Strategic People Partner - Stellenbosch at Capitec Bank

• We’re looking for a Strategic People Partner who doesn’t just support the business but helps shape it. Someone who can confidently take a seat at the table, challenge thinking, and partner with leaders to build teams that truly move the needle. 

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partner with senior leaders to co-create and deliver people strategies aligned to real business priorities.
• Operate as a thought partner to executives, connecting business strategy, people priorities, and organisational choices to drive long-term impact.
• Shape organisation and workforce design to enable scale, agility, and effective ways of working.
• Be a trusted advisor -solving complex people challenges and shaping solutions that stick.
• Lead and support enterprise-wide strategic initiatives in partnership with Centres of Excellence.
• Guide leaders across the talent lifecycle, including talent acquisition, performance, succession, and workforce planning.
• Understand the impact of emerging technologies, including AI, and proactively shape workforce capability, roles, and ways of working as the business evolves.
• Drive DEI and employee experience as part of broader business transformation (not standalone initiatives). 

How You Will Create Impact

• Drive end-to-end change management - from diagnosing the need for change to embedding and sustaining it. 
• Design and evolve future-fit organisational structures that enable agility, scalability, and performance. 
• Lead organisation design conversations, including spans, layers, capabilities, and ways of working.  
• Build change capability in leaders, enabling them to lead transformation confidently  
• Use people data, organisational diagnostics, and external trends to proactively shape workforce strategy.  
• Embed new ways of working (agile, digital-first, customer-centric teams). 
• Identify capability gaps and influence upskilling and reskilling strategies for the future. 
• Act as a connector across the business, breaking silos to enable integrated people solutions  

What You Bring
You’re not just experienced - you’re strategically wired and impact-driven. 

• You bring 8+ years’ experience as a Strategic HR / People Partner, with a track record of delivering real outcomes. 
• You’ve partnered with leaders at an executive senior, strategic level, shaping direction - not just supporting it. 
• You understand business strategy and how people enable it (beyond HR frameworks).  
• You’ve led or supported change, restructuring, and organisational design in complex environments.  
• You’re confident challenging thinking and influencing stakeholders, with credibility and care. 
• You balance strong people intuition with data-driven decision-making.  

The Foundation: 

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Human Resources, Commerce, or Industrial / Organisational Psychology.  
• Ideally, a postgraduate qualification and HPCSA registration.  
• Strong HR generalist capability, with sound knowledge of governance, systems, and labour legislation.  

The Edge: 

• You’re an energy-giver - someone deeply connected to the business, who can read the room, sense what’s needed, and move seamlessly between strategic thinking and hands-on execution to drive meaningful, lasting impact.