Principal Accountabilities
General
Provide comprehensive HR services to the businesses and engender an East Africa identity.
Drive the HR and People agenda for effective resource and business planning for both territories.
Influence for results as an active member of the African Senior Leadership Team
Develop and implement a Learning and Development programme, including the delivery of innovative L&D solutions.
Travel regularly and frequently as needed to various locations in Africa to ensure HR service is delivered to meet business needs.
Work closely with business heads to convert plans to actions and deliver to meet needs
Actively engage with Line Managers and staff to influence behaviours and facilitate organisation change
Proactively manage employee relations issues to enhance the employer/employee relationship
Develop and manage HR budgets as appropriate
Manage and contribute to regional, African and global HR projects as required.
Actively manage and coach the East African HR team members
Relationships
Develop and maintain effective working relationships with key business stakeholders in order to understand business issues and priorities.
Develop effective working relationships with the sector Finance Directors/Controllers so as to understand the financial and commercial issues of the business.
Establish a reputation for being credible, reliable and for getting things done.
Develop effective working relationships with colleagues in central and regional HR functions as necessary including the International Mobility Team, Reward Consultants and L&D Consultants.
Benchmark with peer group HR professionals in the region to keep abreast with current practices.
Develop and manage relationships with supply chain partners as appropriate to gain maximum value from such relationships.
Requirements
A Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline.
Advanced standing and Professional Membership of an appropriate HR Institution
Demonstrable progressive HR experience at senior level in a complex professional services environment
Proven experience and expertise in implementing HR Systems and processes.
Experience working in a multi-cultural environment.
Able to manage the complexity of delivering to meet business needs and doing so within the East African HR Policy framework.
Experience in planning, managing and successfully delivering on a large change project involving numerous stakeholders.
Grounded commercial understanding of how the business works
Personal style and magnetism enabling influence when communicating, presenting and writing.
Independent and confident and able to challenge with credibility.
Discrete and trusted when offering advice.
MEA experience will be beneficial as would successful experience working in a multi-cultural environments.
You will need to:
Be resilient and able to adapt to the fast rate of change.
Be open to others and to uncertainty
Maintain an engaging leadership style
Assert independent views and challenge when appropriate.
Work for the overall good of the Company (rather than through silo thinking)
Encourage and influence the behaviours of others to adopt a collaborative style
