People & Culture Manager

The Hiring House; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hiring House is seeking an experienced HR professional to lead workforce planning, talent strategy, and employee relations in a South African setting. This role focuses on designing organisational structure, developing capability through training, and driving governance across multiple stakeholders.

You will guide performance management, implement transformation programmes, and ensure fair, compliant processes.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to navigate matrixed, dual-governance settings.
• Experience managing complex employee relations matters.
• Strong leadership and people-management capabilities.

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.

Skills

Matrixed environments

Stakeholder management

Employee relations

People leadership

Education

Postgraduate degree in HR/Industrial Psychology

Job description

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.