Jobs at Robert Walters

• Our client is seeking a Senior Total Reward Manager to lead the development, implementation, and governance of a Total Reward Strategy that attracts, motivates, and retains top talent. This role ensures full alignment with business strategy, corporate culture, and applicable governance frameworks. It encompasses strategic and operational oversight of all reward components — including compensation, benefits, well being, recognition, and incentive design — along with leadership oversight of the payroll and benefits function.
• Lead the development of a market-relevant Total Reward Strategy.
• Ensure compliance with King IV principles of responsible remuneration governance.
• Provide strategic leadership on the design and management of employee benefit offerings.

What you'll do:

• As a Senior Total Reward Manager, you will be pivotal in supporting the REMCO and ensuring our client meets the remuneration governance standards.
• You will have the opportunity to develop a market-relevant Total Reward Strategy that integrates financial and non-financial rewards.
• Your role will also involve leading the consistent application of job evaluation methodology to ensure equitable grading.
• You will participate in remuneration benchmarking surveys and perform competitive market analyses to inform salary positioning and reward recommendations.
• Develop and embed a market-relevant Total Reward Strategy.
• Design a Reward Philosophy that supports performance, equity, and affordability.
• Drive total reward innovation in response to internal business needs and external market trends.
• Lead consistent application of job evaluation methodology to ensure equitable grading.
• Participate in remuneration benchmarking surveys and perform competitive market analyses.
• Design, implement, and review performance-based Short-Term Incentive (STI) and Long-Term Incentive (LTI) schemes.
• Provide strategic leadership on the design and management of employee benefit offerings.
• Ensure compliance with King IV principles of responsible remuneration governance.

What you bring:

• The ideal candidate for the Senior Total Reward Manager position brings a wealth of experience in Total Reward or Remuneration & Benefits. You possess strong exposure to listed company governance and remuneration reporting. Your deep knowledge of South African labour and tax legislation will be crucial in this role. You are known for your strategic and commercial thinking skills, as well as your analytical and financial acumen. Your executive communication and presentation skills will be invaluable in this role, as will your ability to influence stakeholders and build relationships.
• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Finance, Business, or related field.
• Minimum 8+ years of experience in Total Reward or Remuneration & Benefits.
• Strong exposure to listed company governance and remuneration reporting.
• Deep knowledge of South African labour and tax legislation.
• Strategic and commercial thinking skills.
• Analytical and financial acumen.
• Executive communication and presentation skills.
• Stakeholder influence and relationship-building skills.

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• Our client is seeking a People Consultant for their People & Organisation division. This role offers the opportunity to provide deep support, HR & ER expertise and advice using a coaching framework. You will be involved in a wide array of engagements with leaders around performance management, talent acquisition, mobility, succession, talent retention and employee relations. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where your skills and experience will be highly valued.
• Provide HR & ER expertise
• Engage with leaders on performance management and talent acquisition
• Contribute to employee relations

What you'll do:

• As a People Consultant, you will play a crucial role in providing deep support, HR & ER expertise and advice using a coaching framework.
• Your day-to-day responsibilities will involve consulting across the employee lifecycle, ensuring that the employee experience aligns with the company's culture.
• You will partner with various business areas to formulate ideas, optimise solutions and enable people strategies.
• Your role will also involve coaching on recruitment and onboarding, performance and conduct, transformation as well as facilitating the implementation of people strategies.
• Consult across the employee lifecycle, in partnership with P & O Leads
• Ensure the employee experience is entrenched in the company's culture
• Partner with business areas to formulate ideas, optimise solutions and enable people strategies
• Consult and coach on recruitment and onboarding, performance and conduct, transformation, facilitation and implementation of people strategies
• Leverage and use of internal skills and talent (internal mobility)
• Facilitate succession planning and career pathing guidance

What you bring:

• The ideal candidate for this People Consultant role will bring a deep understanding of company culture along with extensive knowledge and experience in relation to people management.
• You should have commercial acumen along with an appreciation of the regulatory environment.
• Your strong coaching and consulting skills will be essential for this role. Additionally, you should be able to effectively manage retrenchment, misconduct, poor performance, grievances, and retirement processes.
• Deep understanding of company culture
• Knowledge and experience in relation to people management
• Commerciality and an appreciation of the regulatory environment
• Coaching and consulting skills
• Ability to manage retrenchment, misconduct, poor performance, grievances, and retirement processes