People and Culture Business Partner at Exxaro Resources

Job Advert Summary    

PURPOSE:

• To operationalise the Group People Strategy, Policy and Processes in area of responsibility. To ensure a sustainable organisational capability.
• Execute Business Unit medium and short-term people plans. To lead the building of the Business Unit People and Culture plan.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• The organisational capability to attract and retain talent and skills in order to meet the business objectives. Working in a matrix structure.
• Manage relationships with line management, employees and Unions, to ensure they take accountability for their people processes.
• To advocate and influence Business Unit People and Culture related objectives and practices.

Minimum Requirements    

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BCom Human Resources Management (Essential/Minimum or)
• B-Degree HR Management (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate Labour Relations Dev Prog (Recommended/Desirable)
• Certificate First Line Management (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 3-5 years Relevant Human Resources operational or related experience (Essential/Minimum)Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)

Duties & Responsibilities    
Change enablement  

• Lead change interventions that integrate strategy, technology, and people to drive value
• Create actionable deliverables for core components of the change management strategy including communications plan, training plan, and support plan
• Collaborate with line managers in driving stakeholder engagement, impact analysis, learning/training, communications, business readiness, deployment, and adoption measurement throughout technology/digitization/projects
• Partner with internal stakeholders to drive ongoing adoption of technology and business process improvement post-deployment

Culture and People  

• Ensure compliance to Human Resources (HR) Strategies, Plans, Policies and Practices adhere and comply with corporate and Business Units HR governance, statutory, legal and other requirements for area of responsibility
• Promote awareness of People & Culture objectives, policies, and processes to all employees in the BU
• Evaluate, build, and maintain a wide variety of People and culture related initiatives such as team building activities, and diversity and inclusion etc.
• Drive a best employee experience in partnership with line managers and other internal stakeholders
• Act as first point of contact for line managers/employee people and culture queries
• Conducts appropriate check-ins to pulse check engagement and ensure Return on Investment (ROI)
• Provide implementation support of the people strategy and culture transformation

Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management

• Communicate and market HR service offering
• Establish and maintain business partner relationships with internal clients to facilitate optimal functioning for area of responsibility
• Manage internal relations to ensure that business needs are met
• Provide relevant and specialised support to applicable stakeholders
• Act as trusted advisor to line management
• Continuously improve HR Service Delivery to ensure customer satisfaction
• Conduct regular review sessions with line manager and HR Manager to assess performance against agreed target/Service Level Agreements (SLA’s)
• Maintain in depth knowledge of production working area/s to enable effective and efficient solutions to line management

Employee Relations  

• Co-responsible for effective Employer Relations (ER) climate in area of responsibility/BU
• Coach and educate internal stakeholders on ER related legislation and policy application in area of responsibility/BU
• Ensure compliance to transformation plans, legislation, ER policies and procedures in area of responsibility/BU
• Act as advisor to employees and line management on disciplinary and grievance processes and other legislative requirements

Internal Business Processes 

• Optimise existing systems and processes to enhance delivery on organisation requirements
• Partner with Line in managing Remuneration within Policy and Process guidelines, to attract, retain and motivate employees
• Identify business related people challenges in collaboration with line management and the brokering of appropriate solutions
• Ensure that HR assurance findings are actioned and implemented as per HR assurance reports
• Partner with Line manager in building the business unit workforce plans
• Assist in the design and verification of BU org structures
• Validate master data integrity for BU
• Ensure implementation of Human Resources Development (HRD) plans
• Oversee compilation of job profiles and compile complex profiles
• Enable line management to deal with people issues (absenteeism, sick leave, consequence management etc.)
• Participate and/or Manage HR related projects and interventions
• Work closely with other People Partners in a wide variety of tasks including benefits, leave of absences, recruitment, on boarding, safety, or employee relations
• Identify cost inefficiencies pertaining to people cost of the business and formulate action plans to address these

Process Management and Optimisation  

• Interpret, communicate and implement HR policy and strategy for area of responsibility
• Provide advice on people matters in relation to HR value chain
• Oversee recruitment process and verify if critical compliance issues are adhered to
• Liaise with line management on People Performance Process (PPP)/Individual Development Plans (IDP)/Business Plan and GAP analysis to ensure optimal future workforce composition
• Oversee, participate and monitor implementation and impact of change management initiatives

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations
• Behavioural Alignment 

Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective

Closing Date    
2023/02/17