HR Site Lead Cape Town

GSK; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A global health products company in Cape Town is seeking an experienced HR Site Lead Manufacturing. The ideal candidate will develop local people strategies, partner with site leadership to enhance performance, and lead talent management initiatives. With over 10 years of HR experience, candidates should possess strong interpersonal and project management skills. This full-time role offers the opportunity to drive organizational change and foster a high-performance culture, while ensuring compliance with labor laws.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in Human Resources, including 3-4 years as a Site Lead.
• Ability to design people strategy aligned with site needs.
• Strong communication skills for effective engagement.

Responsibilities

• Develop and drive proactive talent strategy across the organization.
• Support a high-performance culture through effective goal setting.
• Lead business transformation efforts and foster engagement initiatives.

Skills

Talent strategy development

Employee relations

Project management

Interpersonal skills

Change management

Education

University degree in Business or Human Resources

Job description

Role Overview

Haleons Cape Town site manufactures health products in solids liquids and powders with complex regulatory factors technical processes and high-risk activities. We are currently seeking an HR Site Lead Manufacturing to join our team in Epping. The HR Site Lead will develop the local people strategy & priorities based on the site and functional needs driving the business strategy and global people priorities. They will partner and coach the Site Leadership team to impact performance drive growth and operational excellence through talent capability performance engagement and organisation effectiveness. The HR Site Lead is also accountable for driving functional and cultural transformation.

Key Responsibilities

Talent & Capability

• Develop and drive a proactive talent strategy across the organisation partnering with business leaders to identify develop and retain key talent and drive diversity.
• Lead regular talent and succession planning sessions on the site using potential and readiness mapping (Assess). Identify successors for key roles assess bench strength and define targeted development actions with leaders to enhance capability needs.
• Partner with TA Teams to ensure quality of hires and enhance employer branding by providing insights into employee experience and company culture. Support early career recruitment by participating in site events and developing outreach strategies suited to your market.
• Drive capability development by aligning talent strategies with business goals identifying skill gaps and implementing targeted training and development programs utilising functional and global learning programs where necessary.
• Own leadership development for site leadership teams and potential successors ensuring right coaching mentoring and support is in place to develop impactful inclusive and inspiring leaders.

Performance Management

• Partner with leaders to drive a high-performance culture through effective goal setting feedback development and performance review practices. Support upskilling and leadership development.
• Support performance management and change initiatives to foster a culture of continuous learning ensuring the workforce is equipped to meet organizational objectives.

Organisation Effectiveness

• Lead or support business transformation efforts drive organisational redesign to become future-fit and embed change management practices to improve agility and effectiveness.
• Serve as a coach and thought partner to business leaders helping them enhance leadership impact develop their teams and build organizational health.
• Leverage data and AI to provide insight into workforce trends across all core HR metrics inform opportunities to drive performance and impact further and measure the effectiveness of people initiatives.

Culture & Engagement

• Act as a culture steward by leading engagement initiatives interpreting feedback (e.g. surveys) enabling action planning and championing values and behaviours.
• Drive cultural transformation with the leadership team ensuring that all levels of the organisation are clear on behaviours and expectations to support the overall business growth.
• Manage employee relations cases ensure compliance with local labor laws and HR policies advise managers on people risks and uphold a fair and consistent approach to issue resolution.
• Partner with the business to create inclusive environments drive equitable talent practices and improve representation and belonging across the employee lifecycle.

One HR

• Build strong relationships with COEs (eg Talent Reward Learning Org Effectiveness) to collaborate for impact and drive initiatives required for the business needs.
• Partner with People Services to ensure seamless employee lifecycle management including hiring onboarding movers organisational changes and exits.
• Encourage self-service where possible partnering with People Services to ensure employees are able to access information they require seamlessly.
• Maintain data accuracy and compliance and use Workday for reporting and insight generation.

HR Operations & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with labour legislation company policies and plant safety standards.
• Maintain accurate HR data for supply chain employees including time and attendance leave and records management.
• Generate and analyse HR metrics and reports to identify trends and recommend actions.
• Coordinate with Health & Safety and Industrial Relations teams as required.

Industrial Relations

• Foster a constructive employee relations climate by designing and implementing proactive engagement strategies that promote trust transparency and compliance with labour legislation.
• Lead the resolution of complex employee relations matters including disciplinary processes labour court & CCMA cases organisational restructures and change management initiatives ensuring alignment with business objectives and legal frameworks.
• Promote fair and constructive industrial relations within the plant environment.
• Provide guidance and coaching on employee relations performance management disciplinary procedures and conflict resolution.

Basic Qualifications

• University degree in Business or Human Resources.
• 10 years of experience in Human Resources 3-4 years as a Site Lead with accountability for various client groups.
• Extensive experience in HR in a variety of HR functions (generalist recruitment talent & succession planning learning & development compensation & benefits employee & labor relations cultural transformation) plus management of staff is an asset.
• Ability to learn quickly create innovative solutions work effectively in teams and develop & inspire others.
• Ability to design people strategy & priorities aligned to the site and functional needs.
• Project & change management (eg. organisational design & effectiveness) ability to operate in complex environment with minimal supervision and competing demands.
• Strong interpersonal skills relationship management and influencing skills to advise and coach leaders at all levels in the organization to ultimately drive performance & effectiveness.
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking.
• Strong communication storytelling and listening skills for effective engagement and influence.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Masters degree an asset but not required.
• Experience in a food pharmaceutical or consumer health manufacturing environment a major asset.

Key Skills

Information Management, Interventional Radiology, Finance Control, Account Management, Aircraft, Jboss

Equal Opportunities

Haleon is committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. Its important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

Adjustment or Accommodations Request

If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We will provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence.

Note to candidates

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon please get in touch.

Employment Type

Full-Time

Experience

years

Vacancy

1