People and Culture Business Partner

• Be a trusted consultant to the business, to develop and implement the People and Culture business strategy in line with Collinson strategy and the operational goals of the allocated business units
• Be an advocate and support the ‘One Collinson’ concept to help develop a group identity and sense of belonging for our colleagues
• Provide advice and support to managers and staff on a wide range of people and culture issues including best practise, employment legislation and ensure people related legal and compliance issues are managed effectively and aligned with the overall P & C strategy
• Support on-going change management activity within your divisions and taken ownership in relevant consultations where necessary
• Create and facilitate delivery of the strategic people plans and aid managers to deliver on their business objectives by ensuring the optimum plans are in place and being worked through
• Support leaders on workforce planning and organisation design, restructuring, mergers and acquisition activity
• Act as the guardian for supporting the timely delivery of key business process including , succession planning, colleague engagement survey and career development, talent management and the development of senior level business objectives
• Deliver assigned projects with quality to timeline with good communication and collaboration across the relevant audience/sponsors and stakeholders
• Identify processes for improvement within the People and Culture function and assist with solutions to further enhance the P&C reputation across the Group
• Facilitation of Performance and Calibration process which drives a high-performance culture
• Creation of Insight/Analytics and recommendations into People and Culture and the strategic workforce plans and actions
• Support D&I agenda working with the D&I Lead to create targets, plans and priorities to improve D&I across the function
• Handle mediations and employee disputes
• Collaborate with Global BP’s and senior stakeholders across all business divisions to ensure compliance and alignment
• Chairing disciplinary hearings
• CCMA representation including objection of con-arbs and legal representation
• Manage any disputes pertaining to the employment relationship
• Support senior leaders with labour related matters
• Ensure adherence to labour legislation of BCEA, Employment Equity, LRA, Skills Development Levies Act, and POPI Act
• Work closely with the P&C Operations Operations Coordinators

• Strong commercial awareness
• Ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels and influence senior stakeholders
• Ability to lead by example in challenging situations and think objectively and strategically to build organisational effectiveness
• Essential to have proven experience and working knowledge of BCEA
• Hold a full generalist remit including employee relations, succession, restructuring, as well as other people and culture projects
• Experience or exposure, facilitating performance and talent calibration processes
• Comfortable presenting to groups and facilitating workshops
• Able to present recommendations in a clear compelling format appropriate to the situation
• Able to balance the commercials of the business whilst up-holding Collinson values
• Able to work in ambiguous or changing situations and prioritise own work
• Experience of being able to implement projects whilst maintaining BAU to high standard

Desirable to have experience of another specialist area