Human Resources Business Partner at Ogilvy South Africa

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Business Partnering

• Serve as a strategic business partner to senior leadership focused on a broad-based and transformational talent agenda designed to find, grow and keep the very best innovative talent in the business.
• Support the development and execution of a compelling Employee Value Proposition which will reflect the business culture and ensure we are positioned competitively in the recruiting space. Contribute to all efforts to ensure our total rewards are attractive.
• Facilitate a high-quality onboarding experience for all new starters.
• Facilitate the career management processes within your business units to ensure staff are supported to exceed expectations.
• Provide counsel on various employee relations issues and organisational development initiatives.
• Work in partnership with the executive team to develop a retention strategy which is relevant to the business challenges.
• Evolve and facilitate ongoing performance culture, ensuring a culture of honest, open, and regular feedback at all levels, with goals and development needs identified. Design and facilitate talent audit and relevant succession plans. Ensure decisions are being taken on people quickly to make room for good talent to grow.
• Facilitate the management of change.
• Leverage the use of digital tools / knowledge / informational sources to identify business trends and ensure appropriate solutions are in place to support the business.
• Evolve and introduce relevant flexible working tactics to attract and retain key talent.
• Ensure rotation and progression of talent across clients throughout the agency. Encourage and support a collaborative approach across all key stakeholders, supporting effective sharing of key information to ensure a successful, highly creative, and profitable business.
• Partner with the Head of L&D to ensure the execution of best-in-class development programmes that in line with the commercial requirements (technical, managerial and behaviour programmes).
• Provide people management coaching to managers and contribute to the development of managers' skills.

Talent Acquisition

• Manage full-cycle Talent acquisition process (advertising to placement) for a variety of roles, from entry-level to senior management, across different departments (creative, account management, strategy, intelligence and media.)
• Provide robust insights on key industry talent.
• Partner the business to understand what the future talent needs will be and proactively source talent to meet the changing needs of the business.
• Build deep recruitment pipelines across all departments of the business.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies to identify and attract top talent, utilising multiple sourcing channels including online job boards, social media, networking events, and industry contacts.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with hiring managers to understand their staffing needs and provide regular updates on recruitment progress.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date recruitment records.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices in recruitment.

Professional, technical skills and previous experience required.

• Extensive experience of HR/Talent Management in a high performing environment
• At least 5 years experience as a HR partner 
• Bachelors Degree, a post grad would be advantageous.
• Commercially and business minded.
• Confident, calm, with experience of successfully navigating a complex matrix with a number of key, senior stakeholders.
• Sound employment law and employee relations knowledge, in line with the experience level of the role.
• Experience of coaching.
• A track record of working with HR systems and technology and an affinity for innovative, brave approaches to people solutions.
• Can demonstrate implementation of a talent strategy and agenda to fit business needs.
• Both a strategic inspirer and a smooth operator - prepared to adjust approach dependent on situation and individuals involved.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Great listener, ability to actively listen.
• Consultative approach to business partnering.
• Builds strong relationships at all levels.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong client/customer service focus. Willing and able to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, and demonstrate flexibility.
• Whilst this is a strategic, partnering role, Ogilvy expects everyone to pitch in, roll their sleeves up and be part of the team. It will be hands on at times and humility and low ego would be incredibly useful.