HR Business Partner - Contract

A leading pharmaceutical company is seeking an HR Business Partner to join their team for a 12 month contract period.

Job Purpose :

• 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 the Group’s Top Employer (TE) Accreditation and Employment Equity Framework, including the submission of the Audit Reports, TE Survey and Equity Reports.
• 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 Forensics Factory and support the Commercial organization.

Responsibilities :

Effective Business Partnering :

• Coach, build, and enable manager capability and effectiveness by ensuring that practices and processes are aligned with the business and HR strategies.
• Act as a business partner for the assembly plant and commercial businesses, 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.
• Talent Acquisition (i.e. recruitment, offers, onboarding etc).
• Change Management.
• Ensure HR Administration excellence across all operations and functions within the Business Unit.
• Support the Business with appropriate HR practices 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 to address these issues.

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 the agreed recruitment and selection process and turnaround times required.
• Create HR documentation such as employee contracts and ad hoc letters.
• Onboarding : responsible for the company-wide onboarding program and 90-day follow-up process.

Industrial Relations :

• Provide advice and support to Line Managers on Disciplinary and Grievance matters.
• Ensures 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 (CSI) and Company Events :

• Run initiatives a minimum of once a quarter.
• Manage and maintain relationships with the relevant beneficiaries and / or key stakeholders.
• End-to-end execution of company events for the Group.
• Responsible for gathering company event information for the Newsletter. This includes reviewing articles before submission.

Employment Equity :

• Responsible for the submission of the annual report to the DOL.
• Responsible for the quarterly data presented to the EE committee.
• Promote the interest of all employees in the workplace through skills development.
• Review our demographic profile and identify measures to address gaps that hinder the promotion of diversity and inclusion within the Employment Equity Plan.
• Review, on an annual basis, progress made by the business towards achieving employment equity goals as contained in the Employment Equity Plan.
• Provide considered input and recommendations to the business via the committee.
• Prepare and circulate the minutes of all committee meetings and track action points.

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 Forensics Factory management 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 Informatica queries.
• Custodian of the Performance Management System, Collaborator.
• HR Digital Components : Surveys / presentations / systems.

Policies and Procedures :

• Redrafting and revising 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.

Qualifications and Requirements :

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Post-graduate qualification advantageous, specialising in HR / Industrial or Organisational Psychology.
• Minimum 6 years HR experience within the pharmaceutical / medical industry, for a multinational organisation. (non-negotiable).
• Proven track record of the submission of the Top Employer Accreditation.
• Proven track record of all HR audit submissions and Employment Equity submissions.
• 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 wider responsibility.
• Lead by example in managing stress and pressure appropriately.
• Being flexible to the needs of the changing environment, plan priorities, following through to ensure that quality standards of own work are consistently and accurately maintained.

Candidates that meet the criteria may apply via this portal or via www.mnarecruitment.com.

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