent acquisition & onboarding function with a team of talent acquisition specialists’.
• co-ordinating & supporting HR support functions across Greater Marketing.

Key Outputs May Include But Are Not Limited To

• Contribution to & implementation of key initiatives & Human Capital strategies.
• Extensive research to drive for best practice adoption and innovation;
• Implementation: projects, initiatives & organisational changes;
• Ownership of the talent acquisition & onboarding function across Greater Marketing;
• Functional co-ordination & support for HR teams across Greater Marketing

Research & Strategy Development

• To stay abreast of international best practice and trends as well as ensure necessary changes are implemented on an ongoing basis.

Strategy & Project Implementation

• Ensure successful execution of HC strategies for the business
• Implementation of & / or accountability for all Greater Marketing people projects and initiatives. This includes developing proposals & business cases for new initiatives, developing requirement specifications, signing off business specifications & user testing.
• To contribute technically to all HR Projects.
• Ensure completion of the benefit realisation for all implemented projects.
• To perform post implementation analysis & action findings.

Talent Acquisition & Onboarding

• Owning & leading the talent acquisition & onboarding function across Greater Marketing.
• Researching as well as driving best practice & innovation.
• Enabling proactive servicing by building talent pools for strategic/critical roles.
• Co-ordinating resources to enable an effective service to stakeholders.
• Ensuring that processes are in place & adhered to.
• Reporting on key metrics to measure the success of talent acquisition activities.
• Trouble shooting & problem solving.

Functional Co-ordination & Support

The incumbent will be responsible for the support & co-ordination of the Greater Marketing Human Capital function, ensuring that HR teams are able to deliver the required service to their clients.

• Support all the HR roles to ensure successful execution of their HR responsibilities.
• Continuous improvements of the Human Capital function – processes, systems and tools.
• Documentation & maintenance of all HR processes.
• To monitor performance within the HR functions and to ensure that trends are identified, & corrective action is taken where necessary.
• To check work methodologies and outcomes and ensure that they are consistent and effective operationally.
• To ensure creation and communication of reports & dashboards for the People function.
• To ensure consistent application of required standards for HC processes, including creation of new Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) & the maintenance of these SOPs.
• Support pipeline development for all HC Roles.

Stakeholders

• Present and engage with Marketing Exco, S&D People Exco, as well as DCDS Exco

Person Details

Required

Work Experience

• Minimum 7 years functional and/or management experience with demonstrated experience in:
• End to end HR expertise
• Strategy development and implementation
• Change management
• Project management
• Business Process Redesign

Preferred (would Be Advantageous)

• Experience in the Discovery people function
• Organisational Design (OD) experience
• General HR experience
• Consulting experience

Required

Education / Qualifications / Accreditations with Professional Body

• Completed tertiary qualification (NQF level 7 equivalent)

Preferred (would Be Advantageous)

• Completed Honours/ Masters degree (advantageous)