People Business Partner: ZHQ & Support Functions at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Job Summary, 

The Key Purpose of this role is to drive, coach, and support Line Managers in delivering People processes and ensure that they will deliver support to their customer that is integrated, enables and adds value to the function/business unit.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Serve as the People driver and coach to the leaders and leadership team in leading, managing and supporting their teams to deliver on the business strategy using the appropriate tools and knowledge.
• Develop a deep understanding of the business’s operations, its performance drivers and metrics, in order to deliver cost effective and value added People programmes and solutions that will enhance overall business performance. 
• Build strong relationships with the Solutions functional teams based on mutual respect and trust, in order to partner effectively, influence decision making and coach on a range of confidential and sensitive issues
• Ensure that the People service delivered is aligned to results of the respective business unit / function.
• Critically review transactional People work on an ongoing basis and provide input to potential solutions to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Drive the resolution of customer issues and constantly look for opportunities to improve the People service.
• Implement local policies, reviewing these and using the appropriate protocols to deal with exceptions, working with the appropriate Specialists.
• Coach, support, mentor and challenge managers in the application of People policies and practices, provide advice and guidance on People issues in order to minimize risk and financial exposure.
•  Share and leverage best practices with other People Business Partners in the broader People Team.
• Coordinate implementation of services, policies, and programmes in conjunction with Specialists and provide feedback to the Specialists on the  effectiveness and impact of People solutions and processes work with them as appropriate to ensure continuous improvement.
• Report performance data in alignment with the agreed Functional Targets (TSC)

Minimum Requirements:

•  University Degree in Human Resources, Business or related discipline or an equivalent experience.
• Workday, SAP & IR experience

Key Competence:

•  Track record of building good relationships and credibility with business leaders based on solid commercial understanding and an ability to identify customer needs and go beyond just delivering defined People solutions
• Ability to solve business problems pragmatically and at speed assimilating issues and ideas into clear requirements, generating solutions based on own insight or learning.
•  Personal and career maturity to comfortably guide and coach leaders and managers.
•  Strong communication, engagement and interpersonal skills delivers impactful messages and influences outcomes.
• Experience in aligning structure, process and routines to implement and anchor changes.
• Sound familiarity with good People specialist disciplines and how to best leverage these ranging from talent management and career development, recruitment, performance management, organizational development and design, compensation and benefits, to learning and development.