Hr Manager - Nanolabs

Business Unit: Discovery Health

Function: Business Partner / HR Generalist

Date: 4 Feb

HR Manager

About Discovery

Discovery's core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best.

As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Discovery Health People

The Discovery Health People team sits central to the Discovery Health environment and comprises of three functions namely Strategic Enablement, Human Resources and Learning and Development. The team serves as a Centre of Excellence enabling business and operations to realise its strategies from a People perspective.

The Discovery Health People Vision is to be the best people function globally, focused on placing the best people, developing and retaining them to enable the business vision. We achieve this through a deliberate focus on four People Pillars:

1. Attracting and retaining the best talent, and providing an environment for optimal performance, impact and contribution;
2. Cultivating and sustaining a culture of diversity and inclusion, where all our employees have a sense of belonging;
3. Developing and enhancing employee and leadership capability;
4. Offering a rich employee value proposition, prioritising superior employee experience and employee wellbeing.

The culture within the department is to continuously seek ways to elevate the People function through constant learning, knowledge sharing and innovation while driving best practice and change throughout Discovery Health.

Key Purpose

Create, implement and manage HR solutions across the employee lifecycle to sustain and grow the business and its staff. This includes bringing transactional HR expertise to the business and its people as well as integrating people strategies with the business strategy.

Areas of Responsibility

1. Recruitment & selection
2. Onboarding
3. Performance (driving for a high performance culture, performance improvement strategies, etc.)
4. Talent Management (planning & tracking of agreed actions)
5. Retention Planning
6. Succession planning
7. IR Transformation: EE & Skills Development
8. Employee relations
9. Reporting & trend analysis
10. Corrective action for HR insights
11. Ensure implementation of HR policies & procedures
12. Partnership with area exec in driving for people objectives & outcomes
13. Engagement & culture management
14. Execution of people strategies & initiatives for own area (area's, DHP & DP)
15. Problem solving (team performance, engagement, culture, turnover, etc.)

Team management

HR team in allocated area/s.

Skills Required

1. Well-developed interpersonal skills
2. Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels from staff to CEO
3. Strong persuasion skills and credibility
4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
5. Ability to be task- and deadline-driven in a highly pressurized environment
6. Excellent organizational & time management skills
7. Ability to work independently

Education and Experience

Qualification: 1-2 years' experience as a HR Manager leading a team.

Experience: Experience working in a hospital / clinical environment (advantageous), Discovery Experience (advantageous).

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.