Senior Reward Manager - JHB at Anglo American

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the ongoing development of the Anglo American reward philosophy, to ensure alignment with the Group’s strategic objectives and organisation and operating models.
• Support the development of South Africa’s reward systems, policies, and processes to be consistent with the Group’s reward philosophy.
• Partner with Group Function and discipline heads and P&O Business Partners to support the reward organisational ‘health’ of local employees, working in collaboration with the Business Reward teams across South Africa and other countries to ensure reward effectiveness globally.
• Drive the implementation of reward principles, policies, and processes for South Africa, working in conjunction with the Business Reward teams to drive consistency and effectiveness.
• Drive delivery of best-in-class reward communications throughout the cycle.
• Drive the provision of a consistent and robust job grading policy and process.
• Deliver the annual remuneration review process (including salary adjustment, bonus and share awards) for the Corporate Centre including coordination of share purchases of JSE share awards in conjunction with the Group Share Plans team, including collating data for share plan nominations and vesting and dealing with participant queries.
• Support wage negotiations for collectively bargained employees.
• Support global and South African reward projects and initiatives.
• Oversee benefit design, harmonisation, administration, and governance work.
• Manage Reward and headcount aspects of statutory reporting required by the Department of Labour.
• Input into budgets and personnel cost planning as required.
• Relationship management of external suppliers including pension and share plan administration providers and other benefit providers.
• Ensure South African compliance with legal, tax and other regulatory requirements.

Role-specific knowledge:

• Deep understanding of all aspects of broad reward
• Reward systems and how they interact with other HR systems (Patterson and Willis Towers Watson job evaluation knowledge)
• South Africa-specific tax rules and reporting requirements
• Project management fundamentals
• Business improvement tools and techniques
• Commercial/business drivers in discipline and business performance
• The mining industry and how HR adds value to the mining industry (advantageous)
• Financial metrics and how they feed into reward.

Experience:

• Proven track record of at least 10 years’ experience within rewards and minimum 2 – 3 years’ management experience.

Qualifications:

• Degree in a relevant discipline.
• Desirable: GRP Certification with professional designation of Reward Specialist or higher.