Jobs Available at Plennegy Group

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Compensation Strategy & Execution

• Lead participation in market salary surveys and perform detailed compensation benchmarking and analysis.
• Develop and maintain group pay structures and guide rates used for CTC Packages, STIP (Short-Term Incentives Plans), and SICP (Sales Incentive Compensation Plans).
• Create and maintain tools for employees to structure their salaries annually, and for HRBPs to make aligned and competitive job offers.
• Lead the annual merit and promotion cycles, including tool preparation, analysis, stakeholder engagement, and implementation support.
• Design and maintain SICP as required.

Job Grading & Organisational Design

• Lead job grading sessions and provide expert guidance to the grading committee.
• Coordinate validation of job grades through REMCO and update group-wide grade maps accordingly.
• Distribute and maintain accurate grading documentation across the group.

Benefits Management

• Evaluate, develop, and implement employee benefit proposals to ensure internal equity, market competitiveness, and group-wide alignment.
• Lead strategic benefits alignment projects, some of which are long-term initiatives extending over multiple years.
• Incentives & Performance-based Pay
• Prepare STIP documentation annually for budgeting, approvals, and final payout processes.
• Monitor incentive outcomes and ensure ongoing alignment with business and performance objectives.

Remuneration Tools & Communication

• Develop and manage compensation tools and templates used for salary structuring, offers, and adjustments.
• Partner with HRBPs and leadership to ensure the correct application of tools and policies.
• Support communication and training on remuneration tools and policies.

Projects & Strategic Initiatives

• Serve as project lead on all Compensation and Benefits-related initiatives and transformation projects across the group.
• Drive planning, implementation, stakeholder engagement, and corrective action across multiple business entities.

Policy & Governance

• Regularly review and update Compensation & Benefits policies and related documentation (e.g., Car Policy, HR Handbook, Remuneration Policy).
• Ensure adherence to internal governance frameworks and external legal requirements.

Reporting & Analytics

• Use data insights to monitor trends, flag issues, and support evidence-based decision-making in C&B.
• Produce Power BI dashboards and detailed reports post-merit cycle, shared with the Board of Directors via the BI platform.

REQUIREMENTS:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Finance, Business Management, or a related field.
• World at Work: GRP
• SARA Membership Certified as a Chartered Rewards Practitioner

Experience:

• Minimum 5-8 years’ experience in Compensation and Benefits or Total Rewards within a multi-entity environment.
• Experience engaging with REMCO and senior executive stakeholders preferred.
• Experience with Short Term and Sales Incentive Plans an added advantage

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RESPONSIBLITIES:

Management, receipt, registration and dispatch of seed samples:

Assist with the receipt, registration, dispatch and management of seed samples for:

• General quality determination
• Genetic verification (grow-outs)
• Pathology tests
• 3rd party tests by the NDA etc.
• Comparative testing, etc.
• Seed samples for trials.

Maintenance, management and keeping of electronic and hard copy data / records:

Keep electronic records/registers of all outgoing / incoming samples as well as results thereof for:

• General quality determination
• Genetic verification (grow-outs)
• Pathology tests
• 3rd party tests by the NDA etc.
• Comparative testing, etc.
• Capture and maintain accurate records of all test results on internal database

Assist with Quality control Coordination procedures:

• Assist with timeous and accurate compiling of all Quality Control related matters / reports.
• Stock due for testing reports
• Assist with orders for technical items required for the labs.
• Depot temperature reports
• GLOBALGAP reports
• Laboratory certificates
• Assist with physical and technical laboratory duties.
• Assist with seed write-off requests and management of physical write-off.
• Assist with identification, development and management systems of new procedures which will contribute to improved workload and time management.

Perform general administrative and other duties:

Secretarial services

• Typing of all letters, memos, reports etc. when requested.
• Develop, manages and maintain a filing system and files all documents in an orderly manner.
• Sending of faxes and general Company correspondence.
• Receives incoming calls, deals with them professionally and promptly and ensures that messages are distributed and tended to as speedily as possible.
• Arranges air travel and booking of accommodation as and when required.
• Monitors movements of designated personnel during periods of absence from the office and ensures that he/she/they may be contacted with the minimum delay when required.

Confidential Communications

• Maintains a high level of responsibility and integrity when dealing with matters of a confidential nature.
• Maintains a watchful eye in the office/laboratory environment, ensuring that no confidential documents are left unattended.

Conference and Meetings

• Organizes conference, meetings and other Company functions as required.
• Takes minutes at meetings and distributes them as required.

Customer Service

• Creates a culture of superior customer service in his/her dealings with internal and external customers.
• Acts responsibly and professionally at all times, fostering goodwill and a positive image for the Company.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Grade 12 National Senior Certificate
• Knowledge of agricultural legislation or phytosanitary procedures.
• Driver's license
• Own transport