• Your role, as HR Business Partner is to be responsible for supporting, advising & partnering with regional and global leaders to ensure that global HR strategies and initiatives are executed in alignment with business values, culture, strategic objectives and regional legislative requirements. You will play an active role in ensuring policies and process are kept up to date and in line with legislation changes and will work with leaders to ensure that their people structures are appropriately shaped to achieve the business vision.    
• Reporting into the Global Director, HR, you will be an integral member of the global HR team and will work collaboratively with a global team, to create and implement consistent company HR initiatives across South Africa. 

Key Responsibilities

• You will have a wide and varied role, where you will be able to immediately add value into a growing business. 

Your main responsibilities will include; 

• Provide a high level of HR advice and guidance to a range of senior stakeholders. 
• Build and foster professional, collaborative relationships with regional and global leaders, and the wider HR team, advising on local industry trends and developments 
• Proactively initiate and deliver on effective best practice HR projects and strategies. 
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of legislative updates, updating & educating the business and stakeholders on changes. 
• Work effectively with management to coordinate and resolve complex employee relations issues, negotiating strategically and balancing employee well-being alongside business needs. 
• Build great trusted relationships with managers and employees, remaining impartial and calm when dealing with issues. 
• Work collaboratively with the global HR and Talent functions to develop effective solutions to people related issues, ensuring that strategies and processes are optimised.  
• Lead on local wellbeing, engagement, and organisational design initiatives. 
• Ensure 100% data integrity and quality in systems 
• Overall accountability for the development and implementation of key people strategies to sustain a dynamic, high-performance culture in collaboration with the wider HR leadership team 
• Contributor to setting the global HR corporate strategic plan and accountable for implementing the plan across their respective region 

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

We know you will have a broad skillset, but to thrive in this role we think you will need; 

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in HR, or qualified by experience. 
• Demonstrable experience in a generalist HR leadership role, with experience working as part of a global team effectively. You should have experience developing HR policies that align with business objectives to ensure that business processes are efficient and effective whilst prioritising employee well-being. 
• Experience working with offshore teams, particularly Operations and Software Development would be beneficial, but not essential. 
• A proven track record of developing and implementing HR solutions and initiatives within a corporate environment, taking a strategic approach and mindset to long-term, high impact projects. 
• Effective communication, collaboration and relationship management skills, with experience partnering with and influencing senior leadership, able to present balanced ideas and approaches to the wider business. 
• Significant knowledge and experience applying relevant legislative provisions, regulations and labour laws & Acts. 
• Experience providing effective guidance, mentoring and training to other employees with emotional intelligence and empathy. 
• An analytical mindset, able to analyse data, draw meaningful insights and create informative reports, working with HR Information Systems to support these. 
• A proactive and resourceful approach to problem solving, driven by finding effective solutions and making recommendations as a result of independent research to employee problems within the Company’s financial, legal and ethical parameters.