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People & Culture Manager

Hiring House
3 days ago
Full-time
On-site
Western Cape
Company Culture & Engagement
We are looking for a People & Culture Manager to join our team.


Key Responsibilities:
  • Partner with managers to understand workforce needs and develop proactive talent strategies to achieve those.
  • Provide thought leadership on organisational design, workforce planning, and future skills requirements.
  • Support transformation programmes and ensure measurable progress against KPIs.
  • Guide objective setting, mid-and-performance appraisal processes and implementing performance improvement initiatives where needed.
  • Ensure training and development plans are aligned with long-term organisational capability needs and support the roll-out of development programmes.
  • Implement workforce and succession plans, talent and pipeline development strategies ensuring equitable access to development and clear career paths.
  • Lead workforce planning processes to ensure optimal resource allocation.
  • Forecast future workforce demand, identify supply risks and capability gaps.
  • Deliver recruitment strategies, ensuring alignment with employment equity and transformation objectives
  • Drive and embed a positive employee relations culture, ensuring proactive resolution of workplace issues.
  • Act as an expert advisor on complex ER matters, providing guidance on case law and policy interpretation's collaborative and 
  • Work with managers and employees to prevent risks from escalating, manage and resolve issues and grievances timely.
  • Support initiatives to strengthen organisational culture, including staff surveys, engagement programmes and recognition strategies.
  • Ensure compliance with labour legislation, employment equity. BBBEE and organisational policies and process.
  • Identify and report on risks and implement mitigation strategies.
  • Present workforce analytics and insights enabling data-driven decision-making.
Key Requirements:
Qualification:
  • Postgraduate degree in Human Resources, Industrial Psychology, or related field.
  • 8 years HR generalist experience, with at least 5 years at Manager level.
Experience:
  • Proven track record in matrixed, dual-governance, or multi-stakeholder environments.
  • Experience in large-scale projects, research institutions, or technical/engineering sectors.
  • Skilled at managing complex employee relations matters.

Please call us on 010 030 0127 for more information. 
NB: Should you not hear from us in 6weeks please consider your application unsuccessful.