Senior People Business Partner - Product & Tech at Yoco

The Opportunity

• We are looking for an experienced Senior People Business Partner to join our Cape Town based People & Culture team, dedicated to our Product & Technology teams.
• You will partner closely with key business leaders by aligning talent initiatives with business strategies. You will provide full spectrum support across teams based both locally and globally, strategically and tactically, through projects and programs dedicated to bringing the Yoco employee experience to life.

What You Will Be Doing

• Guide leaders in the design and evolution of their functions (structure and leadership) to be fit for future challenges. This includes developing people strategies and career plans that enable business results both now and in the future
• Drive people experience projects from design to execution.
• Provide change management support for all organisational changes
• Design and implement Leadership development journeys.
• Drive robust Talent Management practises including Talent Mapping and Talent Planning
• Drive conversations and initiatives to shape and evolve our culture and ensure our values are lived consistently.
• Coordinate with specialists inside the People & Culture team to deliver HR programs to the business, including, Career frameworks, Leadership Development Programs, L&D roadmaps, Compensation and Performance management cycles.
• Partner leaders to build highly effective teams who deliver with excellence

About You

• You have previous experience experience as a People Business Partner, working with senior leadership within tech and product teams
• You are analytical with a metrics-driven approach to talent solutions and have the ability to leverage people analytics and insights to create compelling narratives for change to gain sponsorship.
• You have significant depth in organisational design, people manager development and coaching, facilitation, and employee relations.
• You are able to bring the employee experience journey to life through innovative programs, relevant to your functions
• You have effective and influential communication skills with the ability to tailor communication style as needed
• You are an empathetic partner, who can coach employees and managers through complex situations and sensitive matters
• Team oriented builder who understands how to achieve buy-in from diverse constituencies, builds bridges and designs “win-win” solutions across a matrix management organisation
• You are excited about helping us to further develop our People practices while sharing our passion to keep things simple in design, light on process and high on impact.
• You are a strong collaborator and an agent for change in a rapidly evolving business
• As a bonus, You are a student of flow and designing people-systems that are able to deliver on real world systems. While you are not from the product or engineering discipline you have Team Topologies, Inspired, The Managers Path, Creativity Inc and other books from the disciplines on your kindle.