Senior People Business Partner at ABSA Group

Job Description

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With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

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Job Summary

To provide direction, in partnership with Functional business leadership teams and HR colleagues on the HR agenda by:
• Influencing, shaping and contributing to the development of the functional business area’s agenda and strategy and translating this agenda into action via a fully integrated HR plan.
• Contributing to the leadership of the functional business area by bringing in external best practice, thought leadership and challenging the status quo.
• Being an active, influential partner, coaching and challenging the business to effectively diagnose and implement world class HR solutions that transforms the business and deliver stretch goals

Job Description

To provide direction, in partnership with Functional business leadership teams and HR colleagues on the HR agenda by:

Influencing, shaping and contributing to the development of the functional business area’s agenda and strategy and translating this agenda into action via a fully integrated HR plan.
Contributing to the leadership of the functional business area by bringing in external best practice, thought leadership and challenging the status quo.
Being an active, influential partner, coaching and challenging the business to effectively diagnose and implement world class HR solutions that transforms the business and deliver stretch goals.
Lead business leadership teams, through the interpretation and execution of the Group’s people agenda by:

Turning strategy into real action plans that are aligned to Group and functional business area objectives, driving the plans through to full realization of stated benefits
Excelling at bringing together best practice within the HR community and the resources within the business areas, in order to shape and brilliantly execute the people agenda in a timely manner
Challenging and provoking business leaders on employee engagement by addressing resulting people issues, build organizational capability which delights customers and ensures shareholder satisfaction

HR strategy implementation/ transformational change:

Work as a full member of the functional business leadership team to develop strategy and turn into actions, which clearly contributes to Absa Group objectives.
Drive and actively contribute to the implementation of the People Strategy initiatives and work streams. Ensure the implementation approach is supported, delivered and appropriately ‘landed’ by business leaders.
Work with Business and People & Culture colleagues to assist business in execution of People & Culture strategy, embed change into day-to-day working practice and organisation culture so that high performance becomes the norm.

High Performance Agenda

Implement Group wide to deliver the mindset of high-performance culture, effective consequence management and consistently ‘raise the performance bar’.
Specifically instil, drive and commitment into all aspect of MyContribution including consistency challenge leadership meetings, consequence management of top, high, low and under performers and create an environment in the business where great performers are known and their contribution recognized/valued and rewarded accordingly.

Capability, Succession, Development

Work closely with leadership teams to implement any designated aspects of Group and Business Unit talent action planning processes, understand and drive short- and longer-term capability requirements, succession and talent pipeline.
Support and coach business leaders in developing solutions which enable successful retention strategies and solve capability gaps using internal/ external levers including development, resourcing, training and innovative stretch career experiential opportunities.
Work directly with key stakeholders in the business to assist them in identifying their own capability gaps and solutions to enhance their ability.
Assist in the development, execution and maintenance of skills development Strategy in functions.

Talent Acquisition

Support the business in resourcing and developing talented performers that are world class.
Ensure exceptional standards of professional capability in resourcing our professional and leadership cadres.
Play a strong and direct role in ensuring all resourcing decisions feature ‘no compromise’ in quality of candidates.
Build networks internally and externally to assist with ‘talent spotting’ for future roles.
Ensure and champion Diversity and Inclusion initiatives.

Organization Design & Change Management

Lead and drive management teams in organizational diagnosis, designing an optimal organizational structure aligned to the Absa Group organization design principles and delivery of the strategic business agenda.
Apply agreed change management approach to initiatives and tools and techniques in delivering effective organisational and cultural change in the Business area.

Influence, coach and facilitate

Support and coach senior leadership in implementing the people and culture dimensions of the business strategy defined.
Drive agreed priorities and people & culture initiatives to implementation, ensuring that the business effectively executes the initiatives to create real business value for time, effort and associated cost.

Delivery Management

Work directly with key stakeholders to enhance performance achievement and capability. Act (where appropriate) as the interface with People & Culture Specialist teams to procure services and specialist expertise to design and assist the delivery of integrated people solutions.
Work in partnership with People & Culture Specialist teams to deliver integrated people solutions. Monitor delivery of People & Culture Specialist teams around the requirements of the business area.
Implement and provide feedback around the employee relations environment for the business.
Develop action plans associated with performance improvement and Colleague Experience Survey.
Work with key stakeholders to develop a culture within the Functional Business Unit that underpins Absa’s Employee Value Proposition.

Risk & Governance

Ensure understanding of Absa group policies and governance processes, driving compliance as appropriate within own business area.

Role / Person Specification

General:

Degree in relevant field
7 years generalist experience or HR Consultancy experience

Specific:

Detailed knowledge of external HR best practice, understands and challenges HR policy, direction and practice in a timely way to ensure Absa achieves ‘Employer of Choice’ recognition

Organizational diagnosis, design & development which takes consideration of external trends, conditions and applies best practice to design, develop and facilitate high individual and organizational performance
Employee Relations (ER), Disciplinary and Grievance accredited and experienced in design of ER plans such that employees are engaged in the sharing of business information and consulted in business change as appropriate.
Keep abreast of changes in employment legislation and ensure practical application in the workplace.

Technical Skills/ Competencies

Distinct Capabilities & skill set

Organizational Diagnosis
Influencing, coaching and facilitation
Transformational change management
Commercial management
Delivery management

Professional Technical capability & skill set

Employee Relations
Reward Management
Performance Consulting & Development Management
Talent Management
Employee Communications
Organizational Development
Leadership Culture
Resourcing
Diagnosis Training and Development Planning

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Human and Social Studies (Required)