Senior HR Business Partner 17 views

Purpose:

A pharmaceutical company is seeking a Senior HR Business Partner who will bbe responsible to:

• Provide HRBP services and handle specific HR projects within the group, to achieve the group’s goals and strategic objectives on a sustainable basis
• Be accountable for full compliance in line with local legislation, company policies and procedures
• Focus on company Group’s HR Governance and Learning and Development Framework, including the submission of Audit Reports and WSP/ATR
• Communicate, ensure implementation and maintain compliance with values, behaviours, local HR policies, practices, procedures, local labour laws and regulation
• Act as the HRBP for the commercial organisation

Key Job Outputs:

Effective business partnering

• Coach, build, enable manager capability and effectiveness by ensuring that practices and processes are aligned with the business and HR strategies
• Act as business partner locally and for FWA, facilitator, trusted advisor and coach on all HR related issues for the businesses, under the guidance of the HR Manager and/or designate
• Coach managers to effectively drive execution of annual and daily processes:
  • Performance management
  • Annual compensation processes in alignment with globally practices
  • Talent acquisition (i.e. recruitment, offers, onboarding etc.)
  • Talent management process, succession planning, performance management process
  • Change management
• Ensure HR Administration excellence across all operations and functions within the business unit
• Support the business with appropriate HR practises to facilitate business transformation
• Actively build relationships and network with business team and line management through communicating appropriately and proactively providing solutions to address business needs
• Work with line managers to identify key trends, shifts or issues relating to people that impact on strategy delivery and ensure that an effective HR plan is in place address these issues

Learning and development

• Facilitate the WSP/ATR process by, collating of data on relevant spreadsheet
• Ensure completed plan is submitted by end April of each year (as per SETA reporting timelines)
• Apply for relevant Discretionary Grants (DG) during the appropriate windows
• Ensure that relevant deliverables (reports) for DGs are submitted to SETA by submission date/s
• Ensures skills development is optimised through learnerships and proper administration and recording of all training interventions
• Implement a Skills Matrix for all employees and maintain the database
• Plan all training sessions (Internal and External) in line with skills matrix and training budget
• Standardise non-GMP training reporting to HR Department
• Manage the training on-line system via the e-LMS system
• Learnership: delivering the yearly sales learnership (on-boarding, graduation, off-boarding, absorption into the business)

Recruitment/talent management/success planning

• Implement, drive and manage a fair and consistent recruitment practice that is aligned to the EE Act
• Manage the engagement of successful candidates by ensuring that all the required documents are completed and signed and processed through Payroll
• Recruit, select and place candidates in terms of agreed recruitment and selection process and turnaround times required
• Create HR documentation such as employee contracts and ad hoc letters

Industrial relations

• Provide advice and support to Line Managers on Disciplinary and Grievance matters
• Ensure full HR / IR compliance with all labour related (and other relevant) legislation, including BCEA, LRA, SDA, OHASA, etc.
• Facilitate adherence to HR policies and procedures
• Management of Performance Improvement Plans (PIP)

Corporate Social Initiatives

• Run initiatives a minimum of once a quarter
• Manage and maintain relationships with the relevant beneficiaries and/or key stakeholders

HR governance

• Provide requested HR information for all internal and external audits (Deloitte/ PWC/ QA/ COIDA/ Dept of Labour audits and site visits)
• Own the process of assessing and submitting documentation for HR Audits
• Submit information for compensation and benefit bench marking processes as well as identify and recommend areas of opportunity to improve

Payroll

• Solid understanding of reconciling billings: Discovery Medical Aid/ AF Pension and Provident Fund
• Understand and process end-to-end Disability Claims and Funeral Claims
• Review monthly payroll and verify input against instructions from the FWA team
• Review and ensure sign off by relevant parties of the monthly payroll variances against the input

HR digital/systems

• Ensure that data on Bamboo HR is up-to-date, assisting with HR related Informetica queries
• Custodian of the performance management system, collaborator
• HR digital components: surveys/ presentations/ systems

Policies and procedures

• Redraft and revise all HR policies and procedures, in line with the business needs, current legislation and best market practice
• Track updates and make changes (if necessary) before specified expiry dates
• Generate Change Control (CCs) for all policy updates, revisions, etc.

Core Competencies:

• Drive for excellence, ability to manage complexity and change management dynamics
• Ability to work and manage in a virtual environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills, analytical skills, strong self-drive, high level of perseverance and patience, good interdependent partnering skills, listening skills, communication skills
• Time management, service orientation, integrity, confidentiality, assertiveness, attention to detail, reliable, enthusiastic, effective approach to team working, focused, consistent, accountable, self-management, committed
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively within a changing environment
• Work independently with a high degree of responsibility
• Work well under pressure and to deadlines
• Excellent ability to relate with a multicultural team and drive to build a diverse workforce – with a good mix of gender and nationality diversity
• Willingness to develop personal skills and take a wider responsibility
• Lead by example in managing stress and pressure appropriately
• Being flexible to the needs of the chancing environment, plan priorities, following through to ensure that quality standards of own work are consistently and accurately maintained
• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities and demonstrate effective self-management

Qualifications:

• Pre- requisite related Bachelor’s Degree
• Post-graduate qualification advantageous, specialising in HR/ Industrial or Organisational Psychology

Experience:

• Minimum 7 years HR experience within the pharmaceutical/ medical industry, for a multinational organisation. (non-negotiable)
• Minimum 5 years senior HRBP/ HR Management experience
• Proven track record of all HR audit submissions and WSP/ATR for CHIETA submissions

Salary:   Market related

Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, kindly consider your application as unsuccessful.

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