Lead- Talent Management - Absa Towers West at Absa South Africa

Job Description

Accountability: Thought Leadership and Talent Experience

• Lead in implementation of Absa’s talent policies, standards, strategy, framework and governance.
• Embed differentiated, digitally-led, robust and consistent group-wide talent processes, systems and tools that utilise or develop best-in-class approaches and embed Absa’s desired talent culture.
• Implement a highly engaging world-class RB talent experience that positions RB as the employer of choice in all its markets; and achieves the objective of inspiring, engaging, developing and retaining the best talent for Absa.  Achieve the desired talent experience across the entire talent experience value chain. 
• Implement a robust Talent Data Analytics and Insights framework including MI reporting, insights generation and research to facilitate data-driven talent planning and decision making across the Cluster.
• Provide Talent Subject Matter Expertise and advisory to key stakeholders including leadership teams, and People and Culture function leaders and specialists.

Accountability: Organisational Talent Review

• Lead the development and execution of a high quality RB Cluster Talent Review that achieves business objectives and creates a robust internal bench of dynamic top talent.
• Drive the development and maintenance of robust succession talent pipelines for all populations prioritised by the RB Executive Committee including young talent, women, succession and business critical skill populations.   

Accountability: Promotions

• Support business to implement the Absa Promotions Standard so that promotions are in line with the Standard; Organisational Design Principles; and Diversity and Inclusion commitments.
• Communicate in a celebratory manner on a quarterly basis all the Promotions.

Accountability: Capability Building

• Lead the development of high quality talent management mindsets and capabilities in RB leaders and people managers to achieve an inspiring and empowering management culture at Absa.
• Develop a robust segmented development intervention framework that is fit for purpose that brings talent management to life for all talent and drive cadence of implementation, by all parties with tracking and testing of efficacy in addressing development gaps.
• Implement actions and interventions that will enable leaders to operate at the right Level of Accountability.
• Embed future-fit competency frameworks and learning maps to guide the development of Talent in RB.
• Maintain thriving Talent Community of Practice that establish world class talent capabilities across the RB PCF team, and a culture of best practice sharing and collaboration amongst them. 
• Build leadership team and line manager capability in owning and executing the talent management agenda as a personal and business priority.

Accountability: Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain trusted advisor relationships with key stakeholders including RB Executive Committee members, Group Talent CoEs, BU Executive leadership teams, People Leads and RB CoEs.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with key external stakeholders including talent service providers, industry bodies and sector forums.  

Accountability: People management

• Partner with the People Leads and People Partners and manage direct reports in order to deliver the objectives of Talent Management, collaborating with RB Learning, Talent Acquisition and Reward CoEs to enable the end to end value chain of the talent agenda.

Accountability: Risk Management and Governance

• Identify and take accountability for all relevant Talent risks in line with Absa’s People Risk Management Framework and ensure that adequate controls and monitoring mechanisms are in place including for acquisition, onboarding, development, promotions and off-boarding.
• Promote and role model a culture of proactive compliance and risk management within executive and management teams, and the function as a whole.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)