HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER urgently wanted: APPLY HERE
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Full-time, Permanent
The primary focus of this role is to act as the key HR contact for the relevant practice groups/departments in Johannesburg and provide generalist Human Resources support services in compliance with the relevant legislation and firm’s policies and procedures.
Day to day operations and business partnering
Manage the end-to-end employee life cycle.·
Act as a trusted adviser and sounding board for all senior leaders and employees. Working closely with fee earner and business services departments to understand how HR can support their people and operational priorities.
Provide HR leadership and expertise on a wide range of generalist issues, working with Centres of Expertise (Reward, Recruitment, International Mobility, Operations, Analytics and Projects), where relevant. This includes resource planning, talent management and succession planning.
Work alongside and influence senior leaders and business service leaders to improve business performance by challenging and encouraging change in existing working practices and behaviours.
Influence and support the various change management initiatives underway across the firm and work with senior leaders to communicate any organisational change to the business as appropriate.
Coach senior leaders to deliver their strategic and operational objectives.
Employee relations
Provide expert guidance and support to ensure all employee issues are resolved, with the emphasis on building excellent relationships and instilling trust.
Provide leaders and staff based in the office with a first point of contact for HR issues and involves the wider global HR team and local advisers as necessary.
Within the office, oversee the successful implementation of new employment policies and practices and proactively identifies changes and improvements for the future.
Undertake complex disciplinary and grievance procedures and flexible working requests.
Ensure that line management is kept informed of changes to the interpretation and application of disciplinary procedures necessitated by Labour Court or Labour Tribunal decisions.
Resourcing
Oversee resourcing plans for all roles, working with the UK recruitment team and liaising with local recruitment agencies to provide cost efficient and effective recruitment solutions.
Oversee international and client secondments.
Work with the Business Finance team to monitor utilisation and capacity and prepare headcount plans and support budget processes.
Project work
Support and deliver projects aligned to our people strategy.
Engage the relevant stakeholders across the office to ensure project deliverables are met.
Work closely with peers and senior leaders on global or firm-wide strategic projects e.g. Diversity and Inclusivity.
Reward
Oversee the delivery and communication of talent, moderation, performance review, and salary review processes for relevant Johannesburg teams in conjunction with the Reward team
Learning and development
Promote learning and development options to ensure identified development needs for them or their teams are met.
Support HR colleagues through knowledge-sharing.
Facilitate inductions.
Conduct personal development sessions – either direct delivery or using local trainers.
Work with L&D colleagues around the network
Promote a feedback culture.
Encourage the use of the Internal Coaching Faculty to deliver high performance.
SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND QUALIFICATIONS
A minimum of 5 years’ generalist experience with proven experience of operating at Manager/Business Partner level, although those with less or more experience will be considered, provided they can demonstrate the core skills and experience required for the role.
Strong knowledge of South African labour Law and diversity related legislation including BBBEE.
Experience of running employee relations cases autonomously.
Able to demonstrate has been key decision maker in relation to complex HR and employee relations issues, recommending commercial solutions and guidance in approach.
Strong influencing and negotiating skills.
Ability to influence without the need for direct authority.
Strong internal client service focus and client relationship management skills.
Proven ability exercising judgement and discretion on queries related to policies and the general operations of the business.
Good knowledge of employee relations process particularly in respect to performance management.
PC literate (Microsoft Office suite).
GROUP / TEAM
Alternative Legal Services
GROUP / TEAM DESCRIPTION
The Alternative Legal Services business delivers high quality, cost-efficient legal services for document or information-intensive, defined process work.
The team works in a complementary and seamless way, offering a combination of legal expertise, process efficiency and client technology solutions to our clients.
The key products and services of our Alternative Legal Services business include document review, regulatory claims assessment, due diligence, verification commercial contracts, funds’ repapering, client technology services (including advisory and document review software) and asset management for real estate clients.
ROLE TYPE
Business Services
CONTRACT TYPE
Permanent
WORKING PATTERN
Full Time
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
We aim to have a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus, and highly engaged people are our differentiator and where we celebrate the uniqueness of our people. Our firm is made up of people with a range of experience and backgrounds. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means our people feel valued and able to perform at their best by being their authentic selves at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling engaged.
Herbert Smith Freehills
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