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September 12, 2024

Sanlam

Johannesburg

OTHER


Senior Human Capital Business Partner

Who are we?
Glacier by Sanlam brings together leading experts and respected financial services companies to meet clients’ investment needs. We deliver focused investment services through specialist teams, partner with acclaimed financial intermediaries and pride ourselves on our superior products and solutions and high quality service. We offer a comprehensive range of investment solutions, designed to assist in the creation and preservation of wealth. Our offering encompasses local investments, including fixed term investments and investments with guarantees, international investments, retirement saving solutions, and retirement income solutions. While each solution has its own distinct purpose, they all share the world-class quality and commitment that have come to distinguish Glacier.
What will you do?
Job purpose
The Senior HCBP will work with the leadership team of a defined business area and the Group Human Capital team to implement the Group Human Capital strategy, to ensure that the business executes on their people agenda.

Key Outcomes

Supports leadership team on people issues
  • Translates business requirements into effective HC practices delivering people solutions aligned to the objectives for the business area
  • Influences leadership around people agenda and issues

Owns talent management for the business area
  • Builds leadership competence through coaching and guides line management around people processes
  • Identifies the immediate and long-term talent issues that impact the area and put appropriate plans in place to address
  • Agree suitable strategies to ensure talent pipelines are in place at leadership, technical and operational levels to meet the performance and growth objectives of the business area

Manages Talent Acquisition
  • Identify critical and scarce skills for business unit and agree strategies with all relevant COE’s (e.g. Talent acquisition, L&D &Total Rewards) to ensure appropriate pipelines over short and longer term.

Helps to shape the culture
  • Ensures that values and leadership standards are communicated and understood at all levels in business area
  • Helps the business area establish and maintain high levels of employee engagement by clarifying the levels of employee engagement and partners with the business to develop solutions to address these

Delivers Key HR initiatives as the key interface
  • Identifies projects and HR initiatives in line with business area needs
  • Partner with key stakeholders to ensure that all HC projects are appropriately communicated

Improves the overall people effectiveness of the business area
  • Implements all people processes and practices and ensure that they are legally compliant and fairly applied
  • Acts as first line of contact for any employee relations issues ensuring all risks are managed within the framework of best practice and all relevant legislation

Driving the transformation agenda
  • Support business in developing their EE plan (including numerical targets and AA actions)
  • Ensure execution of all initiatives in line with the BU EE Plan

Facilitates reward processes
Manages learning and development implementation

Qualifications and Experience
  • Degree or Diploma with 6 to 8 years related experience or qualified by extensive experience
  • Strategic Planning
  • Drives transformation and change organisational design and development
  • Risk and Governance Management
  • Leading others and resources management
  • A strong understanding of HR legislation and requirements, and the ability to apply the relevant legislation in the work environment
What will make you successful in this role?
Qualification and Experience
Degree or Diploma with 3 to 5 years human resources experience, or qualified by extensive experience.
Knowledge and Skills
HR Consulting and Solutions orientation
Data analysis and interpretation and trend analysis within complex business environment
Business understanding
Complex HR Support
Personal Attributes
Courage - Contributing through others
Manages complexity - Contributing through others
Ensures accountability - Contributing through others
Plans and aligns - Contributing through others
Build a successful career with us
We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as Mi Way and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Core Competencies
Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
Customer focus - Contributing through others
Drives results - Contributing through others
Being resilient - Contributing through others
Collaborates - Contributing through others
Turnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.

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